Marat Ingeldeev is a music journalist, critic, researcher and performer based in London.

As a journalist, Marat covers music, culture and society. His writing has appeared in Bachtrack, VAN Magazine, Positionen, All About Jazz, Tempo, Muzykalnaya Zhizn, Stravinsky.online, Timetohear and Muzykalnaya Akademiya. He has interviewed leading figures in contemporary music and art, including Johannes Kreidler, Laurence Crane, Maia Urstad, Bryn Harrison, Juliet Fraser, Matthew Shlomowitz, Elaine Mitchener, Neil Luck, Sergej Newski, Elena Firsova and Elena Rykova. He regularly writes reviews of concerts, albums and festivals.

From 2022 to 2024 he co-hosted violet snow, a Russian-language podcast about new music, with Irina Sevastyanova. They produced 43 episodes, including themed discussions, specials and guest interviews. In May 2022, he co-curated the charity concert Piano Music for Ukraine at Pushkin House. He has also been involved in programming for Gnesin Contemporary Music Week.

In August 2023, he took part in the Words on Music programme at the Darmstadt Summer Course, led by Kate Molleson and Peter Meanwell. There he produced and hosted the podcast Talking Darmstadt, wrote Bridging the Channel: British new music in a post-Brexit Europe and created the audio mockumentary Rating Darmstadt.

As a researcher, Marat has presented at the RMA Conference, Gnesin Contemporary Music Week and ZIL Culture Centre. His work focuses on metamodernism in music and culture, aesthetics and philosophy of music, and interdisciplinary performance practices.

Marat also performs on piano and live electronics. He has appeared at venues and festivals including Southbank Centre, Cheltenham Music Festival, IKLECTIK, Arebyte Gallery, Sound Festival, Hundred Years Gallery, Reference Point and Teatro Baltazar Dias. He was a founding member of the New Maker Ensemble, a group focused on experimenting with new music and performance art. Together with Roxanna Albayati, he explores intersections of Iranian classical music, improvisation and live electronics.

Education:
2020 — MA Music @ Goldsmiths, University of London
2015 — BMus Music @ Goldsmiths, University of London
2009 — Moscow Jurgenson Music School