The Belarusian State Academy of Music (''Беларуская дзяржаўная акадэмія музыкі'') is the primary music and higher education institution and research center of musicology, folklore, aesthetics, music pedagogy in Belarus, based in Minsk.
Minsk had earlier had a conservatory, Minsk Conservatory. It was founded in 1932 and up to 1992 was known as the Belarusian State Conservatory. In 2000 the Belarusian Academy of Music was granted status as the leading institution of the national system of education in the field of musical art, alongside the
Belarusian State Academy of Arts
The Belarusian State Academy of Arts (; ) is a state-owned institution of higher education in Minsk, Belarus. The Belarusian State Academy of Arts has status as a leading institution of the national system of art and cultural education alongside ...
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Rectors
* M. Kazakov (1932-1933)
* J. Pris (1933-1934)
* Konstantin Bogushevich (1934-1936)
* Oscar Gantman (1937-1938)
* Mikhail Berger (1938-1941)
* Nikolai Aladov (1944-1948)
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Anatoly Bogatyrev
Anatoly Vasilyevich Bogatyrev (, ; – 19 September 2003) was a Soviet and Belarusian composer and music teacher, seen as one of the leaders of the national school of Belarusian music.
Biography
Bogatyrev was born in Vitebsk Russian Empire ...
(1948-1962)
* Vladimir Olovnikov (1962-1982)
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Igor Luchenok (1982-1985)
* Mikhail Kozinets (1985-2005)
* Alexander Rashchupkin (2005-2010)
* Ekaterina Dulova (2010-2022)
* Elena Kurakina (2022-present)
Notable alumni
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Mieczysław Weinberg
Mieczysław Weinberg (December 8, 1919 – February 26, 1996) was a Polish, Soviet, and Russian composer and pianist. Born in Warsaw to parents who worked in the Yiddish theatre in Poland, his early years were surrounded by music. He taught him ...
- taught and studied composition 1939-41
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Anatoly Bogatyrev
Anatoly Vasilyevich Bogatyrev (, ; – 19 September 2003) was a Soviet and Belarusian composer and music teacher, seen as one of the leaders of the national school of Belarusian music.
Biography
Bogatyrev was born in Vitebsk Russian Empire ...
- composer, founder of the modern Belarusian school of composition, a professor of the Belarusian State Music Academy, People's Artist of Belarus
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Eta Tyrmand, composer and music teacher
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Max Fishman
Max Shakhnovich Fishman (Polish: Mieczysław (Mietek) Fiszman /Fischman/; Romanian: Max Fișman; Russian: Макс Шахнович Фишман, known as Max Benovich Fishman), (December 12, 1915—September 24, 1985) was a Moldavian Sovi ...
- pianist, composer and music teacher
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Angelina Tkatcheva - virtuoso cimbalom player
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Igor Luchenok - composer, People's Artist of the USSR
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Zinaida Mozheiko - ethnomusicologist, field researcher of Belarusian folk music
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Dmitry Smolski - composer, guitarist and composer, father of Victor Smolski
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Maria Kalesnikava
Maria Kalesnikava (Marya Alyaksandrauna Kalesnikava / Maria Aleksandrovna Kolesnikova; born 24 April 1982) is a Belarusian professional flutist and political activist. In 2020, she headed Viktar Babaryka's electoral campaign during the presid ...
- Music teacher, political activist
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Vyacheslav Kuznetsov - Belarusian composer
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Yadviga Poplavskaya
Yadviga Konstantinovna Poplavskaya (, born 1 May 1949) is a Soviet and Belarusian singer, member of the first ensemble Verasy and a People’s Artist of Belarus (2005).
Biography
Born into a musical family, her father, choirmaster Konstantin ...
- singer, member of the group "Verasy"
* - violinist
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Marina Starostenkova - pianist, concertmaster and music teacher
Notable teachers
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Anatoly Bogatyrev
Anatoly Vasilyevich Bogatyrev (, ; – 19 September 2003) was a Soviet and Belarusian composer and music teacher, seen as one of the leaders of the national school of Belarusian music.
Biography
Bogatyrev was born in Vitebsk Russian Empire ...
- the founder of the modern Belarusian school of composition, composer, educator, social activist, Distinguished Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1940), winner of the State Prize (1941), Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1944)
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Eta Tyrmand, composer and music teacher
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Vladimir Perlin
Vladimir Pavlovich Perlin (; born 1 March 1942) is a Soviet and Belarusian cellist and pedagogue.
Biography
Vladimir Perlin was born in Frunze to ''Berta Borisovna Fidlon'' and ''Pavel Grigorievich Perlin'', who had escaped from Siege of L ...
- cellist, Professor, Honored Artist of the Republuc of Belarus
* Leonid Petrovich Yushkevich - Professor, pianist, piano teacher
References
External links
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Belarusian State Academy of Music
Universities and colleges established in 1932
1932 establishments in Belarus