Zoya Tajikova

Zoya Mikhailovna Tajikova (born September 14, 1935) is a Tajik musicologist.

Zoya Tajikova was born on September 14, 1935 in Dushanbe, then part of the Soviet Union. She graduated from the Tashkent Conservatory in 1959 and was elected a member of the Composers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1963. She earned a PhD in 1977; her dissertation was “The Vocal Culture of Tajiks”. She was a research fellow at the Tajik Academy of Sciences from 1980 to 1996.

Her research focuses on traditional music of Tajikstan, especially folk songs from the Zaravshon River region and Bukahrian Jews.

Because of the Tajikistani Civil War, she emigrated to the United States in 1996.