Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire is a
musical university in
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...
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Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblastʹ, p=svʲɪrdˈlofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the c ...
, Russia. The Ural State Conservatory was founded in 1934. In 1939 the Conservatory had its first graduates.
History
The Sverdlovsk Conservatory was founded in 1934. In 1939, the year of its first graduation, it was named in honour of the 100th anniversary of the outstanding composer
M. P. Mussorgsky.
In 1945 the Sverdlovsk Conservatory became the Urals Conservatory.
Faculties and institutes
There are 2 faculties and 26 basic educational programs.
Notable alumni
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Anatoliy Andreyev
Anatoliy Andreyevich Andreyev (; 10 April 1941 – 23 September 2004) was a Buryat composer of classical music. In 1995, he composed the music for the Anthem of the Republic of Buryatia, with lyrics by Damba Zhalsarayev.
Career
Andreyev was ed ...
–
Buryat composer
[L. Abasheieva (2014)]
Anatoly Andreyev: Composer and His Times
(in Russian), ''Academic Music of Siberia''
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Anastasiya Bespalova
Anastasiya Bespalova () is a Russian composer.
Biography
Bespalova is a graduate of the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire where she studied music composition under Vladimir Kobekin. In 2003 she won the First Opus young composers competition i ...
– composer
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Yuri Gulyayev – opera singer
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Marina Domashenko
Marina Domashenko (; born 1979) is a Russian operatic mezzo-soprano.
Domashenko was born into a musical family in the Siberian town Kemerovo. She graduated with honours from the Kemerovo School of Music where she studied piano and conducting, and ...
– opera singer
*
Boris Shtokolov
Boris Timofeyevich Shtokolov (; March 19, 1930 – January 6, 2005), was a famous Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian singer, one of the greatest basses of the 20th century.
Boris Shtokolov was born in the settlement of Kuzedeyevo in Gorno-Shorsky D ...
– opera singer
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Yevgeny Kolobov
Yevgeny Vladimirivich Kolobov (; 19 January 1946 – 15 June 2003) was a Russian conductor.
Career
Upon graduation from the song-school under the Glinka Chapel in Leningrad and the Urals State Conservatory, he started his career as a principal ...
– conductor, founder of the
Novaya Opera Theatre
The Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow () (''novaya'' means "new") is a theatre in Moscow, located at 3 Karetny Ryad. It was founded in 1991 by Russian conductor Yevgeny Kolobov and then Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov. It is accessible via Moscow ...
(Moscow)
* Artem Tenkeli - pianist
Notable faculty
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Vladimir Kobekin
References
External links
"Ekaterinburg Travel company about USC"
Universities in Sverdlovsk Oblast
Music schools in Russia
Buildings and structures in Yekaterinburg
Universities and colleges established in 1934
1934 establishments in the Soviet Union
Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Sverdlovsk Oblast
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