IAS co-director Professor Patrick Zuk (MLAC) has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Romanian National University of Music, Bucharest (NUMB), in recognition of his pioneering contribution to scholarship on music and cultural life in Eastern Europe.
The conferring ceremony, presided over by NUMB's Rector Professor Diana Moș, took place on Tuesday 29 October, during Professor Zuk’s recent visit to Bucharest to participate in research activities at the university.
The eulogy acknowledged his ‘literary talent’ and intellectual leadership of efforts to produce revised histories of artistic life in Soviet Union and the former Eastern bloc after the fall of communism, as well as his support for key initiatives in Romanian musicology. Zuk’s recent monograph ‘Nikolay Myaskovsky: A Composer and His Times’ (2022) was praised as an ‘exemplary’ model of revisionist scholarship based on painstaking archival research. NUMB (formerly the Bucharest Conservatoire) is one of the largest and oldest third-level music institutions in Eastern Europe. Professor Zuk is the first UK-based scholar whom it has honoured in this way.
During his visit, Professor Zuk also delivered a lecture entitled ‘In (continued) Search of Wagner: Criticism and the Limits of Legitimate Interpretation’ on Thursday 31 October at New Europe College, the prestigious Romanian Institute of Advanced Study, as part of its programme of events for its thirtieth anniversary celebrations.
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