Moscow Conservatory

Bolshoi Hall, the main performance auditorium

The Moscow Conservatory (Russian: Моско́вская Госуда́рственная Консервато́рия им. П.И.Чайко́вского) is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St. Petersburg Conservatory, it is one of the leading music universities in the country.

It was co-founded in 1866 by Nikolai Rubinstein (brother of the famous Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein, who founded the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1862) and Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy.

At its opening, Tchaikovsky 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

The Moscow Conservatory in 1940

• Natalya Ageyeva – pianist, Artistic Director Russian Chamber Music Foundation of Seattle
• Nelly Akopian-Tamarina – pianist
• Hamsa Al-Wadi Juris – pianist, teacher
• Rowena Arrieta – pianist
• Vladimir Ashkenazy – pianist, conductor
• Dmitri Bashkirov – pianist, teacher
• Yuri Bashmet – violist, conductor
• Boris Berezovsky – pianist
• Boris Berman – pianist, teacher
• Lazar Berman – pianist
• Dang Thai Son - pianist
• Heinrich Neuhaus – pianist
• Stanislav Neuhaus – pianist
• Vadim Borisovsky – violist, teacher
• Anatoliy Brandukov – cellist
• Bella Davidovich – pianist
• Nikolai Demidenko – pianist
• Edison Denisov – composer
• Samuil Feinberg – pianist, composer
• Yakov Flier – pianist
• Andrei Gavrilov – pianist
• Emil Gilels – pianist
• Marina Goglidze-Mdivani - pianist
• Alexei Gorokhov – violinist, musicologist, teacher
• Vera Gornostaeva – pianist and teacher
• Eduard Grach – violin
• Sofia Gubaidulina – composer
• Natalia Gutman – cellist
• Rustem Hayroudinoff – pianist
• Waleed Howrani – composer and pianist
• Valentina Igoshina - pianist
• Dmitri Kabalevsky – composer and pianist
• Olga Kern – pianist
• Aram Khachaturian – composer
• Yuri Kholopov – musicologist, music theorist
• Tikhon Khrennikov – composer
• Leonid Kogan – violinist
• Josef Lhévinne – pianist
• Dong-Hyek Lim – pianist
• Alexei Lubimov – pianist
• Nikolai Lugansky – pianist
• Radu Lupu – pianist
• Dmitry Malikov – pianist
• Yuri Martynov – pianist
• Victor Merzhanov – pianist
• Roman Moiseyev – conductor
• Alexandre Mogilevsky - violinist
• Shoista Mullodzhanova – Shashmaqam singer
• Viktoria Mullova – violinist
• Anahit Nersesyan – pianist
• Tatiana Nikolayeva – pianist
• Lev Oborin – pianist
• David Oistrakh – violinist
• Aleksandra Pakhmutova – composer
• Dmitry Paperno – pianist
• Nikolai Petrov – pianist
• Gregor Piatigorsky – cellist
• Mikhail Pletnev – pianist, composer, conductor
• Ivo Pogorelić – pianist
• Viktoria Postnikova – pianist
• Sergei Rachmaninoff - pianist, composer
• Sviatoslav Richter – pianist
• Mstislav Rostropovich – cellist and conductor
• Gennady Rozhdestvensky – conductor
• Alfred Schnittke – composer
• Rodion Shchedrin – composer and pianist
• Aleksandr Sokolov – Russian Minister of Culture
• Dang Thai Son – pianist
• Vladimir Spivakov – violinist, conductor
• Evgeny Svetlanov – conductor, pianist, composer
• Viktor Tretiakov – violinist
• Mauricio Vallina – pianist
• Eliso Virsaladze – pianist
• Mikhail Voskresensky – pianist
• Alexander Borovsky - pianist

Notable current professors

• Sergei Dorensky – piano
• Andrei Eshpai – composition
• Vera Gornostayeva – piano
• Eduard Grach – violin
• Sergei Kravchenko – violin
• Alexei Lubimov – pianist
• Victor Merzhanov – piano
• Alexei Parshin – organ
• Nikolai Petrov – piano
• Galina Pisarenko – voice
• Elena Richter – piano
• Gennady Rozhdestvensky – conductor
• Yuri Slesarev – piano
• Elisso Virsaladze – piano
• Mikhail Voskresensky – piano

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 (April 18, 2001), "Moscow's Great Hall Turns 100", International Herald Tribune, http://www.iht.com/articles/2001/04/18/loomis_ed2_.php 

See also

• Saint Petersburg Conservatory

External links

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

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Coordinates: 55°45′23″N 37°36′16″E / 55.75639°N 37.60444°E / 55.75639; 37.60444