Saratov Conservatory is a music conservatory in Russia.

The conservatory in Saratov

Saratov

-Modern Saratov:The Saratov region is highly industrialized, due in part to the rich in natural and industrial resources of the area. The region is also one of the more important and largest cultural and scientific centres in Russia...

, was founded in 1912, and was the first provincial conservatory to be founded in Russia, after St Petersburg Conservatory and Moscow Conservatory. Saratov was, at the time, Russia's third city. The main building of the conservatory had been built in 1902 by architect Alexander Yulyevich Yagnom and originally it housed a musical school. For the opening of the conservatory in 1912 the building was reconstructed by the architect Semyon Akimovich Kallistratova. When Saratov Conservatory opened in September 1912, it immediately had one thousand students ready to begin their studies.

Since 1935 the Conservatory has taken the honorary name of the tenor Leonid Sobinov

Leonid Sobinov

Leonid Vitalyevich Sobinov , was an acclaimed Imperial Russian operatic tenor. His fame continued unabated into the Soviet era, and he was made a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1923...

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Former Directors

• Stanislav Kasparovich Echsner (1912–1914)
• Josef Ivanovich Slivinskii (1914–1916)
• George Edvardovich Konyus (1917–1919)
• Emil Hajek (1920-1921)

Notable teachers

• Emil Hajek (pianist)
• Jaroslav Hajek (violinist)
• Basil G. Brandt, (trumpet)
• Anatoly NikolaevichDrozdov, (music theory)
• Simon Matveevich Kozolupov, (cello)
• Mikhail E. Medvedev, (singing)
• Viktor Ivanovich Egorov, Honored Artist of Russia
• Nikolai Ilyich Aladov (1941–1944)
• Natalia Kimovna Tarasova, Honored Artist of Russia
• Nosyrev, Eugene R. (oboe)
• Gokhman, Elena
• Józef Śliwiński
  Józef Śliwiński
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• Roman Moiseyev
  Roman Moiseyev
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• Konstanty Gorski
  Konstanty Gorski
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• Mikhail Bukinik
• Tatiana Stepanova
  Tatiana Stepanova
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• Arnold Azrikan
  Arnold Azrikan
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Alumni

• Galina Kovalyova
• Lidia Ruslanova
• Franciszek Zachara
  Franciszek Zachara
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  , graduated 1919
• Alena Apina, lead vocalist of Kombinaciya
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Saratov Symphony Orchestra

The Saratov Conservatory has an associated orchestra, The Saratov Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, which was founded in 1912, which traditionally has shared its chief conductor with the Saratov Philharmonic Orchestra. Chief conductors of the two orchestras have included: Nathan Faktorovich, Martyn Nersesyan, Roman Matsov

Roman Matsov

Roman Matsov ; was an Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor of German-Baltic descent....

, and Yuri Aranovich. Guest conductors have included Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...

, Karl-Wilhelm Brandt, Konstantin Saradzhev

Konstantin Saradzhev

Konstantin Saradzhev was an Armenian conductor and violinist. He was an advocate of new Russian music, and conducted a number of premieres of works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Modest Mussorgsky, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Aram Khachaturian...

, Nisson Shkarovsky, Gennady Provatorov

Gennady Provatorov

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, and Yuri Kochnev

Yuri Kochnev

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. Guest performers have included Andrés Díaz (cellist)

Andrés Díaz (cellist)

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See also

• List of institutions of higher learning in Russia
• Russian Academy of Theatre Arts