Rostov State Conservatory named after S. V. Rakhmaninov

The Rostov Conservatory was opened in 1967 as the Rostov State Music and Pedagogical Institute, and in 1992 it was transformed into the Rostov State Conservatory with the name of S. V. Rakhmaninov. In 2004, the conservatory was given the status of the Academy ^[1] .

Rostov Conservatory is an educational institution of musical culture and art of the North Caucasus and the South of Russia. She trained 4,000 specialists - pianists, conductors, choirmasters, composers, musicologists, opera and chamber singers, performers on all orchestral strings, wind and percussion, folk instruments, pop and jazz musicians. More than 400 of them became laureates of international, All-Union, All-Russian competitions, 70 were awarded honorary titles of the Russian Federation in the field of culture and art, 60 defended dissertations, 25 - professors, 50 - associate professors of various domestic and foreign universities.

For two decades, the only conservatory has provided training for highly qualified personnel for music institutions and educational institutions at all levels of southern Russia. A significant part of the Rostov organization of the Union of Composers of Russia and its leaders are graduates of the conservatory.

In 1982, the first in the USSR department of pop-jazz music was opened at the Russian State Concert Committee, headed by the country's first professor of pop and jazz music (1989) Kim Nazaretov ^[2] .

In 1998, the Conservatory became the laureate of the contest “Window to Russia” in the nomination “Institute of Arts of the Year”, held by the Kultura newspaper, and also the owner of a special award of the all-Russian state television channel “Culture”. In 1992, the conservatory began regular publishing activities, and in 2002, the publishing department was organized. In 1993, in the structure of the conservatory, the Lyceum was opened - 11-year-old for especially gifted children - now the 11-year-old Secondary Special Music School (College), which made it possible to purposefully prepare talented children from an early age to enter university. In 1993, a postgraduate study was opened in the specialty 17.00.02 - Musical art and assistant-internship (postgraduate study) in all creative-performing specialties. Since 1995, the Southern Interdisciplinary Center (now the Institute) of continuing education and professional retraining for specialists of creative professions has functioned, in which about 2,000 students from higher and secondary specialized educational institutions and cultural and art institutions of the North Caucasus and the South Russian region have improved their skills.

In 1994, the Dissertation Council was opened to award the degree of the candidate of art history in the specialty 17.00.02 - musical art. Rostov Conservatory became the first regional university in Russia, where such advice began. Since 2007, the Council has the right to take up the defense of not only PhD, but also doctoral theses.

Over the period of the thesis over 70 musicians defended. The works were performed not only at the Rostov Conservatory, but also at the State Institute of Art Studies (Moscow), at the Moscow, Astrakhan, Saratov, Petrozavodsk Conservatories, the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences named after Gnesinykh, Tambov Music Pedagogical Institute. S.V. Rakhmaninov, Ufa Institute of Arts. The age of applicants at the time of protection from 26 to 66 years. Now they work in Moscow, Rostov, Taganrog, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Kursk, Maikop, Makhachkala, Orel, Saratov, Stavropol, Petrozavodsk, Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Ufa, Khanty-Mansiysk, and also Colombia, China

The defining characteristic of a creative high school is its artistic activity. Its main components: concert work, musical science (musicology), composer creativity.

Already in the first months of the establishment of the university, when there were only about 70 students, and the faculty was still not fully formed, the first poster concerts took place and a scientific conference was held. Today, the Rostov Conservatory annually carries out major concert projects, is the center of research and methodological thought in the field of musical art in the South of Russia.

The first vice-rector for scientific and concert work was NF Orlov . Then in different years this post was occupied by M. N. Sayamov , N. F. Tiftikidi , G. R. Taraeva , E. G. Shevlyakov , V. M. Guzii . From 1991 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2007, the scientific and concert activity of the Conservatory was headed by Doctor of Art History, Honored Art Worker of Russia, Professor A. M. Tsuker . Since 2007, these functions have been separated: A. M. Zucker retained the leadership of scientific work (from 2007 to 2010); composer, professor G. Yu. Tolstenko was appointed assistant rector for concert and creative work ^[3] .

Scientific and creative activities of the Conservatory complements the work of the dissertation council, graduate school, the department of editing and information, concert and advertising department. As part of this activity, research and scientifically-methodical work of teachers and students, the organization and holding of scientific conferences, concerts and festivals, the preparation and defense of master's theses, the publication of scientific and methodological works are carried out.

It has become a tradition to hold international, All-Russian festivals and in parallel - scientific conferences devoted to a common theme. Among the most significant such actions are “Domestic culture of the 20th century and sacred music”, “ Mozart - Prokofiev ”, “Rakhmaninov days in Rostov”, “Household musical culture: history and modernity”, “The musical world of romanticism: from past to future” , “ Schubert - XX Century”, “Art at the Turn of the Centuries”, “The Musical Culture of the Orthodox World”, “The Musical Culture of the Christian World” (to the 2000th anniversary of the Nativity of Christ), “Music in the Information World”, “Early Music Today”, Conference “Music and musician in a changing socioculum space-temperature "and the festival" One World Music "," Tribute to Dmitry Shostakovich . To the 100th anniversary of the birth ”,“ Mozart and Mozartianism ”. Such conferences are accompanied by open lectures, seminars, master classes, exhibitions, excursions. Within each conference there is a student section.

The festival of children's choral art "Singers of the Third Millennium" is held regularly; From the first to the third, it was conducted as All-Russian, the fourth and fifth gained international status. All-Russian festivals dedicated to the leading sectoral newspaper “Musical Review”, festivals “Rostov Jazz: Past, Present, Future”, “Dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Great Victory” were also held.

A wide range of topical issues in various areas of music science and education was discussed at the conferences “Issues of Improving Music Education and Upbringing”, “History, Theory and Practice of Performing on Wind and Percussion Instruments”, “30 Years of Conservatory Science”, “Teaching Aids and Educational Materials in the educational process of children's schools, schools, universities: state and prospects ”; “Days of Science at the Rostov Conservatory”, dedicated to the anniversary of the dissertation council, “ M.I. Glinka and world culture. To the 200th anniversary of the birth ”,“ Musical content: modern scientific interpretation ”.

In 2002, the Rakhmaninov-Losev Creative Research and Educational Center, headed by Professor N.V. Beketova, began its work at the RGC. For the past 10 years, the center has been studying, preserving and promoting the creative heritage of S. V. Rakhmaninov and A. F. Losev .

Conservatories held an international festival of contemporary music " Rostov Premieres ", which is attended by the greatest composers of our days. Concert programs are focused on compositions of living world-class masters who have never sounded in Rostov, in the presence of the authors.

"Rostov premieres" - a project that became at the beginning of the XXI century a kind of calling card of the university. Rostov Conservatory initiated and the main driving force of such a festival in 2001.

The first festival included 7 concerts, the second - 10, the third - 18.

Concert activity of the conservatory has a great musical and educational significance. Each concert season is marked by an expansion of the geography of performances and an increase in their number - up to 800 or more concerts annually.

The geography of performances of soloists, ensembles, large groups covers the entire region of southern Russia (Rostov, Taganrog, Shakhty, Volgodonsk, Novocherkassk, Krasnodar, Sochi, Mineralnye Vody, Pyatigorsk, Kislovodsk, Yessentuki, Stavropol, Maikop, Vladikavkaz, etc.). Concerts are held in many cities of Russia - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tambov, Salekhard, Labinsk, Saransk, Novy Urengoy, Konakovo, the near abroad - Ukraine (Kiev, Vorzel, Lviv, Donetsk, Severodonetsk), Belarus (Minsk, Osipovichi), and also in the cities of Austria, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Finland, France, Japan, USA, Ecuador. Successful tours, participation in international competitions and festivals are an indicator of the high professional skills of the best soloists and conservatory collectives.

Many leading teachers working in all performing departments of the Conservatory are known in the country and abroad as highly professional soloists. Concert-performing activity of teachers is aimed at promoting the academic musical art. Many programs and concert cycles are focused on the widest audience of listeners, including children and youth.

Performing teachers participated in the stock records on radio and television. Domestic and foreign companies released dozens of compact discs with the participation of conservatory teachers (publicly presented and recorded on audio and video media concerts, according to the order of the Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science, are equal to monographs).

More than 25 artistic groups of different styles and compositions conduct active concert activities. Among them are the orchestras: symphonic (artistic. And conductor: national artist of Russia, prof. S. A. Kogan), folk instruments (prof. Yu. B. Mashin), wind instruments (associate professor V. E. Vilinov), jazz orchestra - big band (prof. P. K. Nazaretov and A. N. Oleinikov). The teachers of the choir conducting department chair more than 10 choirs: a large choir of the Conservatory and a male choir (Professor Yu. I. Vasilyev), a female and chamber choir (Professor G. V. Khoroshailo), a children's choir of the college at the Russian State Committee and the Don choir "Anastasia" (Prof. S. A. Tarakanov), choir of the Rostov Musical Theater (honored art worker of Russia, prof. E. Klinichev), Synthesis Choir "Singers of the Quiet Don" (People's Artist of Russia, Prof. V. I. Goncharov ), the choir of children's music school. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov (Distinguished worker of the Higher School of Russia, Prof. E. Ya. Khodosh), choir of the children's music school named after P. I. Tchaikovsky (honored worker of the All-Russian Musical Society, Associate Professor E. V. Sedykh), folk choir (Honored Artist of Russia, Professor L. A. Melnichenko and R. Kvasova). The Conservatory Opera Studio annually presents full-fledged opera performances - on the chamber stage of a musical theater, in costumes, with the participation of a symphony orchestra.

The scientific interests of musicologists in the conservatory are centered around several research areas, the problems of which fully correspond to the priorities of modern music science and art history in general:

• history of domestic and foreign music in the context of culture;
• music of the XX-XXI centuries (the study of the creativity of modern domestic and foreign composers);
• mass genres (operetta, jazz, rock music, art song, etc.) and their interaction with the academic;
• Russian and Western European sacred music;
• music theory (research in the field of polyphony, harmony, semantics of musical language, genre, form, thematism, language, orchestral writing);
• aesthetics and philosophy of art;
• the culture of the Don region and the steppe Ciscaucasia;
• music education, pedagogy, methods;
• musical performance, psychology of creative activity (musical abilities, creative adaptation of performers, the role of the conscious and unconscious in the activities of the musician).

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Rostov Conservatory has been engaged in publishing. In 2002, an editorial and publishing department was organized under the Vice-Rector for Research (now the Editing and Information Department), headed by Doctor of Art History, prof. A. Ya. Selitsky. P

In 2011, the festival “Music and Youth: Composers of the Don and the North Caucasus - to Students” was held.

International activity is developing in several directions. The university has all the conditions for training foreign citizens: students, graduate students and interns from China, Japan and Ukraine are trained. Here they can defend dissertations. Musicians from different countries participate in international festivals and scientific conferences. Lectures, private lessons with prominent foreign musicians of various specialties - composers, conductors, vocalists, piano, violin, cello, wind instruments, musicologists ( England , Belarus , Belgium , Germany, Georgia, Italy, Iran , Canada, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Poland, USA, Tajikistan, Ukraine, France, Switzerland, Scotland).

Creative and educational ties with the State Royal Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow (Scotland) have been developing in recent years. Back in the 1980s, under the cultural ties of Rostov with the twin city of Glasgow, students and teachers of the Russian State Culture Committee regularly gave concerts in Scotland, and Scottish musicians performed at the conservatory. In the 1990s, two-month internships for students of the Academy in the specialties of piano, alto, cello, chamber ensemble and one-month internship for two professors from Scotland in the Russian State Committee took place. In turn, the students of the conservatory during their stay in Glasgow received advice and master classes at the Scottish Academy.

In the 2000s, there were two visits of the delegation of the Academy of Music and Drama to Rostov and the return visit of the rector of the Russian State Committee, prof. A. S. Danilov in Glasgow. The Partnership Program in the field of musical culture and education was signed, providing for the development of cooperation in all areas of activity, primarily in the field of opera, jazz, traditional musical culture (folklore), composition, and the exchange of teachers and students.

In May 2010, the Rostov Conservatory held a two-week international festival of contemporary music, dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Victory with the premiere performances of works by composers from the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition (USA, UK, France, Russia).

• Symphony Orchestra
• Chorus
• Opera Studio
• Wind Orchestra
• Orchestra of folk instruments
• Big band
• Rostov Chamber Choir
• Don choir "Anastasia"
• Folk Choir of the Conservatory
• Female and Chamber Choirs
• Synthesis choir "Singers of the Quiet Don"
• Children's choir

• Rector - Mikhail Petrovich Savchenko , People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor.
• Vice Rector for Academic Affairs - Elena Vladimirovna Shownnik, Professor.
• Vice Rector for Research - Alexandra Vladimirovna Krylova , Doctor of Cultural Studies, Professor.
• Pro-rector on concert and creative work, advisor to the rector - Alexander Stepanovich Danilov , people's artist of the Russian Federation, professor.
• The dean of the faculties of DVIMiK and orchestral - Miran Kegamovich Argusov , professor.
• Dean of primary and secondary special education, director of the SSMS (college) - Alexey Alexandrovich Hevelev , associate professor.
• The chairman of the trade union committee is Galina Muradyan , honored worker of the All-Russian Musical Society, associate professor.
• Dean on educational work - Alexey Alexandrovich Hevelev , Associate Professor.
• The dean of the faculties of piano, orchestral, DVIMiK, sound engineering departments - Vitaly Semenovich Khodosh , Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, professor, composer.

• Department of Special Piano
• Department of stringed instruments
• Department of Wind and Percussion Instruments
• Department of orchestral and opera conducting
• Department of solo singing
• Department of Opera Training
• Department of Choral Conducting
• Department of Music History
• Department of Theory of Music and Composition
• Department of folk instruments
• Department of pop-jazz music
• Department of Chamber Ensemble and accompaniment training
• Department of Social Sciences and Humanities
• Department of General Piano
• Department of Information and Educational Technologies
• Department of Innovative Pedagogy
• Department of Music Management
• Department of musical sound engineering

The conservatory building, the former Yablokov Profitable House, is an architectural monument of regional importance. The author of the building project is the architect Durbach, Nikolay Nikitich ^[4] . The building facing the Bolshaya Sadovaya Street was built in 1901 at the expense of the merchant Yablokov, the building facing the Budennovsky Avenue was built in 1952. The author of the project of this attached building with columns was a Rostov architect XX Chalhushyan. Earlier this place was the home of M.F. Miroshnichenko.

At various times, the Europe Hotel, the Lor cafeteria, the Leningrad Textile syndicate, a wine warehouse, communal apartments, the Rostov State Pedagogical Institute, and others were in Yablokov’s house. The building was rebuilt in 1968–1971. Institute "Rostovgrazhdanproekt". In the building on Budennovsky Prospekt, previously there were the School of Arts, Clubs of philatelists and chess players, a gym, on the upper floors were the organizations "Forestry" and "Agricultural Machinery"

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