Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory named after MI Glinka: address, faculties, terms of training

Founded in 1946, the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory (until 1990 - the Gorky State) almost immediately took the place of one of the best musical universities in the country. First of all, it is the merit of a remarkable team of teachers - graduates of the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatoires, by the time the already well-known musicians and literate theoreticians began to work.

At the origins

The whole world knows these names: AP Stogorsky, IV Sposobin, AA Kasyanov, BS Veprinsky, SL and AL Lazersony, NN Poluektova, D. V Zhitomirsky, MV Tropinskaya, GR Ginzburg, MS Pekelis, Ya. I. Zak, Ya. V. Flier, VA Shcherbinin, VP Portugalov, OK Eiges , AV Brown, AA Nesterov, BS Marantz, II Kats, IB Gusman. They have raised the educational level, which the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory maintains to this day.

It is hardly possible to find a more authoritative music and public figure, which was the first rector - AA Kogan, who in 1950 was replaced by the most beautiful musicologist and pianist GS Dombayev, who was also an excellent organizer. His initiatives in every possible way helped the university to remain among the leading ones and to take ever more deserving place every year. The Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory in 1957 received the honorary name of the composer M. I. Glinka.

Climb

Already by the sixties in the conservatory excellent musical traditions were formed, basic pedagogical schools were established, and in 1965 the system of further education - postgraduate education - was established. Earlier, the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory decorated its Great Concert Hall with the organ of the German firm "Alexander Shuke", the students received an increasingly comfortable building for classes and new hostels.

The organ in the hall of the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatoire did not stand idle. Lessons in the class of Honored Artist of the USSR, Professor GI Kozlova were extremely popular, many people wanted to get to her class. And, of course, not only to her. But the competition of entrants Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory has always been very large. Teachers of all directions worked exceptionally strongly, their students had no equal at the All-Union contests and festivals of contemporary music. Especially well it was shown by the festival named after D. D. Shostakovich in 1964.

Theorists

Twenty-one years, since 1972, the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory. Glinka flourished under the leadership of the famous composer, People's Artist of the USSR, Professor AA Nesterov. In those years the Composer's department was very bright, there was a strong music school, collections of articles and scientific works were published that became widely known: "Problems of Modern Music", "Problems of Analysis of Music" and many others. One of the most interesting areas for Nizhny Novgorod musicians has been developing rapidly - it's musicology. Faculty in many ways was the pioneer.

In the seventies the Grand Concert Hall of the Gorky Conservatory presented mankind with the first performances of Schnittke's works, Rachmaninov's spiritual music, the music of Kastalsky, Chesnokov, and also some Western composers. Each such concert was an opening and affirmed the general opinion about this university as a bold and honest pioneer and prohibited masterpieces, and undeservedly forgotten authors.

New time

Since 1994, an outstanding conductor, People's Artist of Russia and Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod, Professor LK Sivukhin has been elected to the post of rector. It was then that the university entrusted to him acquired extensive ties with music universities abroad and international status. Now students and trainees from Syria, Japan, France, Denmark, China, the USA, and Jamaica are studying at the Conservatory.

In 1996 NNGK was headed by the conductor and composer, Honored Art Worker, People's Artist of Russia, member of the Academy of Humanities, laureate of many awards and chevalier of orders, Professor E. B. Fertelmeister. Since that moment, the development of the university has flowed in all directions, and integration into the musical culture of the world has acquired new momentum. The authority of NNGK has significantly increased, and in 2005 the university receives the status of an academy. Conservatory and externally changed: the facade, walls, interiors have become modern, but the atmosphere of creative coziness, created initially, has been preserved in its entirety.

Areas of activity

Now NNGK is the largest center of musical culture in the entire Volga region, providing the federal district with musical, educational, and scientific activities, which has been repeatedly awarded with various grants: the Humanitarian Science Foundation of Russia, the Open Society Institute, Goethe Institute, and scholarships DAAD and many others. In addition, NNGK additionally receives financial support from the state. This allows you to financially support the teaching and accompanist staff, to intensify their creative work.

Specialists receive higher education in two areas: "education and pedagogy" and "culture and art", which include nine specialties and fourteen specializations. Programs of post-graduate professional education: postgraduate studies in the fields of creative and performing and scientific - "musical art".

Innovations

The best educational programs of innovative Russia were recognized as being implemented in NNGK, among them the following:

• Program of instrumental performance: piano, organ; Orchestral drums and wind instruments; Orchestral string instruments, orchestral folk instruments (the chair of folk instruments).
• Programs on vocal art: folk singing, academic singing.
• Programs for conducting: opera and symphony orchestra, academic choir, military brass band.

More than seven hundred students study at the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory, seventy graduate students and candidates for titles. Time requires innovations, and they are widely introduced. New faculties and specialties were opened: "acting art", "musical sound engineering", "musical pedagogy". New are the specialization of opera and symphony conducting, directions "music and applied art" and "musicology", profiles "music journalism in the media", "musicology" and "musical pedagogy."

Conditions of education

Students study in quite comfortable conditions, which allow them to fully immerse themselves in creativity: rehearsal bases, publishing complex, library, recording studio, hostels - all this accompanies the accumulation of theoretical knowledge and purely professional skills. Great opportunities for improving performance skills. More than two hundred teachers of the highest qualification support the aspiration of students to get a really high musical education, whatever kind of musical activity they choose: performing solo, conductor, ensemble, orchestral.

The faculty of continuing education and additional education helps young specialists in their future activities. In addition to traditional programs, they train music lecturers, critics, journalists for the media, editors of radio and TV. Young specialists are also supported by a special department that facilitates the employment of graduates of NNGK, which organizes a fair of specialists for employers and job seekers. In addition, during the training all students are engaged in educational activities, which certainly helps them to gain experience: performing, lecturing and concert. Also, NNCK students constantly take part in professional competitions of different levels, up to the highest level.

The science

Without serious scientific research, which is carried out in the university, the authority of NNGK would not have such a height. Own musicology school, unique and highly professional, based on an interdisciplinary approach to science, is characterized by constant interest in the problems of modern music. The Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory, whose concert halls address everything from small to large in the city and the region, in addition to educational activities, works a lot for professional colleagues.

Nizhny Novgorod musicologists prepare textbooks for music universities and successfully publish them along with illustrative material, as it allows their own publishing house and recording studio. Monographs, collections of articles, which are written by teachers of performing departments, are also published, conference materials, and many methodical and teaching aids are also published. In the Russian culture, every event held by NNGK becomes a notable phenomenon: scientific and artistic projects, concert cycles, scientific conferences, publications and art exhibitions.

International activity

The international authority of the conservatory is constantly and steadily growing, as the activities in this direction are wide-ranging and multifaceted. Regular creative contacts of NNCK with universities of Austria, Germany, China and other countries. Agreements on cooperation have been signed with many. There are constant exchanges of visits, creative meetings. Together with Russians, students, trainees and graduate students from Mongolia, Korea, China, Serbia, Belgium, Austria, France study.

Joint festivals are held in accordance with the agreements: Folkwang-Hochschule (Germany) has been cooperating with NNC since 1996, exchanging joint master classes and cycles of concerts of students, post-graduate students and teachers in the framework of this cooperation; Since 1998, under the contract, he has been making joint musical performances with the NNCK Bruckner Conservatory (Austria); In Essen, a festival was held, prepared by the teachers of NNGK - "Music of the passing century", as well as many other international scientific and artistic projects. NNGK hosts guests from the Paris Higher School of Music, the Grand Opera and the Metropolitan Opera (USA).

In Russia

In NNSK among the teaching staff a huge percentage of concert musicians. Even entering the international level, they retain traditional ties with colleagues from music colleges, colleges, schools of the country where Nizhny Novgorod musicians conduct master classes, competitions, seminars, open lessons, olympiads and, of course, concerts.

That is why the contest for entrants is consistently high, and the geography of applicants covers almost the whole of our vast country. As already mentioned, after graduation, graduates without help do not remain. Education in NNGK was originally included in the urban cultural environment: students also concerts in the walls of the conservatory itself, in two excellent halls, and strengthen the authority of the Nizhny Novgorod performing school, and successfully and successfully touring.

Level of training

More than seven thousand graduates of NNGK work in all major cities of Russia, the USA, Great Britain, Australia, Japan, Israel, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, representing the Nizhny Novgorod school of music. They also make up the musical elite of the city: the pedagogical and creative foundation of the conservatory, the philharmonic society, the music college, the opera house, the choir college, schools and lyceums.

The quality of the training of specialists is confirmed by the numerous victories of students and graduate students in various professional competitions. The most prestigious ones are even difficult to list because the list is long:

• All-Russia competition (Moscow, more than once).
• International Pianists Competition (Germany).
• "In the homeland of Tchaikovsky" (Izhevsk).
• Competition Nesterova (Nizhny Novgorod, wind and percussion instruments).
• "Silver sounds" (Petrozavodsk).
• "Pearl of the Kuban" (Krasnodar).
• Competition Vila-Lobos (Spain, classical guitar).
• "Prikamye-2010" (Perm, folk instruments).
• "Russian Olympus" (Nizhny Novgorod, more than once).
• Perpetuum mobile (Ukraine, accordion, accordion).
• International competition "Volga blizzard" (Samara, opera singing).
• International competition "Orpheus" (Volgograd, vocals).
• International Competition named after Jurgenson (composition).
• All-Russian competition (Bashkiria, choral conducting).
• All-Russian choral competition "Russian music of the 19th century".
• All-Russian competition of students' scientific works (Gnesin's RAM).
• All-Russian competition named after Babushkin (Moscow, creative work of sound engineers).

Honored privileges

NNGK is a permanent initiator and an excellent organizer of professional competitions in all specialties in the field of music among the younger generation. Especially it is necessary to note traditionally the strongest contests on the history and theory of music.

In 2012, the NNGK Olympiad was included in the list of leading Olympiads, which are held at the Union of Rectors of the Ministry of Education of Russia. The status of such events allows winners and prize-winners to bypass admission exams upon admission to the conservatory.

Faculties

Piano performance has always been the main and leading specialty since the foundation of the university. There are five departments at the piano faculty: two special pianos, a chamber ensemble, accompanist mastery, and a harpsichord and organ section.

The orchestra department also exists since the first day of the opening of the conservatory. There are three chairs: strings, woodwinds, as well as brass and percussion instruments.

At the Faculty of Folk Instruments there is only one department, this structure is owned by the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory. Glinka. The bayan faculty is not separately present in it, but the specialization itself, naturally, is within the boundaries of this department. At the vocal department there are two departments - solo singing and the department of musical theater. The conductor's faculty at two departments teaches choral conducting and opera-symphony. The composer and musicology department has six departments. Among them - compositions and instrumentation; Theory of music; History of music; Sound design; Musical journalism; Musical pedagogy. In addition, the NNGK has a faculty for advanced training and five university colleges.

Addresses

Documents applicants submit to the address: street Piskunova, the house 40. It is preliminary possible to make inquiries by phone 8-831-411-88-78. The admission committee is working from June 20 in the classroom 105 on the first floor from 9.00 to 17.00, with a lunch break from 12.00 to 13.00. The hostel is located at Genkina Street, house 71. Phone: 8-831-432-25-72.