Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State Musical College (Russian: Государственный музыкальный колледж имени Гнесиных) and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music (Russian: Российская академия музыки имени Гнесиных) is a prominent music school in Moscow, Russia.[1]
History
Originally known as the Gnessin Institute, it was established on February 15, 1895 by three sisters: Evgenia Fabianovna, Elena Fabianovna, and Maria Fabianovna Gnessin.[2] Each of the Gnessin sisters had studied piano and graduated with distinction from the Moscow Conservatory.[3] The college quickly became, and remains, an elite music school, considered second only to the Moscow Conservatory.[4]
Founders
The Gnessin sisters were born in Rostov-on-Don, the children of Rostov Rabbi Fabian Osipovich Gnessin.[5] The entire family appears to have possessed musical talent.[6] Their brother, Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin, was a celebrated composer and teacher who later served (1945-1957) as head of Gnessin State Musical College.[7]
Alumni
Russian unless otherwise stated
- Georgy Andryushchenko, opera singer
- Alexey Arhipovsky, balalaika virtuoso
- Yulianna Avdeeva, pianist
- Irina Loskova, German pianist
- Sonya Belousova, Russian-American composer, pianist and recording artist
- Evgeny Belyaev, singer
- Olga Romanko, Russian-Italian singer
- Boris Berezovsky, pianist
- Ludmila Berlinskaia, pianist
- Dima Bilan, singer and Eurovision winner
- Artyom Bogucharsky, actor and clarinetist
- Hilary Bown, flutist
- Alexandr Brill, jazz saxophonist
- Dmitri Brill, jazz saxophonist
- Ivan S. Bukreev, singer
- Roberto Cani, violinist
- Nikolai Choubine, pianist
- Mauricio Daza, Colombian bassist
- Boris Elkis, composer
- Ivan Farmakovsky, jazz pianist and composer
- Misha Fomin, pianist
- Alexander Goldstein, composer
- Alexander (Sasha) Gryzlov, violinist
- Alina Ibragimova, violinist
- Dimitri Illarionov, guitarist
- Alexander Ivashkin, cellist
- Eugene Izotov, oboist
- Mungonzazal Janshindulam, Mongolian pianist
- Yuriy Karnyushin, singer
- Yuri Katz, Israeli-American music producer
- Sati Kazanova, singer
- Yakov Kazyansky, composer and jazz pianist
- Evgeny Kissin, pianist
- Lev Knipper, composer
- Alexander Knyazev, cellist
- Joseph Kobzon, Russian vocalist
- Michael Korn. American conductor
- Oleg Kroll, Russian jazz pianist
- Elena Kuznetsova, pianist and teacher
- Edward M. Labkovsky, singer
- Irina Lankova, pianist
- Konstantin Lifschitz, pianist
- Irina Loskova, German pianist
- Oleg Maisenberg, pianist
- Eduardo Mirabal, Venezuelan pianist and teacher
- Maxim Mironov, tenor
- Michael Miropolsky, violinist and conductor
- Roman Moiseyev, conductor
- Dr. Sofia Moshevich, Canadian scholar, pianist, and teacher[8][9][10]
- Quynh Nguyen, Vietnamese pianist
- Yury Nugmanov, guitar player
- Yakov Okun, jazz pianist
- Boris Parsadanian, Armenian-Estonian composer
- Olga Pashchenko, pianist
- Alla Pavlova, American composer
- Elza Ritter, Russian-American pianist and teacher
- Kirill Rodin, cellist
- Kristina Rozhkova, harpist
- Vadim L. Ruslanov, singer
- Alexei T. Sergeev, singer
- Konstantin Shamray, pianist
- Vissarion Shebalin, composer
- Natalia Sheludiakova, Russian-Australian pianist and teacher
- Anatoly Sheludyakov, pianist
- Vladimir Shkaptsov, singer
- Vladislav Shoot, composer
- Alexander S. Sibirtsev, singer
- Viktor Suslin, composer
- Svoy, Russian-American songwriter/producer
- Mikael Tariverdiev, Georgian-Armenian composer
- Valentina Tolkunova, singer
- Daniil Trifonov, pianist
- Dmitriy Varshavskiy, hard-rock/heavy metal singer and guitarist
- Yulia Volkova, singer from the group t.A.T.u.
- Aleksey Volodin, pianist
- Marina Yakhlakova, pianist
- Alexander Zemtsov, Russian-German violist,professor
- Igor Zubkovsky, cellist
- Boris Midney, Russian American composer, producer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, sound eEngineer
- Eugene (Evgeny) Svetlanov, conductor
- Sergey Shirokov, TV director and producer
- Mary Carne, jazz singer and actrees
- Ilya Pepenak, musical director and producer, director of the State academical symphony orchestra of Russia
- Alexander Alyoshinsky, pianist
- Valentina Antipenko, violinist
- Julia Kryakova, violinist
- Victoria Volodina, violinist
- Philipp Kirkorov, singer and actor
- Nikolay Baskov, singer
- Marina Devyatova, singer
- Valeria (Perfilova), singer
- Paolo Di Bartolo, tubas
- Egor Bulatkin (KreeD), singer and creative producer
- Prokhor Shalyapin, singer
- Alexandra Platonova, opera and metal singer, musical producer, actrees
- Leonid Ptashka, Russian and Israeli jazz pianist and virtuoso
- Valery Grokhovsky, jazz pianist and virtuoso, professor
- Juliana Karaulova, singer
- Anastasia Kraynova, singer, radio producer and presenter
- Polina Nikolayeva, producer, composer, jazz singer and pianist
- Dinara Daurova, producer and singer
- Anna Tonkovid, producer and saxophonist, poet
- Andrey Gaponov, musicologist, teacher and pianist
- Ol'ga Moskvina, musicologist and teacher
- Pavel Lutsker, musicologist and radio producer, professor
- Nikolay Levinovsky, Russian and American saxophonist
- Irina Otiyeva, jazz singer
- Irina Nikolayeva, pianist, professor
- Egine, Armenian-Russian singer and songwriter.
- Senya Son, pianist and composer
- Egine, Russian-Armenian singer
- Elena Shagalov Drabkin, pianist
Faculty
- Timofei Dokschitzer, Russian-Ukrainian trumpeter
- Mikhail Fikhtengoltz, violinist
- Alexander Frautschi, guitarist
- Grigori Gamburg, conductor
- Mikhail Gnessin, composer and brother of founding sisters
- Maria Grinberg, Russian-Ukrainian pianist
- Anna Kantor, pianist
- Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer
- Alexander Kobrin, pianist
- Georg Orentlicher, professor of chamber and vocal accompaniment
- Nelli Shkolnikova, Russian-Australian violinist and teacher
References
- ↑ Moisenko, Rena. (1949) Realist Music: 25 Soviet Composers, London: Meridian Book, Ltd.
- ↑ Phillips, Anthony & Prokofiev, Sergey. (2006). "Sergey Prokofiev Diaries, 1907-1914: Prodigious Youth", p. 498 Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- ↑ Phillips, Anthony & Prokofiev, Sergey. (2006). "Sergey Prokofiev Diaries, 1907-1914: Prodigious Youth", p. 498 Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- ↑ Phillips, Anthony & Prokofiev, Sergey. (2006). "Sergey Prokofiev Diaries, 1907-1914: Prodigious Youth", p. 498 Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- ↑ Hundert, Gershon David. (2008) The YIVO encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe: Volume 2, p. 1595 New Haven: Yale University Press
- ↑ Moisenko, Rena. (1949) Realist Music: 25 Soviet Composers, London: Meridian Book, Ltd.
- ↑ Moisenko, Rena. (1949) Realist Music: 25 Soviet Composers, London: Meridian Book, Ltd.
- ↑ http://www.namibian.com.na/archive_pdf_19851990/1986_TheNamibian/6%20June%201986.pdf
- ↑ http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=1037_3130_3167&products_id=807310
- ↑ http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/jspui/bitstream/10539/13021/1/Pg%201-120.pdf
External links
- Gnesin Academy of Music official website (Russian)
- Gnessin State Musical College website (Russian)
Coordinates: 55°45′19″N 37°35′32″E / 55.7553°N 37.5921°E