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Cyril Moshkow
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About Me
Kirill “Cyril” Moshkow was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1968. Enrolled in the Moscow State University's Journalism program in 1984 and, having taken a brief break for mandatory military service, remained at the Journalism department (specializing in TV journalism) until 1991. The eventful history of post-Soviet Russia and its promptly growing mass media and entertainment markets made a great impact on Cyril's career: in 1990-1998, he worked as a TV reporter, a music festival producer, a security guard, a news agency editor, a rock group bass player, a radio station host, a newspaper columnist, a radio station program director, and again as a TV reporter. In 1998 he joined Jazz.Ru, Russia's first Web medium dedicated to jazz music, as a managing editor. Besides writing a good deal of articles for the weekly jazz online magazine inside Jazz.Ru, Cyril took on to write extensively for numerous Russian printed general interest publications and music magazines . In 2000, he also joined Chicago-based DownBeat, the oldest existing jazz magazine in the world, as their contributor in Russia. In 2002, Jazz.Ru was awarded the National Internet Award of Russia as the Music Website of the Year. In late 2006, Jazz.Ru launched the first printed Jazz magazine in post-Soviet Moscow. After 2020, Jazz.Ru returned to Web-only format. From 1991 to 2008, Cyril Moshkow also taught Music Journalism at the Moscow State University. In 2012-2016, he taughta Jazz History course at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. Since September, 2019, Moshkow is teaching Jazz and Popular Music History at the Jazz Academy in Moscow. His teaching experience also includes guest lectures at the New York University (Roots of Popular Music, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, New York University, New York, NY) in 2000, 2001, 2005, and 2007, and at the University of Idaho (Mass media in Russia, for School of Communication, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID) in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2007. He also lectured at the University of Idaho in 2006 (”Jazz in Russia”, within the program of Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival,) and 2007 (School of Journalism,) participated in the University of Idaho symposium “Jazz Invades Europe” (February, 2007) with the lecture “Jazz in Soviet Russia: the First Fifty Years (1922-1972)”, and spoke to the audience of Jazz Journalist Association members and jazz community activists at the New School University Jazz Program (New York, NY) during the February 27, 2007 JJA's Jazz Matters Series panel discussion “Jazz From Afar”. In 2007, Moshkow took part in the first-ever worldwide jazz journalists conference, Jazz in Global Imagination, organized by Columbia University's Jazz Studies Center and the Jazz Journalists Association. In 2012, Moshkow contributed a chapter on the history of jazz in Eastern Europe for Pearson's Discover Jazz, ed. by John E. Jasse, Ted Lathrop. In 2017, Cyril also contributed a massive chapter on the history of jazz in Russia for the Equinox book The History of European Jazz - The Music, Musicians and Audience in Context, ed. by Francesco Martinelli. He published several books on jazz and Black music in Russian. His latest book, however, is in English: Jazz 100: a Century of Jazz in Russia (2026).
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This page was last updated on 2026-08-24.
