Music school in Moscow, Russia
Gnessin State Musical College
The main building
The Gnessin State Musical College (Russian: Государственный музыкальный колледж имени Гнесиных ) and Gnesins Russian Academy of Music (Russian: Российская академия музыки имени Гнесиных ) is a music school in Moscow, Russia.
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History
Gnessin sisters (Ольга, Елена, Евгения, Мария, Елизавета)
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] Construction of the modern building began in 1937, interrupted during the war and resumed in 1943. The main part of the academy was built in 1946.
The college quickly became, and remains, an elite music school, considered second only to the Moscow Conservatory.
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Founders
The Gnessin sisters were born in
Rostov-on-Don , the children of Rostov Rabbi Fabian Osipovich Gnessin.
[4] The entire family appears to have possessed musical talent.
[1] Their brother,
Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin , was a celebrated composer and teacher who later served (1945–1957) as head of Gnessin State Musical College.
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Alumni
Russian unless otherwise stated
Georgy Andryushchenko , opera singer
Alexey Arhipovsky , balalaika virtuoso
Yulianna Avdeeva , pianist
Rim Banna , Palestinian singer, composer and arranger
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Nikolay Baskov , singer
Sonya Belousova , Russian-American composer, pianist and recording artist
Dmitry Belosselskiy , bass
Evgeny Belyaev , singer
Boris Berezovsky , pianist
Vasilisa Berzhanskaya , opera singer
Dima Bilan , singer and Eurovision winner
Artyom Bogucharsky , actor and clarinetist
Ivan S. Bukreev , singer
Roberto Cani , violinist
Timofei Dokschitzer , trumpeter
Larisa Dolina , singer and actress
Marina Devyatova , singer
Egine , Armenian-Russian singer and songwriter
Boris Elkis , composer
Ivan Farmakovsky , jazz pianist and composer
Alexander Goldstein , composer
Alina Ibragimova , violinist
Dimitri Illarionov , guitarist
Alexander Ivashkin , cellist
Eugene Izotov , oboist
Mungonzazal Janshindulam , Mongolian pianist
Sati Kazanova , singer
Yakov Kazyansky , composer and jazz pianist
Leonid Kharitonov , singer
Philipp Kirkorov , singer and actor
Evgeny Kissin , pianist
Lev Knipper , composer
Alexander Knyazev , cellist
Joseph Kobzon , Russian vocalist
Rustam Komachkov , cellist
Maria Krushevskaya , Russian harpist
Elena Kuznetsova , pianist and teacher
Edward M. Labkovsky , singer
Irina Lankova , Belgian pianist
Alexander Levine , Russian-British composer
Konstantin Lifschitz , pianist
Oleg Maisenberg , pianist
Alexander Malofeev , pianist
Maxim Mironov , tenor
Roman Moiseyev , conductor
Sofia Moshevich , Canadian scholar, pianist, and teacher
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Quynh Nguyen , Vietnamese pianist
Boris Parsadanian , Armenian-Estonian composer
Olga Pashchenko , pianist
Alla Pavlova , American composer
Kirill Rodin , cellist
Vadim L. Ruslanov , singer
Alexei T. Sergeev , singer
Prokhor Shalyapin , singer
Konstantin Shamray , pianist
Vissarion Shebalin , composer
Natalia Sheludiakova , Russian-Australian pianist and teacher
Anatoly Sheludyakov , pianist
Dmitry Shishkin , pianist
Vladimir Shkaptsov , singer
Vladislav Shoot , composer
Alexander S. Sibirtsev , singer
Leonid Sigal , violinist
Senya Son , pianist and composer
Viktor Suslin , composer
Evgeny Svetlanov , conductor
Svoy , Russian-American songwriter/producer
Mikael Tariverdiev , Georgian-Armenian composer
Valentina Tolkunova , singer
Daniil Trifonov , pianist
Pava Turtygina , composer and pianist
Yulia Volkova , singer from the group t.A.T.u.
Aleksey Volodin , pianist
Marina Yakhlakova , pianist
Inna Zhvanetskaya , Ukrainian composer
Igor Zubkovsky , cellist
Elena Kats-Chernin , composer
Slava Gelfand , violinist
Faculty
Timofei Dokschitzer , Russian-Ukrainian trumpeter
Mikhail Fikhtengoltz , violinist
Grigori Gamburg , conductor
Mikhail Gnessin , composer and brother of founding sisters
Maria Grinberg , Russian-Ukrainian pianist
Aram Khachaturian , Armenian composer
Alexander Kobrin , pianist
Volodymyr Kozhukhar , conductor
Ivan Mozgovenko , clarinetist
Nelli Shkolnikova , Russian-Australian violinist and teacher
Natalia Shpiller , opera singer
Lyubov Streicher , composer and violinist
Inna Abramovna Zhvanetskaia , composer
Valentine Yanovna Zhubinskaya , pianist and composer
References
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c 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 .
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b 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
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"Rim Banna" . World Music Central. Archived from
the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2018 .
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