Philip Ross Bullock

Philip Ross Bullock is Professor of Russian Literature and Music at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Russian at Wadham College. He holds degrees in Modern Language from both Durham and Oxford, and held organ scholarships at both universities. Before taking up his present position in 2007, he taught at the University of Wales, Bangor, and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London, and he had held visiting fellowship at Princeton, Paris and Grenoble.

Philip has published widely on aspects of Russian culture from the eighteenth century to the present day, and he has a particular interest in the Russian song tradition. His most recent books are Pyotr Tchaikovsky (2016) and - as editor - Rachmaninoff and His World (2022). He particularly enjoys sharing his scholarship with wider audiences and regularly appears on BBC Radio 3. As well as his long-standing relationship with Oxford International Song Festival, he has written and lectured for organisations including Wigmore Hall, the Royal Opera, Garsington Opera, Grange Park Opera, and Welsh National Opera.

In 2023-24, he and Iain Burnside co-curated a series of recitals at Wigmore Hall devoted to Rachmaninov and his contemporaries, and in 2022, Philip was scholar-in-residence at the Bard Music Festival, devoted to 'Rachmaninov and His World'.

Updated September 2025