Irina Chudinova graduated from Saint Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatoire as a composer. She defended a PhD dissertation on the subject “Church Music Culture of Saint Petersburg”.

Irina Chudinova worked as a teacher of theory and history of music at the Glinka Choir Capella of Saint Petersburg, then as a lecturer at Saint Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatoire (a specialist course of history and theory of church music). Currently I. Chudinova is a senior researcher at the Russian Institute for the History of the Arts.

Her research interests are music in church statute, Greek-Slavic connections in the music of monasteries, listening and sound creation in Orthodox ascetics. Irina Chudinova is the author of two monographs: “Time of Voicelessness: Music in Monastery Statute” (2004) and “Singing, Bells, the Ritual: Topography of Church Music Culture in Saint Petersburg” (1994), and of over 50 articles.