Gnessin Institute Moscow
The Russian Gnessin Music Academy ( Russian Российская академия музыки имени Гнесиных ; historically Gnessin Institute ) is one of two music academies in Moscow, next to the Conservatory .
history
The school was founded on February 15, 1895 by Jelena Gnessina and her two sisters Yevgenia and Maria, who graduated from the Moscow Conservatory with great success.
In the following decades it was rebuilt and expanded several times. Today it is considered an elite music school.
Graduates
- Valentin Berlinski (1925-2008), cellist
- Dima Bilan (* 1981), pop singer
- Alexander Brill , jazz saxophonist
- Dimitri Brill , jazz saxophonist
- Roberto Cani (* 1967), Italian violinist
- Elwira Chochlowa , soprano
- Boris Elkis (* 1973), composer
- Evgenia Fölsche (* 1983), pianist
- Alina Ibragimowa (* 1985), violinist
- Yevgeny Isotow (* 1973), oboist
- Sascha Ivanov , film composer
- Jakow Kasjanski , composer and jazz pianist
- Yuri Katz , music producer
- Filipp Kirkorow (* 1967), pop composer and singer
- Yevgeny Kissin (* 1971), pianist
- Lew Knipper (1898–1974), composer and NKVD agent
- Alexander Kobrin (* 1980), pianist
- Iossif Kobson (1937-2018), singer
- Oleg Kroll , jazz pianist
- Alexei Kruglow (* 1979), jazz musician
- Boris Kuznetsov (* 1985), pianist
- Irina Lankova (* 1977), pianist
- Konstantin Lifschitz (* 1976), pianist
- Irina Loskova , pianist
- Oleg Maisenberg (* 1945), pianist
- Alexander Malofeev (* 2001), pianist
- Mikhail Mordvinov (* 1977), pianist
- Quiynh Nguyen , pianist
- Jakow Okun (* 1972), jazz pianist
- Boris Parsadanian , composer
- Alla Pavlova (* 1952), composer
- Olga Romanko (* 1958), opera singer
- Vissarion Schebalin (1902–1963), composer
- Anatoly Scheludjakow , pianist
- Arkadi Schilkloper (* 1956), alphorn player
- Michael Schnack (* 1967), American conductor, pianist and composer
- Wladislaw Schut (* 1941), composer
- Tatjana Selikman , pianist and teacher at the Gnessin Institute
- Viktor Suslin (1942–2012), composer
- Lyudmila Sykina (1929–2009), folk singer
- Mikael Tariwerdijew (1931–1996), composer
- Nikolai Tokarew (* 1983), pianist
- Valentina Tolkunova (1946-2010), singer
- Daniil Olegowitsch Trifonow (* 1991), pianist and composer
- Wladimir Tropp (* 1939), pianist
- Alexei Wolodin (* 1977), pianist
- Anna Zassimowa , pianist
Teacher
- Aram Chatschaturjan (1903–1978), Soviet-Armenian composer
- Sara Dolukhanova (1918–2007), Russian-Armenian singer (mezzo-soprano)
- Michail Fichtenholz (1920–1985), Russian violinist
- Alexander Fiseisky (* 1950), Russian organist and musicologist
- Alexander Frautschi (1954–2008), Russian guitarist
- Reinhold Glière (1875–1956), Russian composer
- Julija Goncharenko , Russian pianist
- Anna Kantor , Russian pianist
- Alexander Kobrin (* 1980), Russian pianist
- Wladimir Tropp (* 1939), Russian pianist
- Alexander Rosenblatt (* 1956), Russian pianist and composer
- Juri Rosum (* 1954), Russian pianist
- Tatjana Selikman , Russian pianist
Web links
- Official website of the Gnessin Institute (Russian)
- Presentation folder of the Gnessin Institute (English)
Coordinates: 55 ° 45 ′ 19.1 ″ N , 37 ° 35 ′ 31.6 ″ E