PH.D., Senior Lecturer, Department of Music and Methods of Teaching Music, Penza State University.
Irina A. Matveeva graduated from the Voronezh State Academy of Arts in 2007, specializing in Ethnomusicology. In 2013, she defended her Ph.D. thesis on "Traditional musical culture of the Sredne-Sura districts of the Penza region (on the issue of identifying a regional substrate in the song style)" at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky. Since 2007, she has worked at the Penza College of Music named after A.A. Arkhangelsky. She has the highest qualification category. Since 2022, she has been working at the Department of Music and Methods of Teaching Music, Faculty of Pedagogy, Psychology and Social Sciences, Penza State University. She takes part in All-Russian and International scientific conferences. Active collection work began in 2002 – villages of Penzensky, Bessonovsky, Luninsky, Issinsky, Nikolsky, Kamensky, Kamensky, Zemetchinsky, Mokshansky, Lopatinsky, Tamalinsky districts of Penza region were visited for the purpose of recording musical and ethnographic material. The research covered a wide range of folk rituals and holidays, religious rites, numerous examples of song and instrumental folklore, folk choreography were recorded. With the direct participation of I. A. Matveeva, several reconstructions of calendar and family-everyday rituals were completed.