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2 unusual facts about Saint Petersburg Conservatory


Cyrillus Kreek

Kreek studied trombone and composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory from 1908 to 1916 in the years immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, then worked as music teacher first in his native Haapsalu (in western Estonia), at the Tartu Music College and later at the Tallinn Conservatory.

Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov

She served as an otolaryngology doctor at St. Petersburg's Conservatory.


Alex Prior

At 13, he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory where, beginning in his third year, he studied composition with Boris Tishchenko and opera and symphonic conducting with Alexander Alexeev (a pupil of Hans Swarowsky).

Alexander Polishchuk

Polishchuk have graduated from Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1991 and after it worked as an assistant to Professor Ilya Musin following by 1988 winning at the All-Union Conductors’ Competition.

Arthur Lourié

An admirer of van Gogh, from whom he derived the name 'Vincent', Lourié was partly self-taught, but also studied piano with Barinova and composition with Glazunov at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, graduating in 1913.

Jacobo Ficher

From 1912 to 1917 he was enrolled at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he continued his violin studies with Sergei Korguyev and Leopold Auer.

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.

Markku Laakso

He has studied conducting in Russia at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, where his teacher was Leonid Korchmar, and in Finland at the Sibelius Academy with Leif Segerstam.

Nadia Reisenberg

Born in Vilnius, Reisenberg studied under Leonid Nikolayev at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

Oktavist

Recently, the St.Petersburg chamber choir recorded the album "Tranquillity Voices of deep calm." The soloist, Tim Storms, hits an E1, one of the lowest notes recorded.

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.

Sasha Mäkilä

Sasha Mäkilä, born in Kerava, Finland, first studied cello at the Helsinki Conservatory before starting his conducting studies with Leonid Korchmar at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory of St. Petersburg, Russia.

Veniamin Fleishman

While studying under Dmitri Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory (1939–1941), he began a one-act opera Rothschild's Violin based on Anton Chekhov’s short story about Bronza, a Russian country coffin-maker and violinist, and his combative relationship with the Jewish musicians in his village.


see also

Malov

Oleg Malov, Russian pianist, professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.