Marat Ingeldeev is a music journalist, critic and researcher based in London.
His writing and reviews have appeared in The Quietus, VAN Magazine, Seismograf, Positionen, Eurozine, Bachtrack, Tempo, Muzykalnaya Zhizn and elsewhere. His interviewees span artists, composers and performers across music and sound art: Elaine Mitchener, Jürg Frey, Maddie Ashman, Johannes Kreidler, Juliet Fraser, GBSR Duo, Sergej Newski and Matthew Shlomowitz, amongst others. He has reported from Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Borealis Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Musik Installationen Nürnberg and Untwelving.
In 2026, Marat guest-edited a special issue of Positionen 147 and was a delegate at the Borealis Festival and Klang Festival. Between 2022 and 2024, he co-hosted violet snow, a podcast about new music in Russian, producing 43 episodes of discussions, specials and guest interviews. He took part in Words on Music, a critical writing workshop at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, in 2023. The previous year, he co-curated the charity concert Piano Music for Ukraine at Pushkin House.
As a researcher, Marat holds an MA in Music from Goldsmiths, University of London. His work applies aesthetics, cultural theory and philosophy to contemporary music, with a particular focus on metamodernism. He has presented at the RMA Conference, Gnesin Contemporary Music Week and ZIL Culture Centre.