Кирилл Мошков — музыкальный журналист, писатель, музыкант, главный редактор журнала «Джаз.Ру». В активе: журналистское образование (МГУ им. Ломоносова), десять лет на сцене в качестве музыканта, шесть летработы в прямом эфире на независимых радиостанциях. На нынешней работе («Джаз.Ру») с 1998. Изучение мировой джазовой сцены осуществляет путём поездок на музыкальные фестивали, джазоведческие конференции и симпозиумы в Европе, Северной Америке, на Ближнем Востоке, в Центральной Азии, Китае и Японии. Среди результатов — книги нон-фикшн: «Индустрия джаза в Америке» (2008, расширенное переиздание 2013), «Великие люди джаза» (2009, двухтомное переиздание 2012 и 2018), «Блюз. Введение в историю» (три издания: 2010, 2014, 2018), «Российский джаз» (двухтомник 2013), десятки публикаций в американской и европейской музыкальной прессе, сотни выложенных в сеть авторских подкастов о джазе, лекционный курс по истории джаза в РГГУ (с 2012), выступления в качестве ведущего многочисленных джазовых фестивалей и концертов (с 1998 по всей России, от Архангельска и Санкт-Петербурга до Новосибирска, Томска и Красноярска - всего более 25 городов), члена жюри джазовых конкурсов (с 2002) и автора лекций по истории и сегодняшнему дню джазового искусства в России (с 2013 - Москва, Архангельск, Вологда, Воронеж, Краснодар, Красноярск, Пенза, Ростов-на-Дону, Санкт-Петербург, Тула, Киров и др.) и за её пределами (Италия, Кыргызстан, Норвегия, США, Украина, Финляндия, Эстония, Япония). Активно работает над развитием Центра исследования джаза в Ярославле — де-факто музея российского джаза, соучредителем которого является с 2011 г. Другие занятия: автор ряда романов в жанре научной фантастики.
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Kirill "Cyril" Moshkow was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1968. Enrolled in the Moscow State University's Journalism program in 1984 and, having taken a brief break for mandatory military service, remained at the Journalism department (specializing in TV journalism) until 1991. The eventful history of post-Soviet Russia and its promptly growing mass media and entertainment markets made a great impact on Cyril's career: in 1990-1998, he used to work as a TV reporter, a music festival producer, a security guard, a news agency editor, a rock group musician, a radio station host, a newspaper columnist, a radio station program director, and again as a TV reporter. In 1998 he joined Jazz.Ru, Russia's leading Web conglomerate dedicated to jazz music, as a managing editor. Besides writing a good deal of articles for the weekly jazz online magazine inside Jazz.Ru, Cyril took on to write extensively for numerous Russian printed publications - daily newspapers (Izvestia), weekly general interest and entertainment magazines (The Weekly, Afisha, TimeOut Moscow) and monthly music magazines (Play, Stereo&Video, Audio&Video Review, Salon AV), and joined Chicago-based DownBeat, the oldest existing jazz magazine in the world, as their contributor in Russia since 2000.
In 2002, Jazz.Ru was awarded the National Internet Award of Russia as the Music Website of the Year.
In late 2006, Jazz.Ru launched the first printed Jazz magazine in post-Soviet Moscow. The magazine, titled simply Jazz.Ru, was presented at a release party at the Moscow House of Journalists in December, 2006. After several pilot issues in 2007, Jazz.Ru Magazine (full-color, thick paper, 68 pages) switched to seven-issues-a-year mode. Cyril Moshkow serves as the magazine's both Publisher and Editor; the Jazz.Ru team also does not give up the Web portal, continuing service to its 10,000 strong online community.
From 1991 to 2008, Cyril Moshkow also taught Music Journalism at the Moscow State University. Since 2012, he is teaching a Jazz History course at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. Since September, 2014, Moshkow resumed his position of Music Journalism lecturer at the Moscow State University.
His teaching experience also includes guest lectures at the New York University (Roots of Popular Music, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, New York University, New York, NY) in 2000, 2001, 2005, and 2007, and at the University of Idaho (Mass media in Russia, for School of Communication, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID) in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2007.
Cyril Moshkow also gave lectures at the University of Idaho in February, 2006 ("Jazz in Russia", within the program of Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival,) and 2007 (School of Journalism,) participated in the University of Idaho symposium "Jazz Invades Europe" (February, 2007) with the lecture "Jazz in Soviet Russia: the First Fifty Years (1922-1972)", and spoke to the audience of Jazz Journalist Association members and jazz community activists at the New School University Jazz Program (New York, NY) during the February 27, 2007 JJA's Jazz Matters Series panel discussion "Jazz From Afar".

In 2007, Moshkow took part in the first-ever worldwide jazz journalists conference, Jazz in Global Imagination, organized by Columbia University's Jazz Studies Center and the Jazz Journalists Association. Cyril's "Somewhere Over Nine Minutes", reflections on the conference could be read in Jazz Notes, published by JJA.
Since 2012, Cyril Moshkow is a member and, since 2014, coordinator of Europe Jazz Media, an informal ring of European jazz periodicals.

In 2012, Cyril Moshkow contributed a chapter on the history of jazz in Eastern Europe for Pearson's Discover Jazz, ed. by John E. Jasse, Ted Lathrop.

In 2017, Cyril Moshkow contributed a chapter on the history of jazz in Russia for the forthcoming book The History of European Jazz - The Music, Musicians and Audience in Context, ed. by Francesco Martinelli - scheduled for release in 2018 by Equinox Publishing.

Below is a list of Cyril Moshkow's non-fiction books in written in Russian:

• "The Blues. Introduction to the History", by Cyril Moshkow
  St.Petersburg, Planet of Music, 2010, second edition 2014
  ISBN 9785919380030
  377 pages, hardcover
  Simply, the first Russian popular introduction to the blues history, based on both the life stories of those who sing the blues, and the business sagas of the labels and producers who presented the blues to the American market
  


• "The Jazz Greats", compiled and edited by Cyril Moshkow
  St.Petersburg, Planet of Music, 2009 (736 pages, hardcover)
  Second edition: two volumes, 2012, 667+644 pages, hardcover
  ISBN 9785811414048, 9785919380733
  Eighty-nine (one hundred and forty-five in the second edition!) life stories of jazz musicians, as told by 14 Jazz.Ru Magazine's leading writers in essays and interviews with the artists, edited and compiled by one of the writers, magazine's editor, Cyril Moshkow
  


• "Jazz Industry In America", by Cyril Moshkow
  St.Petersburg, Planet of Music, 2009; enhanced edition, 2013; ISBN 9785811408528
  510 pages (second edition: 638 pages), hardcover
  Nominated for Russia's Steppenwolf Independent Music Award in 2009, this pioneering book tells the Russian reader the story of how the jazz sector of American music industry lives, works, and struggles, in more than 50 in-person interviews with U.S. jazz educators, producers, record label executives, researchers, critics, radio presenters, club owners and festival organizers.
  The 2008 edition was sold out, and in 2013, Moshkow released the second, enhanced edition, with a dozen new interviews added and sereral chapters completely rewritten, so that they would reflect the new, 2010s reality.