Pauline Fairclough

Pauline Fairclough specialises in Soviet musical culture, and has published widely on Shostakovich and musical life under Stalinism. Her last book is a biography of the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (Reaktion, 2019) which was listed in the 'best music titles of 2019' by BBC Music Magazine, and she was awarded the Women's Forum Book Prize by the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies for her book Classics for the Masses: Shaping Soviet Musical Identity Under Lenin and Stalin (Yale, 2016).

She has edited several collections: 1917 and Beyond: Continuity, Rupture and Memory in Russian Music (with Philip Bullock, MHRA, 2019), The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich (with David Fanning, Cambridge University Press, 2008), Shostakovich Studies 2 (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Twentieth Century Music and Politics: Essays in memory of Neil Edmunds (Ashgate, 2012).

Pauline is an experienced public speaker and regularly delivers talks, workshops and pre-concert lectures for media, festivals and orchestras.