Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine ( uk, Національна музична академія України імені Петра Чайковського) or Kyiv Conservatory is a Ukrainian state institution of higher music education. Its courses include

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. Located in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

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History

The Kyiv Conservatory was founded on 3 November 1913 at the

campus of the Music College of the

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. The organization of the conservatory was spearheaded by

Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one o ...

and

Alexander Glazunov Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov; ger, Glasunow (, 10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He was director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 ...

. The first directors were V. Pukhalsky (1913) and

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(1914–1920). In 1925, the junior classes were separated from the conservatory to form a Music College, while the senior classes were merged into the formerly private Music and Drama Institute of

Mykola Lysenko Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko ( uk, Мико́ла Віта́лійович Ли́сенко; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time he was the ...

(today the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University).

Viktor Kosenko Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko ( uk, Віктор Степанович Косенко; – 3 October 1938) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and educator. He was regarded by his contemporaries as a master of lyricism. His first compositions were mar ...

taught at both institutions. The conservatory was revived when Kyiv once again became the capital of Ukraine in 1934. The Music and Drama Institute of Mykola Lysenko was dissolved and its music department was merged back with the Music College, while the drama department served as the basis for creation of the Kyiv State Theater Institute of Les Kurbas. In 1938, the conservatory received the

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award. In 1940, the conservatory was named after Tchaikovsky. In 1995, the President of Ukraine elevated the conservatory's status, and renamed it the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. In 2022, after Russian invasion, the removal of Tchaikovsky's name was proposed and largely disputed.Чайковський був росіянином, НА ЧОРТА він комусь треба! Інтерв'ю з ІГОРЕМ КОНДРАТЮКОМ
// Факти ICTV. — 2022. — 22 червня. The conservatory occupies a building built in the 1890s as the Hotel Continental (built by architects Eduard Bradtman and Georg Schleifer). The building was destroyed during

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, but was rebuilt in 1955, when a concert hall was added (architects L. Katok and Ya. Krasny). It is located on Horodetsky street 1-3/11.

Rectors

* 1913–1914 Vladimir Pukhalskiy * 1914–1920

* 1920–1922 Felix Blumenfeld * 1922–1926 Kostiantyn Mykhailov * 1926–1934 ''unknown'' * 1934–1948 Abram Lufer (including the evacuation period) * 1948–1954

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* 1954–1968 Andriy Shtoharenko * 1968–1974 Ivan Lyashenko * 1974–1983 Mykola Kondratyuk * 1983–2004 Oleg Tymoshenko * 2004– 2018 Volodymyr Rozhok * 2018– Maksym Tymoshenko

Honorary Professors of the Academy

Riccardo Muti

Placido Domingo

Jack Ma

Oleh V. Krysa

Esteban Valverde Corrales

Mykola Suk

Ye Xiaogang

Jerzy Stankiewicz

References

External links

Official site of the conservatory
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