Saratov Conservatory is a music conservatory in Russia. The conservatory in

Saratov Saratov (, ; rus, Сара́тов, a=Ru-Saratov.ogg, p=sɐˈratəf) is the largest city and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River upstream (north) of Volgograd. Saratov had a population of 901 ...

, was founded in 1912, and was the first provincial conservatory to be founded in Russia, after St Petersburg Conservatory and Moscow Conservatory. Saratov was, at the time, Russia's third city. The main building of the conservatory had been built in 1902 by architect Alexander Yulyevich Yagn, and originally it housed a music school. Before the opening of the conservatory in 1912, the building was reconstructed by the architect Semyon Akimovich Kallistratov. When Saratov Conservatory opened in September 1912, it immediately had 1,000 students ready to begin their studies.Paul Du Quenoy ''Stage fright: politics and the performing arts in late Imperial Russia'' 2009 p99 In 1935 the Conservatory was named after the tenor Leonid Sobinov. Konserv saratov

Former Directors

* Stanislav Kasparovich Echsner ''(Exner, Eksner)'' (19121914) * Josef Ivanovich Slivinskii, pl, Józef Śliwiński (19141916) *

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, en, Georgi Conus (19171919) * Emil Hájek, russian: Эмиль Ярославович Гаек (19201921)

Notable teachers

* Karl Wilhelm (Vasily Georgievich) Brandt, (trumpeter) * Ivan Lipaev (trombone and music history) * Mikhail E. Medvedev, (singing) * Viktor Ivanovich Egorov, Honored Artist of Russia * Natalia Kimovna Tarasova, Honored Artist of Russia * Józef Śliwiński * Roman Moiseyev *

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Mikhail Bukinik Mykhailo Yevsiyovych Bukinik ( uk, Михайло Євсійович Букінік) (1872–1947) was a Ukrainian cellist, composer, music educator and music critic of classical music. His four concert études for the solo cello were compulso ...

* Tatiana Stepanova - ballet *

Arnold Azrikan Arnold Grigorevich Azrikan (russian: Арнольд Григорьевич Азрикан; uk, Арнольд Григорович Азрікан; February 23, 1906 – July 19, 1976) was a Soviet operatic dramatic tenor. Biography and career ...

Nisson Shkarovsky Nisson Adolfovich Shkarovsky (1904, Odessa - 1964, Moscow), was an influential conductor and teacher in the Saratov Conservatory. Biography Shkarovsky was born in Odessa in 1904, in a Jewish family that originated in Bila Tserkva. He studied in th ...

Alumni

* Alyona Apina, lead vocalist of Kombinaciya *

Fatma Mukhtarova Fatma Sattarovna Mukhtarova ( az, Fatma Muxtarova, russian: Фатьма Мухтарова; 26 March 1893 or 1898Грачева Л Годы и люди: �б. очерков Саратов, 1988. Вып. 3. С. 164-174. – 19 October 1972) was ...

* Lidia Ruslanova * Anna Yevdokimova (pen name ''Anna t'Haron'') — a Russian pianist, Artist, grant holder of the “ Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds” (

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). * Franciszek Zachara, graduated 1919

Exchange programme schools

Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" The Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" ( nl, Koninklijke Beiaardschool "Jef Denyn"; informally also the Mechelen carillon school) is a music school in Mechelen, Belgium, that specializes in the carillon. It is the first and largest carillon sc ...

Saratov Symphony Orchestra

Saratov Conservatory has an associated orchestra, the

Saratov Conservatory Symphony Orchestra Saratov (, ; rus, Сара́тов, a=Ru-Saratov.ogg, p=sɐˈratəf) is the largest city and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River upstream (north) of Volgograd. Saratov had a population of 90 ...

founded in 1912, which traditionally shares its chief conductor with the

Saratov Philharmonic Orchestra Saratov (, ; rus, Сара́тов, a=Ru-Saratov.ogg, p=sɐˈratəf) is the largest city and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River upstream (north) of Volgograd. Saratov had a population of 901,3 ...

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