Kiev Conservatory

Kiev Conservatory
Ukrainian National Academy of Music

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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History

The Kiev Conservatory was founded in 1913 at the Kiev 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.

Professors

Theoretical faculty

Mykola Vilinsky

Vocal faculty

  • Irina Vilinska
  • Maryna Yehorycheva
  • Mykola Kondratiuk

Piano faculty

  • Liudmila Kasyanenko, piano
  • Arseniy Kotlyarevsky, organ
  • Olga Koviolova, piano
  • Igor Ryabov, piano
  • Galyna Bulybenko, organ

Orchestral Faculty

1. Strings

2. Wind

  • Volodymyr Antonov, flute

3. Folk instruments

Alumni

Composers

Conductors

Singers

Pianists

Organists

  • Paul Stetsenko, 1989

Bandurists

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