Nastasia Khrushcheva is a Russian composer, pianist, and musicologist. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of History of Foreign Music of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, member of the Union of Composers of Russia, and Ph.D. in History of Arts. She is a winner of the Youth Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg (2012), the Pythian Games Composer Competition (Interesting Cinema project, 2014), the St. Petersburg Theatre Prize Breakthrough (2015), special awards of ZIL Cultural Center (Moscow, 2016). In 2020, she was listed in Sobaka magazine’s Top 50 Famous People of St. Petersburg. She is a multiple Golden Mask Award nominee (2018 to 2020) for her theatre collaborations. Nastasia has written music for more than thirty theatre performances, including productions of the BDT and the Alexandrinsky Theatre. Her symphonic music has been performed by the conductors Fabio Mastrangelo, Ilya Ioff, Fedor Lednev, Alim Shakhmametyev, Alexei Nyaga, and Mikhail Agrest. The composer’s symphonic and chamber music has been released on Melodiya and Fancy Music. She is an author of the monograph Metamodernism in Music and Around It (Moscow: RIPOL–Classic, 2020), for which she was awarded the Sergei Kuryokhin Prize in the category Best Text on Contemporary Art (2020).