Kiev Conservatory
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The Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music (or Kiev Conservatory) is a Ukrainian state institution of higher music education. Its courses include postgraduate education
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campus of the Music College of the Russian Musical Society
. The organization of the conservatory was spearheaded by Sergei Rachmaninoff
, Alexander Glazunov
, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
. The first directors were V. Pukhalsky (1913) and Reinhold Glière
(1914–1920). In 1925, the lower years were separated from the conservatory to form a musical college, while the older classes became the Mykola Lysenko
Music and Drama Institute. Viktor Kosenko
taught at both institutions.
In 1938, the conservatory received the Order of Lenin
award. In 1940, the conservatory was named after P. Tchaikovsky. In 1995, the President of Ukraine elevated the conservatory's status, and renamed it the P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.
The conservatory occupies a building built in the 1890s as the Hotel Continental. The building was destroyed during World War II
, but was rebuilt in 1955, at which point a concert hall was added (architects L. Katok and Ya. Krasny). It is located on Horodetsky street 1/3.
2. Wind
3. Folk instruments
Postgraduate education
Postgraduate education involves learning and studying for degrees or other qualifications for which a first or Bachelor's degree generally is required, and is normally considered to be part of higher education...
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History
The Kiev Conservatory was founded in 1913 at the KievKiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
campus of the Music College of the Russian Musical Society
Russian Musical Society
The Russian Musical Society was an organisation founded in 1859 by the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna and her protégé, pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein, with the intent of raising the standard of music in the country and disseminating musical education.Rubinstein and the Grand Duchess's...
. The organization of the conservatory was spearheaded by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
, Alexander Glazunov
Alexander Glazunov
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...
, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
. The first directors were V. Pukhalsky (1913) and Reinhold Glière
Reinhold Glière
Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German–Polish descent.- Biography :Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine...
(1914–1920). In 1925, the lower years were separated from the conservatory to form a musical college, while the older classes became the Mykola Lysenko
Mykola Lysenko
Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist.- Biography :Lysenko was born in Hrynky, Kremenchuk Povit, Poltava Governorate, the son of Vitaliy Romanovich Lysenko . From childhood he became very interested in the folksongs of Ukrainian peasants and...
Music and Drama Institute. Viktor Kosenko
Viktor Kosenko
Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko was a Ukrainian composer.He studied piano at the St Petersburg Conservatory and composition with Mikhail Sokolov, a pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1905-1908. From 1919–29 he lived in Zhytomyr, then Kharkiv and Kiev. From 1934 he taught at the Kiev Conservatory...
taught at both institutions.
In 1938, the conservatory received the Order of Lenin
Order of Lenin
The Order of Lenin , named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was the highest decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union...
award. In 1940, the conservatory was named after P. Tchaikovsky. In 1995, the President of Ukraine elevated the conservatory's status, and renamed it the P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.
The conservatory occupies a building built in the 1890s as the Hotel Continental. The building was destroyed during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, but was rebuilt in 1955, at which point a concert hall was added (architects L. Katok and Ya. Krasny). It is located on Horodetsky street 1/3.
Piano faculty
- Liudmila Kasyanenko, piano
- Arseniy Kotlyarevsky, organ
- Olga Koviolova, piano
- Igor Ryabov, piano
- Galyna Bulybenko, organ
Orchestral Faculty
1. Strings2. Wind
- Volodymyr Antonov, flute
3. Folk instruments
- Serhiy BashtanSerhiy BashtanSerhiy Vasylievych Bashtan is a professor of Bandura at the Kiev ConservatoryBashtan was born in the village of Novi Birochky, now Velykyj Khutir, Cherkasy Oblast....
, banduraBanduraBandura refers to a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument. It combines elements of a box zither and lute, as well as its lute-like predecessor, the kobza... - Bobyr AndriyBobyr AndriyAndriy Matviyevych Bobyr , People's Artist of Ukraine .Andriy Bobyr was born in the village of Nychyporivka, in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire....
, bandura - Mykola Davydov, bayanBayanBayan may have the following meanings coming from various cultures* Bayan, means dawn in Kurdish language.*Bayan, the larger drum of the tabla set.* an Arabic female name meaning "clearness, eloquence."*Bayan, the Turkish word for "lady"...
- Volodymyr KabachokVolodymyr KabachokVolodymyr Andryievych Kabachok was a bandura player in the Ukraine.-Biography:Born in the village of Petrivka, in the Poltava region, Kabachok became a singer in the Archbishop's choir in Poltava until 1907 when he entered the Poltava music college.Kabachok continued his music education at the...
, bandura
Composers
- Oleksandr BilashOleksandr BilashOleksandr Bilash was a renowned Ukrainian composer, the author of popular liric songs, ballads, operas, operettas, oratorios and music for films...
- Lesia DychkoLesia Dychko-Life:Lesia Dychko was born in Kiev and graduated from the M.V. Lysenko Secondary Musical School in 1959 with a degree in music theory. In 1964 she graduated from the Kiev National Musical Academy of Ukraine in composition, studying with Konstantyn Dankevych and Borys Lyatoshynsky...
, - Leonid Hrabovsky, 1959
- Ivan KarabytsIvan KarabytsIvan Fedorovich Karabyts was a Ukrainian composer and conductor, People's Artist of Ukraine.He graduated from the Kiev Conservatory in 1971 as a student of Boris Lyatoshynsky and Myroslav Skoryk. He conducted the Dance Ensemble of the Kiev Military District and the Kiev Camerata...
, 1971 - Borys Lyatoshynsky,
- Igor PokladIgor PokladIgor Dmytrovych Poklad is a Ukrainian composer. Poklad started off his career in the Academical Ensemble of the Internal Troops of Ukraine of Songs and Dances. He later graduated from the Kiev Conservatory in 1967...
, 1967 - Sergei ProtopopovSergei ProtopopovSergei Vladimirovich Protopopov was a Russian avant-garde composer and music theorist.- Life :Not much is known about his life. After studying medicine at the Moscow University, he attended the Kiev Conservatory where he pursued studies of music with theorist Boleslav Yavorsky. He graduated in...
, 1921 - Levko RevutskyLevko RevutskyLevko Mykolajovych Revutskyi was a Ukrainian composer, teacher, and activist. Amongst his students at the Lysenko Music Institute were the composers Arkady Filippenko and Valentin Silvestrov.-Early life and education:...
, - Valentin SilvestrovValentin SilvestrovValentyn Vasylyovych Sylvestrov is a Ukrainian pianist and composer of contemporary classical music.-Education:Sylvestrov began private music lessons at age 15...
, - Yevhen StankovychYevhen StankovychYevhen Fedorovych Stankovych is a contemporary Ukrainian composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, and choral works. His works have been performed around the globe.- Biography :...
- Franklin Pire,1996
Singers
- Georges BaklanoffGeorges BaklanoffGeorges Baklanoff was a Russian operatic baritone who had an active international career from 1903 until his death in 1938. Possessing a powerful and flexible voice, he sang roles from a wide variety of musical periods and in many languages...
, operaOperaOpera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
tic baritoneBaritoneBaritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or... - Edgar BastidasEdgar BastidasEdgar Bastidas is a Venezuelan tenor.He studied in the musical institute Mikhail Glinka in Dnipropetrovs'k in Ukraine, with the teacher María E. Markina. He studied from 1991 to 1995 in the Kiev State Conservatory "Piotr I. Tchaikovsky" in Ukraine, with the Russian Professor Vladimir I...
, 1995 - Dmytro HnatyukDmytro HnatyukDmytro Hnatyuk is a famous Ukrainian baritone opera singer, and a member of The Supreme Council of Ukraine.- Biography :Dmytro Hnatyuk was born on March 28, 1925 in the village of Mamayivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast , Ukraine...
, 1951 - Evgeniya MiroshnichenkoEvgeniya MiroshnichenkoEvgheniya Miroshnichenko was a Ukrainian opera and chamber singer, internationally famous for her coloratura soprano voice.She was born in a working-class family in Radyanskoe- a small village in the Vovchank region near Kharkiv...
, 1957 - Vyacheslav Polozov, tenor (Metropolitan Opera, La Scala)
- Solomon KhromchenkoSolomon KhromchenkoSolomon Markovich Khromchenko – Russian and Jewish singer, tenor....
, 1931 - Oksana DykaOksana DykaOksana Dyka , also spelled Oksana Dika, is a Ukrainian operatic soprano.-Career:Dyka graduated in 2004 at the Kiev Conservatory and sang as a soloist at the Kiev.Opera from 2003 until 2007....
, 2004
Pianists
- Alexander BrailowskyAlexander BrailowskyAlexander Brailowsky was a Ukrainian French pianist who specialized in the works of Frédéric Chopin. He was a leading concert pianist in the years between the two World Wars.-Early life:...
- Vladimir HorowitzVladimir HorowitzVladimir Samoylovich Horowitz was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Life and early...
- Anatole KitainAnatole Kitain- Early life :Anatole Kitain was born in Saint Petersburg into a family of professional musicians. His brothers, Robert and Boris, were violinists, and his brother Alexander was a pianist. He showed early promise, performing his own nocturne for the astonished Glazunov at the age of six...
- Valentina LisitsaValentina LisitsaValentina Lisitsa is a Ukrainian-born classical pianist. Lisitsa resides in North Carolina in the USA. Her husband, Alexei Kuznetsoff, is also a pianist and her partner in a number of piano duets.- Biography :Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1973...
- Herman MakarenkoHerman MakarenkoHerman Makarenko is a Ukrainian conductor, the Conductor and Music Director of the Kyiv Classic Orchestra.-Early life and education:...
, 1986 - Leo SirotaLeo SirotaLeo Sirota was a Jewish pianist born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolskaya Guberniya, Russian Empire, now Ukraine....
- Alexander UninskyAlexander Uninsky-Life and career:Alexander Uninsky was born in Kiev . He initially studied piano there in the conservatory which had been opened in 1913, and whose other graduates included Vladimir Horowitz and Alexander Brailowsky....
Bandurists
- Bobyr AndriyBobyr AndriyAndriy Matviyevych Bobyr , People's Artist of Ukraine .Andriy Bobyr was born in the village of Nychyporivka, in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire....
- Larissa BurakLarissa BurakLarissa Burak — is a Ukrainian-Australian bandurist and mezzo-soprano singer, concert musician, soloist, and choir conductor who lives in Sydney, Australia...
- Volodymyr KushpetVolodymyr KushpetVolodymyr Kushpet is an influentian Ukrainian baritone singer, and player on torban, kobza, bandura and lira, noted reconstruction of traditional playing techniques on these instruments....
- Victor MishalowVictor MishalowVictor Mishalow is an Australian born Canadian bandurist, and educator. He is also known as a composer, conductor, and musicologist.-Biography:Born April 4, 1960, in Sydney, Australia, he graduated from the Sydney University B.A...
- Kost NovytskyKost NovytskyKostantyn Heorhiovych Novytsky, better known as Kost' Novytsky is one of the more influential bandurists in Kiev today. Originally, he studied under Andriy Omelchenko and later at the Kiev Conservatory under Serhiy Bashtan...
- Andriy OmelchenkoAndriy OmelchenkoAndriy Fedorovych Omelchenko-Biography:Omelchenko initially began to play bandura from Makar Osadchyj in Dniprodzherzhinsk and joined the bandura capella there...