Background
Anna Vadimovna Shalagina was born on May 11, 1959, in Tambov, Russian Federation.
Anna Vadimovna Shalagina was born on May 11, 1959, in Tambov, Russian Federation.
In 1985, Anna Vadimovna graduated from the Petrozavodsk branch of the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory.
Since 1995 Anna Vadimovna has been actively engaged in musical and publicist activities, covering the musical culture of Voronezh in the Central and local press. As a music journalist, she works as a correspondent for the newspaper "Kommuna", deputy editor of the newspaper "Voronezh muses". Anna Vadimovna has about two hundred newspaper publications devoted to music culture and education. In addition to these newspapers, she was published in the Voronezh magazines "Rise", "Koltsovsky square" and in the Central press - in "Russian music newspaper", "Music review", "Music Academy", and "Problems of music science".
In 2009 Anna Vadimovna joined the Voronezh organization of the Union of composers of the Russian Federation. For several decades, she has been sanctifying the creative life of the Voronezh Union of composers in the Central and local press, introducing readers to the events of the annual international festival "Consonance", anniversary concerts, conferences, and creative meetings with leading composers.
Also, Anna Vadimovna participated in the school-seminar of critics of the Opera theater in Saratov as part of the "XXII Sobinovsky music festival", where she made a report "musical culture of Voronezh", and was also a member of the jury of critics at the competition of vocalists. She has made presentations at international and all-Russian conferences: "Integration of Sciences as a methodological phenomenon of art education" (Voronezh, 2003); "Interaction of preset and improvisational factors of musical formation" (Voronezh, 2005); "Russian art in the world art process": Bolkhovitin readings (Voronezh, 2011).