The Gnessin State Musical College (Государственный музыкальный колледж имени Гнесиных) and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music (Российская академия музыки имени Гнесиных) is a prominent music school

Music school

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 in Moscow

Moscow

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, Russia

Russia

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. It was established on February 15, 1895 by the sisters Eugenia, Helena, and Maria Gnessin, who had graduated as pianists from the Moscow Conservatory

Moscow Conservatory

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 with great distinction. The college has been considered an elite music school ever since.

Alumni

In alphabetical order:

• Georgy Yakovlevich Andryushchenko
  Alexandrov Ensemble soloists
  This is an alphabetical list of the basso profondo, bass, bass-baritone and tenor soloists who have performed with the Alexandrov Ensemble since its establishment in 1928. It is difficult to differentiate between regular and guest soloists, since many have alternated between the one category and...
  
  , Russian opera singer
• Yulianna Avdeeva
  Yulianna Avdeeva
  Yulianna Avdeeva is a Russian concert pianist.Beginning her studies at the age of five, she studied at the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow, and graduated from Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. After her graduation, she became assistant to her teacher, Konstantin Scherbakov. Since 2008...
  
  , Russian pianist
• Evgeny Belyaev
  Evgeny Belyaev
  Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev, also written as Yevgeny Belyayev , was a Russian tenor soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble under Boris Alexandrov...
  
  , Russian singer
• Boris Berezovsky
  Boris Berezovsky (pianist)
  - Biography :Berezovsky studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Eliso Virsaladze and privately with Alexander Satz. Following his London début at the Wigmore Hall in 1988, The Times described him as "an artist of exceptional promise, a player of dazzling virtuosity and formidable power."In May 2005...
  
  , Russian pianist
• Alexandr Brill, Russian jazz saxophonist
• Dmitri Brill, Russian jazz saxophonist
• Ivan S. Bukreev, Russian singer
• Roberto Cani
  Roberto Cani
  Roberto Salvatore Cani is an Italian violinist.Roberto Cani was a prizewinner in the Paganini , Jeunesses Musicales , and Courcillon International Competitions....
  
  , Italian violinist
• Boris Elkis
  Boris Elkis
  Boris Elkis is a Russian composer. He has studied at the Gnessins music academy.- Filmography :*A Perfect Getaway - original music*Street Kings - music programmer*Darfur Now - music programmer*Days of Wrath - music programmer...
  
  , Russian composer
• Ivan Farmakovsky
  Ivan Farmakovsky
  Ivan Farmakovsky is a Russian jazz pianist, composer and arranger.-Biography:Born into a creative family of an actress and pianist, Ivan Farmakovsky attended a musical school under the studio of recreation center “Moskvorechie” since the age of 5...
  
  , Russian jazz pianist and composer
• Alexander Goldstein
  Alexander Goldstein
  Alexander Goldstein , also credited as Aleksandr Goldshteyn and Aleksandr Goldstein in films, is a Russian-American music composer, conductor, songwriter, record producer, film producer, director, editor and is the founder of ABG World and SportMusic.com...
  
  , Russian composer
• Alina Ibragimova
  Alina Ibragimova
  Alina Ibragimova is a Russian-born violinist residing in the UK.-Early life and education:Ibragimova was born in Polevskoy, Russia in a Tatar family. Her family was musical, and she began playing the violin at the age of four...
  
  , Russian violinist
• Alexander Ivashkin
  Alexander Ivashkin
  Alexander Ivashkin , born in Blagoveshchensk, Russia is a cellist, writer and conductor residing in the UK.- Biography :...
  
  , Russian cellist
• Eugene Izotov
  Eugene Izotov
  Eugene Izotov is a Russian-born oboist and recording artist. He is currently the Principal Oboist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra appointed by Daniel Barenboim in 2005. First Russian-born oboist in any major U.S. symphony orchestra. Faculty member of DePaul University, Roosevelt University, ...
  
  , Russian oboist
• Mungonzazal Janshindulam
  Mungonzazal Janshindulam
  Mungonzazal Janshindulam , also known as "Mungo", was a Mongolian pianist and music teacher who lived and taught up until her death in Düsseldorf and Dortmund, Germany...
  
  , Mongolian pianist
• Yuriy Karnyushin, Russian singer
• Yuri Katz
  Yuri Katz
  Yuri Katz, is a Ukraine-born American musician, arranger, and music producer.Katz worked on different recording projects by DJ Felli Fel, Jamie Kennedy and Stu Stone Howard McCrary, Ya Boy, BooSkills and others.Born on July 15, 1973 to a musician mother...
  
  , Israeli-American music producer
• Sati Kazanova
  Sati Kazanova
  Sataney Setgalievna Kazanova , better known as Sati Kazanova , was born on October 2, 1982 in Kabardino-Balkaria. She is one of the three vocalists of the Russian pop girl group Fabrika...
  
  , Russian singer
• Yakov Kazyansky
  Yakov Kazyansky
  Yakov Kazyansky is a Russian musician. He has been named an Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation ....
  
  , Russian composer and jazz pianist
• Evgeny Kissin
  Evgeny Kissin
  Evgeny Igorevitch Kissin is a Russian classical pianist and former child prodigy. He has been a British citizen since 2002. He is especially known for his interpretations of the works of the Romantic repertoire, particularly Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt.-Biography:Kissin was born in Moscow to...
  
  , Russian pianist
• Lev Knipper
  Lev Knipper
  Lev Konstantinovich Knipper , a Russian composer of partially German descent and an active OGPU - NKVD agent.Lev Knipper was the nephew of the actress Olga Knipper...
  
  , Russian composer and NKVD
  NKVD
  The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....
  
   agent
• Alexander Knyazev, Russian cellist
• Joseph Kobzon
  Joseph Kobzon
  Iosif Davydovich Kobzon is a Soviet and Russian singer, known for his crooner style.-Early life:Kobzon was born to Jewish parents in the mining town of Chasiv Yar, in the Donbass region of Ukraine....
  
  , Legendary Russian vocalist
• Oleg Kroll, Russian jazz pianist
• Elena Kuznetsova, Russian pianist and teacher
• Edward M. Labkovsky, Russian singer
• Irina Lankova
  Irina Lankova
  Irina Lankova is a Russian concert pianist. After studies in Moscow, she moved to Brussels where she continued her studies and built her reputation by winning several awards and by participation in various festivals. In 2006 she moved to England with her British husband with whom she has two...
  
  , Russian pianist
• Konstantin Lifschitz, Russian pianist
• Oleg Maisenberg
  Oleg Maisenberg
  -Early life and career:Born 29 April 1945 to a Jewish family in Odessa, Oleg Maisenberg received his first piano lessons from his mother at the age of five. He completed his studies at the Central Music School Kishinev and at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow with Professor Jocheles...
  
  , Russian pianist
• Eduardo Mirabal, Venezuelan pianist and teacher
• Maxim Mironov
  Maxim Mironov
  Maxim Mironov is an operatic tenor, best known for his interpretation of the bel canto repertoire. After graduating from the Moscow Gnessin State Musical College in he joined the Helikon Opera Theatre in Moscow...
  
  , Russian tenor
• Michael Miropolsky, Russian violinist and conductor
• Roman Moiseyev
  Roman Moiseyev
  Roman Yurevich Moiseyev is a Russian conductor.Roman Moiseyev was born in Moscow, Russia. He received a solid musical education at the Academic College of Music with the Moscow State Conservatory, and later at the Russian Gnesin Academy of Music and Moscow State Conservatory with Gennady...
  
  , Russian conductor
• Quynh Nguyen
  Quynh Nguyen
  Quynh Nguyen is a classical pianist of Vietnamese descent. She started piano at age four, and was nine years old when she gave her first recital...
  
  , Vietnamese pianist
• Yury Nugmanov, Russian guitar player
• Yakov Okun, Russian jazz pianist
• Boris Parsadanian
  Boris Parsadanian
  Boris Parsadanian was an Armenian-Estonian composer.Born in Kislovodsk, Russia, his initial studies were conducted under Litinsky at the Studio of the Armenian House of Culture. His studies were interrupted by World War II, for which he was decorated for his service...
  
  , Armenian-Estonian composer
• Alla Pavlova
  Alla Pavlova
  Alla Pavlova is a Russian composer of Ukrainian origin, best known for her symphonic work. Pavlova currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.-Soviet life:...
  
  , American composer
• Kristina Rozhkova, Russian harpist
• Vadim L. Ruslanov, Russian singer
• Alexei T. Sergeev, Russian singer
• Vissarion Shebalin
  Vissarion Shebalin
  Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin was a Soviet composer.-Biography:Shebalin was born in Omsk, where his parents were school teachers. He studied in the musical college in Omsk. He was 20 years old when, following the advice of his professor, he went to Moscow to show his first compositions to...
  
  , Russian composer
• Natalia Sheludiakova
  Natalia Sheludiakova
  Natalia Sheludiakova is a lecturer and concert performer, currently teaching at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.-Biography:Natalia Sheludiakova studied piano in Moscow with Professor Oleg Boshniakovich at the Gnessin Institute...
  
  , Russian-Australian pianist and teacher
• Anatoly Sheludyakov
  Anatoly Sheludyakov
  Anatoly Sheludyakov is a classical pianist and composer. He was born in Moscow, Russia, where he completed his doctoral studies under professor Anatoly Vedernikov at the Gnesin Institute of Music. He also graduated from the Moscow Conservatory where he studied composition with Tikhon Khrennikov...
  
  , Russian pianist
• Vladimir Shkaptsov, Russian singer
• Vladislav Shoot
  Vladislav Shoot
  Vladislav Shoot is a Russian-British composer of contemporary classical music...
  
  , Russian composer
• Alexander S. Sibirtsev, Russian singer
• Viktor Suslin
  Viktor Suslin
  Viktor Yevseyevich Suslin |Ural]], Russia ) is a Russian composer living in Germany as of 1981.-Biography:At the age of four , Suslin began to study piano and made his first attempts at composition. From 1950 to 1962 he attended Kharkiv Music High School, and from 1961 to 1962 at Kharkiv...
  
  , Russian composer
• Svoy
  Svoy
  Svoy is a multi-Independent Music Award winning recording and performing music artist in the genre of pop/electronica. He has three self-produced albums released via Mack Avenue Records/Sony Music Entertainment, P-Vine Records/Blues Interactions and Thistime Records, respectively...
  
  , Russian-American songwriter/producer
• Valentina Tolkunova
  Valentina Tolkunova
  Valentina Tolkunova was a Soviet and Russian singer and was bestowed the title of Honored Artist of RSFSR and People's Artist of RSFSR . Her performances exhibited a kindhearted mood and sincerity, and her voice was noted for its clarity....
  
  , Russian singer
• Daniil Trifonov
  Daniil Trifonov
  -Biography:Trifonov is a top prize winner of several major international piano competitions, including the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
  
  , Russian pianist
• Dmitriy Varshavskiy, Russian hard-rock/heavy metal singer and guitar player; one of the first musicians in USSR who started playing heavy music professionally
• Yulia Volkova, Russian singer from the group t.A.T.u.
• Aleksey Volodin
  Aleksey Volodin
  Alexei Volodin is a Russian pianist.He was born in St. Petersburg, and began taking piano lessons there at the age of nine. A year later he moved to Moscow, where he studied first with Irina Chaklina and later with Tatiana Zelikman at the Gnessin Music School...
  
  , Russian pianist
• Igor Zubkovsky
  Igor Zubkovsky
  -Education:Igor Zubkovsky started playing cello at the Gnessin Music School in Moscow and first appeared as a soloist with the at the age of twelve, performing Haydn C Major Cello Concerto....
  
  , Russian cellist

Faculty

Faculty (university)

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• Timofei Dokschitzer
  Timofei Dokschitzer
  Timofei Aleksandrovich Dokschitzer was a Soviet Russian trumpeter, Professor of Gnesins Musical College. He was the solo-trumpeter of Bolshoi Theater....
  
  , Russian-Ukrainian trumpeter
• Mikhail Fikhtengoltz
  Mikhail fikhtengoltz
  Mikhail Izrailevich Fichtenholz - was a Soviet violinist. A pupil of the eminent pedagogue Pyotr Stolyarsky, he won the national competition for young performers in Leningrad Mikhail Izrailevich Fichtenholz (1 June 1920 - d. 1985) - was a Soviet violinist. A pupil of the eminent pedagogue Pyotr...
  
  , Russian violinist
• Alexander Frautschi, Russian guitarist
• Grigori Gamburg, Russian conductor
• Mikhail Gnesin
  Mikhail Gnesin
  Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin was a Russian Jewish composer and teacher.-Life:Gnesin was born in Rostov-on-Don and came from a musical family. His sisters founded the Gnessin State Musical College , in Moscow in 1895. He studied at the St...
  
  , Russian composer and brother of founding sisters
• Maria Grinberg
  Maria Grinberg
  Maria Grinberg , was a Ukrainian pianist and teacher....
  
  , Russian-Ukrainian pianist
• Anna Kantor, Russian pianist
• Aram Khachaturian
  Aram Khachaturian
  Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...
  
  , Armenian composer
• Alexander Kobrin
  Alexander Kobrin
  Alexander Kobrin is a Russian pianist.At age five, he enrolled in the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow where his primary teacher was Tatiana Zelikman...
  
  , Russian pianist
• Georg Orentlicher, professor of chamber and vocal accompaniment, 1960s−1970s.

External links

• Gnesin Official website (English)
• Current Gnesin Academy website (Russian)
• Gnessin State Musical College website (Russian)