Novosibirsk Conservatory: brief information, concerts, student groups, competitions

The Novosibirsk Glinka Conservatory is one of the best higher musical educational institutions of our country. It was open seventy years ago. Future vocalists, conductors, musicians, composers, musicologists are trained here.

About the Conservatory

The Novosibirsk State Conservatory named after Glinka opened its doors to students in 1956. She became the first music college in Siberia. The name of Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka has been in the conservatory since 1957.

The building in which it is located, almost a hundred years. It was built for Daltorg. The architect who created the project of this building, - Andrey Kryachkov. Since 1981 the museum has been opened here at the conservatory. Among the exhibits - documents, posters, audio recordings, photographs.

The Novosibirsk Conservatory offers training in the following areas:

• Conducting.
• Pianoforte.
• Orchestra.
• Folk instruments.
• The theory of music.
• Composition.
• Solo singing.
• Stringed instruments.
• History of music.
• Wind and percussion instruments.
• Musical Theatre.
• Ethnomusicology.

The educational building of the Conservatory is located at Sovetskaya Street, # 31.

There are several levels of education: specialty, bachelor's, master's, postgraduate (full-time and correspondence forms), assistant-internship, secondary vocational education.

Student groups

The Novosibirsk State Conservatory created several permanent student groups. This allows students to apply the acquired knowledge and skills in practice.

Collectives of the Conservatory:

• Symphony Orchestra.
• Opera studio.
• Chamber Orchestra.
• Academic Choir.
• Orchestra of Russian folk instruments.
• Ensemble "Laboratory of New Music".

Concerts

The Novosibirsk Conservatory from September to July, while the school year lasts, offers residents and guests of the city to attend their concerts. Most of the programs include free admission. Mostly they are students who are trained here. But also often in the programs of the conservatory take part teachers, graduates and laureates of various competitions.

Concerts and performances of the Conservatory:

• "German classics in Russia."
• "Acting samples."
• "Beautiful Galatea" (performance of the department of musical theater).
• "A man is that, in the second he believes."
• "Alkina's song" (opera).
• The parade of vocalists and Choirs.
• "Under the sails of spring."
• "The famous organs of Europe."
• "Mozart - 260 years from the date of birth".
• "Music stories."
• "Portraits of Composers".
• Concert of choral music.
• "Christmas tale".
• New Year's parade of soloists.
• "Guitarists of Siberia."
• "Mysteries of Composers".
• "Once in the Wonderland".
• Violin nights.
• Concert of teachers of the Conservatory.

Competitions

The Novosibirsk Conservatory is the organizer of a large number of competitions and festivals of the city, regional, regional, all-Russian and international levels.

The most important of them is called "Siberian Seasons". This is the International Festival among the performers of modern music. It is held annually. In addition to concert and competitive programs, creative laboratories and master classes are held within the framework of the festival. The guests of the "Siberian Seasons" are the most famous contemporary musicians, conductors, dance groups, vocalists, artists and so on. In different years such outstanding personalities and collectives have visited here: GAM-Ensemble, Manuel Navri, Ocoem, duet Elettro Voce, Oleg Payerdin, Dirk Rotbroost, Thyme Ringewaldt, Orchestra of National Music from China, Harmonia caelestis, Vladimir Martynov and many others. Others. The motto of the festival is consonant with the credo of the famous "Russian Seasons" by Sergei Diaghilev - this is the phrase "Surprise me."

The Novosibirsk Conservatory, in addition to the "Siberian Seasons", conducts the following competitions:

• Review of piano concertos.
• Competition named after L.B. Miasnikova among the vocalists.
• Festival of chamber ensembles.
• Competition for conducting.
• Olympiad in musical historical and theoretical disciplines.
• Competition of young performers on percussion and wind instruments.
• Festival of scientific research works.
• Competition of young violinists.

Concert hall

The Novosibirsk Conservatory has two concert halls - Small and Large. In the first there are chamber programs, in the second - large. The Great Hall is considered one of the best scenic venues in the city. Its capacity is 470 seats. There is an organ in the hall, as well as three concert grand pianos.

The opening of this stage took place in 1968. In honor of this event a concert was held, at which students and teachers of the conservatory acted.

In the Great Hall there are various concerts, performances, actions, meetings, examinations, rehearsals. It is here that guests of the city come on tour. Over the course of the school year, more than a hundred concerts take place in the Great Hall.