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The Moscow Conservatory (?????????? ??????????????? ????????????? ??. ?.?.???????????) is a prominent music school in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
.

It was co-founded in 1866 by Nikolai Rubinstein (brother of the famous Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein
Anton Rubinstein

Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and Conducting. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos....
, who founded the St. Petersburg Conservatory
Saint Petersburg Conservatory

The N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students....
 in 1862) and Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy.

At its opening, Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
 was appointed professor of theory and harmony, a post he held until approximately 1878.






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The Moscow Conservatory (?????????? ??????????????? ????????????? ??. ?.?.???????????) is a prominent music school in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
.

It was co-founded in 1866 by Nikolai Rubinstein (brother of the famous Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein
Anton Rubinstein

Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and Conducting. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos....
, who founded the St. Petersburg Conservatory
Saint Petersburg Conservatory

The N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students....
 in 1862) and Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy.

At its opening, Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
 was appointed professor of theory and harmony, a post he held until approximately 1878. Since 1940, the conservatory has borne Tchaikovsky's name.

Some notable alumni

  • Pavel Gintov
    Pavel Gintov

    Pavel Gintov was born on January 14, 1984 in Kiev, Ukraine. At the age of 6 he started his musical education at Kiev Central Music School and continued at the Moscow State Conservatory, where he was a student of the proclaimed "Godfather of the Russian piano school" Lev Naumov ....
     - concert pianist
  • Nelly Akopian-Tamarina
    Nelly Akopian-Tamarina

    Nelly Akopian-Tamarina is a Russian pianist. Born in Moscow, she studied with Anaida Sumbatyan at the Moscow Central Music School. Later at the Moscow Conservatoire she was the last student of the legendary Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser - associate and friend of Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninov and Nikolai Medtner - and the first st...
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Hamsa Al-Wadi Juris - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
     - professor
    Professor

    The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
  • Rowena Arrieta - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy
    Vladimir Ashkenazy

    Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is a Russian Conducting and virtuoso pianist. He has been a citizen of Iceland, the home of his wife ??runn, since 1972 and currently lives with his family in Switzerland....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
    , conductor
    Conducting

    Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
  • Yuri Bashmet
    Yuri Bashmet

    Yuri Abramovich Bashmet is a leading Russian Conductor and violist....
     - violist
    Violist

    This is a list of noted viola players....
    , conductor
    Conducting

    Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
  • Dmitri Bashkirov - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
    , teacher
    Teacher

    In education, a teacher is a person who teaches. A teacher who teaches an individual student may also be described as a personal tutor.The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out by way of Occupation or Profession at a school or other place of formal education....
  • Boris Berezovsky
    Boris Berezovsky (pianist)

    Boris Vadimovich Berezovsky is a Russian pianist.Berezovsky studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Eliso Virsaladze and privately with Alexander Satz....
     - concert pianist
  • Lazar Berman
    Lazar Berman

    Lazar Naumovich Berman was a Soviet Russian European classical music pianist.Berman's playing showed great technical brilliance, showmanship, emotional and physical force....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Boris Berman
    Boris Berman

    Boris Berman is a Russian pianist and pedagogue .He was a student of Lev Oborin at the Moscow Conservatory. He made his debut in Moscow in 1965....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
    , professor
    Professor

    The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
  • Vadim Borisovsky
    Vadim Borisovsky

    Vadim Vasilyevich Borisovsky is a Russian viola born in Moscow on January 19, 1900 and died August 2, 1972, Moscow.Borisovsky entered Moscow Conservatory in 1917 studying the violin with Mikhail Kress....
     - violist
    Violist

    This is a list of noted viola players....
    , professor
    Professor

    The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
  • Anatoliy Brandukov
    Anatoliy Brandukov

    Anatoliy Andreyevich Brandukov was a Russians List of cellists who premiered many cello pieces of prominent composers including Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff....
     - cellist
  • Sofia Gubaidulina
    Sofia Gubaidulina

    Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, is a Russian composer of half Russians half Volga Tatars ethnicity....
     - composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
  • Natalia Gutman
    Natalia Gutman

    Natalia Gutman is a Russian cellist. She began to study cello at the Moscow Music School with R. Sapozhnikov. She was later admitted to the Moscow Conservatory, where she was taught by Rostropovich, amongst others....
     - cellist
  • Bella Davidovich
    Bella Davidovich

    Bella Mikhaylovna Davidovich is a Jewish Soviet Union-born United States pianist.Davidovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, into a family of musicians and began studying piano when she was six....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Nikolai Demidenko
    Nikolai Demidenko

    Nikolai Demidenko is a Russian pianist.Demidenko studied at the Moscow Gnessin School with Anna Kantor and at the Moscow Conservatory under Dmitri Bashkirov....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Edison Denisov
    Edison Denisov

    Edison Vasilievich Denisov was a Russian composer of so called "Underground culture" ? "Anti-Collectivist", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division in the Soviet music....
     - composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
  • Samuil Feinberg
    Samuil Feinberg

    Samuil Evgenyevich Feinberg was a Russian composer and pianist. Raised in Moscow, he entered the Moscow Conservatory and studied under Alexander Goldenweiser ....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
    , composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
  • Yakov Flier
    Yakov Flier

    Yakov Vladimirovich Flier was a Russian concert pianist and teacher.Flier studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Konstantin Igumnov. By the 1930s he had become one of the most prominent Russian concert pianists....
     - concert pianist
  • Andrei Gavrilov
    Andrei Gavrilov

    Andrei Gavrilov http://www.andreigavrilov.com or Andrej Vladimirovic Gavrilov His father Vladimir Gavrilov was a great Russian painter....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Emil Gilels
    Emil Gilels

    Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Soviet Union pianist, widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. His last name is sometimes transliterated Hilels....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Alexei Gorokhov
    Alexei Gorokhov

    Aleksey Nikolaevich Gorokhov was a Russian violinist who lived most of his life in Ukraine.Many Ukrainian violinists are either his pupils or pupils of his pupils....
     - violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
    ist, musicologist, professor
    Professor

    The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
  • Vera Gornostaeva - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
     and professor
    Professor

    The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
  • Rustem Hayroudinoff
    Rustem Hayroudinoff

    Rustem Hayroudinoff - Kazan born world-renowned pianist. His father Awzal X?yretdinov is a famous professor at Kazan State Conservatoire....
     -pianist
  • Waleed Howrani
    Waleed Howrani

    Waleed Howrani is an United States composer and piano. He was born in New York, spent much of his childhood in Beirut and studied piano at Moscow?s Central Music School and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory....
     - composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
     and pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky - composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
     and pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Olga Kern
    Olga Kern

    Olga Kern is a Russian European classical music pianist. She was born into a family of musicians with ties to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff, and began studying piano with Evgeny Timakin at the Central Music School of Moscow when she was five....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Tikhon Khrennikov
    Tikhon Khrennikov

    Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, and film actor, who was also known for his political activities....
     - composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
  • Leonid Kogan - violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
    ist
  • Aram Khachaturian
    Aram Khachaturian

    Aram Khachaturian was a Soviet Union-Armenians composer whose works were often influenced by Armenian folk music....
     - composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
  • Yuri Kholopov
    Yuri Kholopov

    Yuri Nikolaevich Kholopov was a famous Russian musicologist, music theorist, doctor of arts, and professor of the Moscow Conservatory....
     - musicologist, music theorist
  • Josef Lhévinne
    Josef Lhévinne

    Josef Lh?vinne was a Russian pianist and piano teacher.He was born into a family of musicians in Orel and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Vasily Ilyich Safonov....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Dong-Hyek Lim
    Dong-Hyek Lim

    Dong-Hyek Lim is a young South Korean classical pianist. Lim currently studies with Emanuel Ax at the Juilliard School in New York City, and received the Samsung Culture Scholarship and the Ezoe Scholarship....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Radu Lupu
    Radu Lupu

    Radu Lupu is a Romanian-Jewish concert piano. He has won a number of the most prestigious awards in classical piano, including first prizes in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Nikolai Lugansky
    Nikolai Lugansky

    Nikolai Lugansky is a Russian pianist, born on April 26th, 1972 in Moscow. He studied piano at the Moscow Central Music School and the Moscow Conservatory....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Dmitry Malikov
    Dmitry Malikov

    Dmitry Yurevich Malikov is a Russian composer, singer and recently a record producer. He was also an actor in one movie....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Yuri Martynov - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Victor Merzhanov
    Victor Merzhanov

    Victor Karpovich Merzhanov is a Russian pianist....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Shoista Mullodzhanova
    Shoista Mullodzhanova

    Shoista Mullojonova is a famous legendary Tajiks Shashmakom singer. She won many awards and titles in her career including the prestigious "People's Artist of the Republic of Tajikistan" and "Merited Artist of the USSR." She is viewed, by many people, as the "Queen of Central Asian Music." Her nephew, Yudik Mullodzhanov, is a famous singer,...
    - Shashmakon singer
  • Viktoria Mullova
    Viktoria Mullova

    Viktoria Mullova is a Russian violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles, and others....
     - violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
    ist
  • Anahit Nersesyan
    Anahit Nersesyan

    Anahit Nersesyan , a famous Armenian pianist was born in 1954 in Yerevan. She studied at the Tchaikovsky Music School, Yerevan from 1961-72 with Professor E....
     -
  • Tatiana Nikolayeva
    Tatiana Nikolayeva

    Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva was a Russian Soviet Union piano, composer and teacher.Nikolayeva was born in Bezhitsa in the Bryansk Oblast on 4 May 1924....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Lev Oborin
    Lev Oborin

    Lev Nikolayevich Oborin was a Russia pianist. He was the winner of the first International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in 1927.The family moved a lot during his early childhood....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • David Oistrakh
    David Oistrakh

    David Fyodorovich Oistrakh , David Fiodorovic Ojstrah; – October 24, 1974) was a Russian violin virtuoso who made many recordings and was the dedicatee of numerous violin works....
     - violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
    ist
  • Aleksandra Pakhmutova
    Aleksandra Pakhmutova

    Aleksandra "Alya" Nikolayevna Pakhmutova has remained one of the best known figures in Soviet Union and later Russian popular music since she first achieved fame in her homeland in the 1960s....
     - composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
  • Dmitry Paperno
    Dmitry Paperno

    Dmitry Paperno , Ukraine is a concert pianist.He won the 6th Prize in the 1955 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition, and then recorded and performed widely under the Soviet regime....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Nikolai Petrov
    Nikolai Petrov

    Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov is a Russian pianist.Petrov was born in Moscow, the grandson of the operatic bass Vasily Rodionovich Petrov, and began learning the piano at the age of three....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Gregor Piatigorsky
    Gregor Piatigorsky

    Gregor Piatigorsky was a Ukraine-USA cello....
     - cellist
  • Mikhail Pletnev
    Mikhail Pletnev

    Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev in Arkhangelsk, Russia is a pianist, conducting, and composer.He was born to a very musical family; his father played and taught accordion, his mother piano....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
    , composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
    , conductor
    Conducting

    Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
  • Ivo Pogorelic
    Ivo Pogorelic

    Ivo Pogorelic is a Croatian pianist.He was born in Belgrade, Serbia, then part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to a Croatian father and a Serbian mother....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Viktoria Postnikova
    Viktoria Postnikova

    Viktoria Postnikova is a Russian pianist....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Sviatoslav Richter
    Sviatoslav Richter

    Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet pianist and widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. He was well known for the depth of his interpretations, virtuoso technique and vast repertoire....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Mstislav Rostropovich
    Mstislav Rostropovich

    Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire , , known to close friends as ?Slava,? was a Russians cellist and conducting....
     - cellist and conductor
    Conducting

    Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
  • Alfred Schnittke
    Alfred Schnittke

    Alfred Garyevich Schnittke was a Russian and Soviet Union composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich....
     - composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
  • Vladimir Spivakov
    Vladimir Spivakov

    Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov is a leading Russian conductor and violinist best known for his work with the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra....
     - violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
    ist, conductor
    Conducting

    Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
  • Aleksandr Sokolov
    Aleksandr Sergeyevich Sokolov

    Aleksandr Sergeyevich Sokolov is a Russian politician and the current Minister of Culture for President Vladimir Putin's government. He was nominated to the post by the Prime Minister, Mikhail Fradkov, and has held it since 9 March, 2004....
     - Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
    n Minister of Culture
    Minister of culture

    A culture minister is a Cabinet position in some governments responsible for protecting the national heritage of a country and promoting cultural expression....
  • Rodion Shchedrin
    Rodion Shchedrin

    Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin is a Russian composer. He was one ?f the leading Soviet composers, and was the chairman of the Union of Russian Composers from 1973 until 1990....
     - composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
     and pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Dang Thai Son
    Dang Thai Son

    Dang Thai Son is a Vietnamese-Canadian classical pianist. Known as an emerging figure amongst the leading international musicians of our time, Vietnamese pianist Dang Thai Son was propelled to the forefront of the musical world in October 1980, when he was awarded the First Prize and Gold Medal at the Tenth International Chopin Piano Compet...
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Evgeny Svetlanov
    Evgeny Svetlanov

    Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov was a conducting and composer and - less well-known - a pianist.Svetlanov was born in Moscow and studied conducting at the Moscow Conservatory there....
     - conductor
    Conducting

    Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors....
    , pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
    , composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
  • Viktor Tretiakov
    Viktor Tretiakov

    Viktor Tretyakov is a Russian violinist and conductor. Other spellings of his name are Victor, Tretyakov and Tretjakov. ...
     - violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
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  • Mauricio Vallina
    Mauricio Vallina

    Mauricio Vallina is a Cuban pianist.Vallina has been internationally active as a concert pianist since 1990. He was one of the pianists featured in EMI's series Martha Argerich presents.......
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
  • Eliso Virsaladze
    Eliso Virsaladze

    Eliso Konstantines asuli Virsaladze is a Georgia pianist.She was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. Her father Constantine Virsaladze was a prominent physician, so was her grandfather Spiridon Virsaladze....
     - pianist
    Pianist

    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....


Notable current professors

  • Sergei Dorensky
    Sergei Dorensky

    Sergei Dorensky is a Russian pianist.He was trained under Grigory Ginsburg at the Moscow Conservatory. Dorensky was awarded a Gold Medal at the 5th World Festival of Youth and Students and the 1957 Rio de Janeiro Competition's 2nd Prize, which allowed him to perform through Western Europe and America....
     - piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  • Vera Gornostayeva - piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  • Eduard Grach - violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
  • Sergei Kravchenko - violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
  • Victor Merzhanov
    Victor Merzhanov

    Victor Karpovich Merzhanov is a Russian pianist....
     - piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  • Alexei Parshin - organ
    Organ (music)

    The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard played either Manual or Pedal clavier. The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the European classical music....
  • Nikolai Petrov
    Nikolai Petrov

    Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov is a Russian pianist.Petrov was born in Moscow, the grandson of the operatic bass Vasily Rodionovich Petrov, and began learning the piano at the age of three....
     - piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  • Elena Richter - piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  • Rena Shereshevskaya - piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  • Elisso Virsaladze - piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  • Mikhail Voskresensky
    Mikhail Voskresensky

    Mikhail Voskresensky is a Russian pianist, b. 1935.He was a disciple of Lev Oborin. Voskresensky was awarded 3rd prizes at the inaugural editions of the Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition....
     - piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....


See also

  • Saint Petersburg Conservatory
    Saint Petersburg Conservatory

    The N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students....
  • Pan Asian Ensemble


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