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13 unusual facts about Moscow Conservatory


Gulnara Mashurova

Gulnara Mashurova is a native of Kazakhstan and a graduate of Moscow Conservatory, known for her work on the harp.

Jewish art music

In spite of the restrictions on residency and quotas on Jewish students in universities, many Russian Jews enrolled as music students at the St. Petersburg and Moscow Conservatories.

Leone Giraldoni

After his retirement he taught voice and singing, first in Milan, and from 1891 at the Moscow Conservatory.

Maria Yudina

In 1936, upon Heinrich Neuhaus's suggestion, Maria Yudina joined the piano faculty of the Moscow Conservatory, where she taught until 1951.

Mikhail Kopelman

He was born in 1947 in the Transkarpathian city of Uzhhorod, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory with professors Maya Glezarova and Yuri Yankelevich.

Piano Summer

The pianist taught for many years at the Moscow Conservatory and brought up generations of prominent musicians including Vladimir Feltsman.

Russian Musical Society

The RMS's formal successors were the St. Petersburg Conservatory, which opened (also under the auspices of Anton Rubinstein), in September 1862, and the Moscow Conservatory, founded by Nikolai Rubinstein and Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy in September 1866.

Tiberiu Olah

From 1949-54 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory, and in 1958 he took a position as a lecturer and later as a professor at the Bucharest Conservatory.

Variations on a Rococo Theme

Tchaikovsky wrote this piece for and with the help of Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, a German cellist and fellow-professor at the Moscow Conservatory.

Vladimir Fontikov

Born in Novorossiysk, Russian SFSR, to a Russian father and an Armenian mother, Fontikov moved to Yerevan, Armenian SSR in 1943 and lived there until 1962, when he began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory.

Vorkuta State Drama Theatre

In the post the chief director of the theater was appointed a prisoner Boris Mordvinov (ru: Мордвинов, Борис Аркадьевич), former director of the Bolshoi Theatre, and professor of the Moscow Conservatory (he was appointed as a spy).

Wilhelm Fitzenhagen

Fitzenhagen, however, had already accepted a professorship at the Moscow Conservatory.

Yuri Kholopov

He taught at the Moscow Conservatoire since 1960, where he became a professor in 1983.


Antal Zalai

As a recitalist, Antal Zalai has performed in the Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater in Washington, D.C., the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Victoria Hall (Geneva), the Concert Hall of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts in Vancouver among others.

Anton Rovner

From 1989 to 1990 he was a fellowship student at the Moscow Conservatory (studies with Nikolai Sidelnikov).

Arthur Eisen

He then attended Moscow Conservatory and in 1955, a year before graduating, he won the gold medal at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw.

Mark Kopytman

After graduating from medical college, Kopytman studied composition with Roman Simovych at the Lysenko Academy of Music in Lviv and with S. Bogatirev at Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow.

Nailia Galiamova

From 1979 to 1984 she studied composition under the tutelage of Prof. Albert Leman at the Piotr Tchaikovsky State Conservatoire in Moscow, which she graduated with distinction.

Nikolai Rubinstein

He co-founded the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society in 1859 and the Moscow Conservatory in 1866 with Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy, serving as director of the latter until his death in 1881.

Nikolay Madoyan

Madoyan performed at the Tivoli Hall, Concertgebouw, Royal Festival Hall, Milan Verdi Theatre and the Big Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

Pavel Egorov

He won the VI Robert Schumann Competition before graduating in 1975 from the Moscow Conservatory.

Pavel Nersessian

After graduating from high school with honors, in 1982 he entered the Moscow Conservatory (class of Sergei Dorensky).

Racha Arodaky

After receiving her premier prix de conservatoire at age 16, she went to study at the Moscow Conservatory with Yevgeny Malinin.

Sansargereltekh Sangidorj

He continued his piano studies at the Musikhochschule in Pagma Puntsag and studied at the Moscow Conservatory from 1989 in composition with Albert Leman and piano with Elena Saweljewa.

State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation

Sometimes known in English as the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra gives concerts in Moscow at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.

Valentina Kameníková

During World War II, due to her origin, she was relegated to Siberia, studying and playing the piano, first in Odessa at a local music school, then at the Odessa Conservatory, and later at the Moscow Conservatory.