Marta (Marina) Andriasova (Kudryashova) is a Russian-born musicologist, living in New York City since 1979. She is a former Dozent of the Moscow Conservatory, a member of the American Musicological Society, a music producer, and a publisher (owner of IMMA Publishing Co., member of ASCAP).
Marta was born in 1941, Moscow, USSR, to a family of scientists. Her father, Leonid Vasilyevich Kudryashov (1910-1976), was a scholar-biologist, a Professor of the Moscow Michail Vasilyevich Lomonosov State University. Her mother, Irina Veniaminovna Lebedeva (1914-1985), was a chemistry teacher. Her grandfather, Veniamin Alexandrovich Lebedev, was a scholar-chemist, who was falsely accused, arrested, and killed as an "Enemy of the Soviet State" during Joseph Stalin's regime, and later, after Stalin's death, was found innocent.
Marta began to play piano at the age of five. She entered the Moscow Music School pre-Moscow Conservatory to study piano at the age of seven. Between the years of 1955-1959, she studied at the Music College pre-Moscow Conservatory. In 1958, still in the College, she entered the Moscow State University to study bio-chemistry, but decided to continue her music education at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1959, she entered the Moscow Conservatory; studied musicology with Professor Alexei Ivanovich Kandinsky (a nephew of the famous artist, Vasilii Kandinsky), analysis with Professors Victor Abramovich Zuckerman and Edisson Vasilievich Denisov, a famous Russian composer, polyphony with Professor Vladimir Vasilievich Protopopov, piano with Professor Logovinsky, music history with Professor Nadezhda Vasilievna Nikolaeva, and instrumentation with Professor Evgeny Petrovich Makarov.
In 1963, she got married to Iosif Andriasov, composer and philosopher, her colleague at Moscow Conservatory. They were together for 37 years, and had two children. In 1964, she graduated from the Conservatory with Honors, with a diploma research on "The Vocal Compositions by Mussorgsky". Between 1964-1966, she was a post-graduate student at the Conservatory, and wrote a dissertation "The Instrumental Works by Evgeney Golubev". Marta taught at the Central Music School pre-Moscow Conservatory, and at the Music Junior College; then at the Moscow Conservatory (department of Russian and Soviet Music and department of Music Theory at the Military Conductors division) until 1978. Her researches were published by “Muzika Press” and Moscow Conservatory publications.
In 1979, she immigrated to the USA with her husband and their daughter Maria. In 1980, their son, Arshak, was born in New York City. In the USA, Marta wrote many researches, including “The Six Concerti Armonici are returned to their genuine author, the great Italian composer-violinist Pietro Antonio Locatelli”. Two of these Concerti by Locatelli were performed by the San Francisco Student Philharmonic Orchestra, with the genuine author's name, Pietro Locatelli, in 2002. Marta Andriasova (Kudryashova) also has written numeous publicity notes to compositions of Iosif Andriasov for various orchestra, including the Denver Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and the Russian Federal Orchestra.
Marta is in the International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory, Cambridge, England (1998, 1999 and 2002 editions), and has won numerous awards, including the Fellowship from the Italian Government for Music research, Milan.
