Moscow Conservatory

Not to be confused with Moscow Conservatory Music College.

The Great Hall, the main performance auditorium

The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Russian: Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского) is a musical educational institution located in Moscow, Russia. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in musical performance and musical research. The conservatory offers various degrees including Bachelor of Music Performance, Master of Music and PhD in research.

History

It was co-founded in 1866 as the Moscow Imperial Conservatory by Nikolai Rubinstein and Prince Nikolai Troubetzkoy. It is the second oldest conservatory in Russia after the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was appointed professor of theory and harmony at its opening. Since 1940, the conservatory has borne his name.

Choral faculty

Prior to the October Revolution, the choral faculty of the conservatory was second to the Moscow Synodal School and Moscow Synodal Choir, but in 1919, both were closed and merged into the choral faculty. Some of the students now listed as being of the conservatory were in fact students of the Synodal School.

Great Hall

The renovation of the hall was completed in 2011.

Some notable graduates

• Valery Afanassiev (b. 1947) – pianist
• Nelly Akopian-Tamarina – pianist
• Ashot Ariyan (b. 1973) – composer and pianist
• Eduard Artemyev (b. 1937) – composer
• Vladimir Ashkenazy (b. 1937) – pianist, conductor
• Vladimir Bakaleinikov (1885-1953) – violist, composer, conductor
• Stanisław Barcewicz (1858-1929) – violinist
• Rudolf Barshai (1924-2010) – violist, conductor
• Dmitri Bashkirov (1931-2021) – pianist
• Yuri Bashmet (b. 1953) – violist, conductor
• Boris Berezovsky (b. 1969) – pianist
• Boris Berman (b. 1948) – pianist
• Lazar Berman (1930-2005) – pianist
• Vadim Borisovsky (1900-1972) – violist
• Anatoliy Brandukov (1859-1930) – cellist
• Alexander Chuhaldin (1892-1951)– violinist, conductor, composer
• Tish Daija (1926-2003) – Albanian composer
• Đặng Thái Sơn (b. 1958) – pianist
• Bella Davidovich (b. 1928) – pianist
• Nikolai Demidenko (b. 1955) – pianist
• Edison Denisov (1929-1996) – composer
• Vladimir Denissenkov (b. 1956) – accordionist
• Fyodor Druzhinin (1932-2007) – violist
• Youri Egorov (1954-1988) – pianist
• Samuil Feinberg (1890-1962) – pianist, composer
• Frank Fernandez (b. 1944) – pianist, composer
• Yakov Flier (1912-1977) – pianist
• Andrei Gavrilov (b. 1955) – pianist
• Misha Geller (1937-2007) – composer, violist
• Emil Gilels (1916-1985) – pianist
• Marina Goglidze-Mdivani (b. 1936) – pianist
• Alexei Gorokhov (1927-1999) – violinist, musicologist
• Vera Gornostayeva (1929-2015) – pianist
• Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931) – composer
• Maria Grinberg (1908-1978) – pianist
• Natalia Gutman (b. 1942) – cellist
• Rustem Hayroudinoff – pianist
• Andrej Hoteev (b. 1946) – pianist
• Waleed Howrani (b. 1948) – composer, pianist
• Rinat Ibragimov (1960-1920) – double bassist, conductor
• Valentina Igoshina (b. 1978) – pianist
• Konstantin Igumnov (1873-1948) – pianist
• Ilya Itin (b. 1967) – pianist
• Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904-1987) – composer, pianist
• Olga Kern (b. 1975) – pianist
• Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) – composer
• Yuri Kholopov (1932-2003) – musicologist
• Tikhon Khrennikov (1913-2007) – composer
• Igor Khudolei (1940-2001) – pianist
• Olga Kiun – pianist
• Leonid Kogan (1924-1982) – violinist
• Pavel Kogan (b. 1952) – violinist, conductor
• Evgeni Koroliov (b. 1949) – pianist
• Ivan Kotov (1950-1985) – bassist
• Vladimir Krainev (1944-2011) – pianist
• Gidon Kremer (b. 1947) – violinist
• Eduard Kunz (b. 1980) – pianist
• Ina Lange (1846-1930) – pianist; later music historian and writer
• Elisabeth Leonskaja – pianist
• Josef Lhévinne – pianist
• Rosina Lhévinne – pianist
• Dong-Hyek Lim – pianist
• Alexei Lubimov – pianist
• Nikolai Lugansky – pianist
• Radu Lupu – pianist
• Anna Saulowna Lyuboshits – cellist
• Dmitry Malikov – pianist, composer, singer
• Anna Malikova – pianist
• Yevgeny Malinin – pianist
• Alexander Malofeev - pianist
• Emanuil Manolov – pianist, flutist, conductor, composer
• Fuat Mansurov – conductor
• Denis Matsuev – pianist
• Nikolai Medtner – composer, pianist
• Victor Merzhanov – pianist
• Alexander Mogilevsky – violinist
• Roman Moiseyev – conductor
• Alexander Mosolov – pianist, composer
• Avni Mula – Albanian singer, composer
• Shoista Mullodzhanova – Shashmaqam singer
• Viktoria Mullova – violinist
• Sergey Musaelyan – pianist
• Lisa Nakazono-Węgłowska – pianist
• Alexandre Naoumenko – singer
• Anahit Nersesyan – pianist
• Heinrich Neuhaus – pianist
• Stanislav Neuhaus – pianist
• Tatiana Nikolayeva – pianist
• Dmitri Novgorodsky – pianist
• Lev Oborin – pianist
• David Oistrakh – violinist
• Alexander Osminin − pianist
• Aleksandra Pakhmutova – composer
• Dmitry Paperno – pianist
• Georgs Pelēcis – Latvian composer and musicologist
• Nikolai Petrov (1943-2011) – pianist
• Gregor Piatigorsky – cellist
• Mikhail Pletnev – pianist, composer, conductor
• Ivo Pogorelić – pianist
• Viktoria Postnikova – pianist
• Mikhail Press – violinist
• Sergei Rachmaninoff – pianist, composer
• Sviatoslav Richter – pianist
• Mstislav Rostropovich – cellist and conductor
• Gennady Rozhdestvensky – conductor
• Nikolai Sachenko (b. 1977) – violinist
• Aram Satian – composer
• Alexander Scriabin – composer and pianist
• Rodion Shchedrin – composer and pianist
• Alfred Schnittke – composer
• Valery Sigalevitch – pianist
• Tamriko Siprashvili – pianist
• Pyotr Slovtsov – tenor
• Viviana Sofronitsky – pianist
• Aleksandr Sokolov – Russian Minister of Culture
• Alexei Soutchkov – pianist
• Vladimir Spivakov – violinist, conductor
• Pavel Berman – violinist, conductor
• Steven Spooner – pianist
• Mykola Suk – pianist
• Yevgeny Svetlanov – conductor, pianist, composer
• Ivan Tasovac – pianist
• Marina Tchebourkina – organist, musicologist
• Tatiana Tessman – pianist
• Viktor Tretiakov – violinist
• Anna Tsybuleva – pianist
• Ibrahim Tukiqi – Albanian singer
• Pava Turtygina - composer, pianist
• Saša Večtomov – cellist
• Alexander Veprik – composer
• Anastasia Vedyakova - violinist and composer
• Eliso Virsaladze – pianist
• Oleg Volkov - pianist
• Mikhail Voskresensky – pianist
• Jacob Weinberg – pianist and composer
• Çesk Zadeja – Albanian composer
• Marina Yakhlakova – pianist
• Irina Zaritskaya – pianist
• Igor Zubkovsky – cellist
• Senya Son (b. 1951) – pianist, composer
• Serguei Kostiuchenko (b. 1965) – Belarusian conductor
• Larisa Sobol - pianist
• Dmitry Shishkin (b. 1992) - pianist
• Lorenzo Mazzamuto – violinist

Notable current professors

The Moscow Conservatory in 1940

• Yuri Bashmet – viola
• Andrei Diev – piano
• Andrei Eshpai – composition
• Sergey Girshenko – violin
• Vera Gornostayeva – piano
• Natalia Gutman – cello
• Alexei Lubimov – piano and historical keyboards
• Kirill Rodin – cello
• Natalia Shakhovskaya – cello
• Yuri Slesarev – piano
• Eliso Virsaladze – piano
• Mikhail Voskresensky – piano
• Irina Zhurina – voice

References

• The Moscow Conservatory. Information Booklet. Second Edition. Moscow, 2001. ISBN 5-89598-111-9.
• Moscow Conservatoire. Moscow, 1994. ISBN 5-86419-006-3.
• Moscow Conservatory: Traditions of Music Education, Art, and Science 1866–2006. Moscow: "Moskovskaya Konservatoriya" Publishing House, 2006.
• Loomis, George (18 April 2001), "Moscow's Great Hall Turns 100", International Herald Tribune

External links

• Moscow Conservatory website (in Russian)
• Moscow Conservatory website (in English)