In Conversation with Art & Culture

Zsolt Bodoni is a Romanian artist, who experiments with a range of media in his paintings to create dimension. His latest venture are semi-transparent multi-layered works with light. In late 2021, hi…

Irina is from Moscow and takes much of her creative inspiration from Russian cultural references that she discusses in this episode, especially film, art, and literature. Irina got her MA in graphic …

Saffy talks about her research into the influence of literary legend Fyodor Dostoevsky on African American literature and the Blackness of Alexander Pushkin. Saffy talks about her favourite novels an…

This episode is about Music and War. While preparing I came across an mazing work by Brent Thomas Yorgason who wrote a dissertation on the subject in 1997 for Utah State University. I found it very i…

Jess is a Canadian born and raised, Elmira a Muscovite. Both currently reside in Vancouver and met for the first time when they became flatmates. Jess is an illustrator and Elmire a piano teacher and…

Many of Rita’s students remember her luminous nature, her laughter and positivity, which is very rare amongst music teachers. Often, too often teacher’s authority is based on fear, humiliation and su…

Listen in to Serian’s Russian journey, starting with her teaching post in Chelyabinsk leading her to dedicate years of study to the field of Russian cinema, particularly Soviet-era youth cinema and t…

In the conversation with classical cellist and life coach Tatiana Bejenari we try to find the way to carry on while the East and the West are in the state of a major conflict.

How can we eat, sleep…

This episode is about one of the greatest compositions of the 20th century - a piano concerto in G by French composer Maurice Ravel.

So why is it great ?

It is a known fact that Mozart could create…

Episode 5 of Talking music with Olga Jegunova podcast is about Stage fright or Performance anxiety. It is a common state of mind before or during performance and public speaking. Symptoms of it can v…

In this episode we will discover theory, mystery and beauty of Indian Classical music. Freny Nina will be playing sitar while talking about Raga and Dhrupad - the most important genres of Indian Clas…

This episode is all about tempo in music. How to define and interpret it? Who decides on the tempo : composer or performer? Do we practise with or without metronome?  You will learn about 4 main ways…

This week Lara interviews PhD student Anoushka Alexander-Rose about her research on one of Russia’s most well-known émigré authors: Vladimir Nabokov. Anoushka is looking into the themes of Jewishness…

This week Lara interviews Phil Cavendish of SSEES, UCL about Soviet and Russian film, though the conversation veers in wonderful directions, even leading to a comparison of Lady Gaga and Britney Spea…

Interviewer: Olga Jegunova Editor: Matylda Dymek Visual design: Christopher Moehring

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Tune in to this week’s episode of Kusochek to hear Lara interview Muscovite Denis Stolyarov, a PhD graduate of The Courtauld institute, London who is active in the contemporary art world and knows al…

This week Lara interviews Ieva Blazeviciute, a Lithuanian art director at Vice who has recently designed and published a photography book exploring the meaning of the label Post-Soviet and what this …

Talking music with Olga Jegunova

Editor: Matylda Dymek Visual designer: Christian Moehring Photo: Roman Drits Special thanks to Bernard Oppetit

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In this week's installment of Kusochek, Lara interviews Liudmila Tomanek, a chartered translator and PhD student of polyphony in translation. Tune in to hear about Liudmila's memories of the collapse…