Kiev Conservatory

Ukrainian National Academy of Music

The Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music (or Kiev Conservatory) is a Ukrainian state institution of higher music education. Its courses include postgraduate education.

History

The Kiev Conservatory was founded in 1913 at the Kiev campus of the Music College of the Russian Musical Society. The organization of the conservatory was spearheaded by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Glazunov, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The first directors were V. Pukhalsky (1913) and Reinhold Glière (1914–1920). In 1925, the lower years were separated from the conservatory to form a musical college, while the older classes became the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama Institute. Viktor Kosenko taught at both institutions.

In 1938, the conservatory received the Order of Lenin award. In 1940, the conservatory was named after P. Tchaikovsky. In 1995, the President of Ukraine elevated the conservatory's status, and renamed it the P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.

The conservatory occupies a building built in the 1890s as the Hotel Continental. The building was destroyed during World War II, but was rebuilt in 1955, at which point a concert hall was added (architects L. Katok and Ya. Krasny). It is located on Horodetsky street 1/3.

Professors

Theoretical faculty

Mykola Vilinsky

Vocal faculty

• Irina Vilinska
• Maryna Yehorycheva
• Mykola Kondratiuk

Piano faculty

• Liudmila Kasyanenko, piano
• Arseniy Kotlyarevsky, organ
• Olga Koviolova, piano
• Igor Ryabov, piano
• Galyna Bulybenko, organ

Orchestral Faculty

1. Strings

2. Wind

• Volodymyr Antonov, flute

3. Folk instruments

• Serhiy Bashtan, bandura
• Bobyr Andriy, bandura
• Mykola Davydov, bayan
• Volodymyr Kabachok, bandura

Alumni

Composers

• Oleksandr Bilash
• Lesia Dychko,
• Leonid Hrabovsky, 1959
• Ivan Karabyts, 1971
• Borys Lyatoshynsky,
• Igor Poklad, 1967
• Sergei Protopopov, 1921
• Levko Revutsky,
• Valentin Silvestrov,
• Yevhen Stankovych
• Franklin Pire,1996

Conductors

• Kurt Adler,
• Kirill Karabits,
• Wolodymyr Kolesnyk,

Singers

• Georges Baklanoff, operatic baritone
• Edgar Bastidas, 1995
• Dmytro Hnatyuk, 1951
• Evgeniya Miroshnichenko, 1957
• Vyacheslav Polozov, 1978
• Solomon Khromchenko, 1931
• Oksana Dyka, 2004

Pianists

• Alexander Brailowsky
• Vladimir Horowitz
• Anatole Kitain
• Valentina Lisitsa
• Herman Makarenko, 1986
• Leo Sirota
• Alexander Uninsky

Organists

• Paul Stetsenko, 1989

Bandurists

• Bobyr Andriy
• Larissa Burak
• Volodymyr Kushpet
• Victor Mishalow
• Kost Novytsky
• Andriy Omelchenko

External links

• Official site of the conservatory