Staff profile
Professor Patrick Zuk
Professor of Russian Cultural Studies and Music
PhD (Dunelm), BA (NUI)

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Professor of Russian Cultural Studies and Music in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures | ||
Co-Director (Arts and Humanities) in the Institute of Advanced Study | +44 (0) 191 33 44405 |
Biography
Patrick Zuk is a specialist in Russian and Soviet music and European cultural history. His publications include Nikolay Myaskovsky: A Composer and His Times, which won a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award for 2022, and the co-edited collection (with Marina Frolova-Walker) Russian Music Since 1917, which was issued in the Proceedings of the British Academy series published by Oxford University Press. His research has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, and the Wellcome Trust. He is currently writing a monograph exploring the role of traumatic experience in shaping the styles and aesthetic orientations of musical modernism. He has been awarded a two-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship commencing in May 2024 for his next project, 'The composer in the European imagination: 1830-1970'.
Professor Zuk is Director (Arts and Humanities) of Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study.
He welcomes enquiries from postgraduate research students working on topics germane to his research interests - music and cultural life in Russia and Central/Eastern Europe; artistic modernism; trauma studies; and censorship.
Publications
Authored book
- Zuk, Patrick (2021). Nikolay Myaskovsky: A Composer and His Times. The Boydell Press.
- Zuk, Patrick. (2006). Raymond Deane. Dublin: Field Day Publications.
Chapter in book
- Zuk, Patrick (2020). Prokofiev and the Development of Soviet Composition in the 1920s and 1930s. In Rethinking Prokofiev. Guillaumier, Christina & Langdon, Rita Oxford University Press. 19-37.
- Zuk, Patrick (2018). Hans Keller: the making of an anti-critic. In British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950. Dibble, Jeremy & Horton, Julian Boydell & Brewer. 328-343.
- Zuk, Patrick (2018). L'ami inconnu: Nataliya Esposito and Ivan Bunin. In Music Preferred: Essays in Musicology, Cultural History and Analysis in Honour of Harry White. Byrne-Bodley, Lorraine Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag. 371-387.
- Zuk, Patrick (2016). Semanitka gorya v finale Shestoy sinfonii Nikolaya Myaskovskogo [The semantics of grief in Nikolay Myaskovsky's Sixth Symphony]. In Dvadtsatïy vek. Muzïka voynï i mira: Materialï mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii [The Twentieth Century. Music of War and Peace. Vlasova, Yekaterina, Zenkin, Konstantin & Karachevskaya, Maria Moscow: Progress-Traditsiya. 231-238.
- Zuk, Patrick (2016). Razmïshleniya o stilistike Myaskovskogo posle 1932 goda. In Liber amicorum Lyudmile Kovnatskoy. Manulkina, Ol'ga, Ader, Lidia & Drozdetskaya, Inna Saint Petersburg: BiblioRossika. 290-299.
- Zuk, Patrick (2014). The ‘serial’ works of A.J. Potter. In Irish Musical Analysis. Cox, Gareth & Horton, Julian Dublin: Four Courts Press. 202-222.
- Zuk, Patrick (2014). Introduction: An Irish Treatise on the Lisztian Tradition of Pianism. In Tradition and Craft in Piano-Playing, by Tilly Fleischmann. Fleischmann, Ruth & Buckley, John Dublin: Carysfort Press. xvii-xxii.
- Zuk, Patrick (2013). Romansy N. Myaskovskogo na slova Z. Gippius [Nikolay Myaskovsky's settings of Zinaida Hippius]. In Sankt-Peterburgskaya konservatoriya v mirovom muzykal'nom prostranstve: kompozitorskiye, ispolnitel'skiye, nauchniye shkoly 1862-2012. Dertyaryova, N. & Braginskaya, N. Izdatel'stvo politekhnicheskogo universiteta (Sankt-Peterburg). 218-223.
- Zuk, Patrick (2013). Musical modernism in the mirror of the Prokofiev-Myaskovsky correspondence. In Russian Emigré Culture: Conservatism or Evolution?. Flamm, Christoph, Keazor, Henry & Marti, Roland Cambridge Scholar Press. 229-244.
Edited book
- Zuk, Patrick & Frolova-Walker, Marina (2017). Russian Music Since 1917: Reappraisal and Rediscovery. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford University Press / British Academy.
- Cox, Gareth (2010). Seóirse Bodley. Field Day Music. Dublin: Field Day Publications/Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame.
- Dibble, Jeremy (2010). Michele Esposito. Field Day Music. Dublin: Field Day.
- de Barra, Seamas (2006). Aloys Fleischmann. Field Day Music. Dublin: Field Day Publications/Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Journal Article
- Zuk, Patrick (2019). Boris Asaf'yev in 1948. Journal of the Royal Musical Association 144(1): 123-156.
- Zuk, Patrick (2018). Music as post-traumatic discourse: Nikolay Myaskovsky’s Sixth Symphony. Arts & Humanities in Higher Education 17(1): 104-118.
- Zuk, Patrick (2014). Nikolay Myaskovsky and the ‘regimentation’ of Soviet composition a reassessment. Journal of Musicology 31(3): 354-393.
- Zuk, Patrick (2012). Nikolay Myaskovsky and the Events of 1948. Music and Letters 93(1): 61-85.
- Zuk, Patrick (2010). Translating National Identity into Music: Representations of 'Traditional Ireland' in A. J. Potter's Television Opera Patrick. Études irlandaises 35(2): 81-97.
- Zuk, Patrick. (2004). Words for Music Perhaps? Irishness, Criticism and the Art Tradition. Irish Studies Review 12(1): 11-29.