Rostov State Conservatory (RGK) them. Rachmaninov: admission, departments, specialties

The largest center of music education, which brought up thousands of true professionals of performing arts, is RGK im. Rachmaninov. It was from here that the activities of Russian music science were directed to the south of Russia and the North Caucasus. The Rostov State Conservatory named after SV Rakhmaninov was created in 1967, at first it was the Rostov Musical Pedagogical Institute. In 1992, the current status was obtained.

Structure

In the RGK im. Rachmaninov has six faculties, seventeen departments, where future high-professional musicians are trained. They are engaged in all educational programs that exist in Russia and belong to the field of music.

RGK them. Rachmaninov conducts training for foreign and Russian graduate students, trainees, trainees, as well as gifted children on existing programs from general secondary and secondary education in a special music school-eleven years (college) to graduate school, inclusive. There is also a special center where professionals improve their qualifications.

Steady growth

Rostov State Conservatory named after S. V. Rakhmaninov is dynamically developing and occupies one of the leading places among musical universities of the country. The indicators under state accreditations are constantly growing, the results of achievements of both teachers and their pupils at all-Russian and international competitions also increase, the teaching staff of the team, students and graduate students amaze with their creative achievements.

The quality indicator of the teaching staff is one of the best in the country, 89.8% of the staff members are associate professors and professors, candidates and doctors of sciences, honored and popular artists of Russia and artists.

Twenty years

Over the past two decades, the structure of the RGK them. Rachmaninov has qualitatively changed and grown. In 1993, SSMSh-college and post-graduate school were opened, in 1995 the dissertation council was organized. At the same time the Conservatory was enriched by the South-Russian Center for Professional Retraining and Advanced Training of Musicians.

The musical education received within the walls of this educational institution is rightfully considered one of the best in the country. Numerous victories at musical competitions of all levels can serve as proof of this.

Pioneers

The first in the Soviet Union and Russia, the Rostov Conservatory included in its work such musical directions as jazz and the Russian stage, opening the pulp and pop department of jazz.

The conservatory annually hosts a variety of all-Russian and international scientific conferences and music festivals. With impatience the public expects "Rachmaninov Days in Rostov", "Music Culture of the Christian World" and many other events. The Russian stage is constantly replenished by graduates of the Rostov Conservatory. In many collectives of Russia and other countries, guitarists and drummers, vocalists and violinists have found their place.

Opera

Here they love opera. Annually, the Conservatory performs in such theaters as "Eugene Onegin" and "Iolanta" by Tchaikovsky, "Monna Vanna" and "Aleko" Rachmaninov, "The Wedding of Figaro" and "So All the Women Do" by Mozart, Rigoletto Verdi, Carmen Bizet, Rafael Arensky, Tsar's Bride Rimsky-Korsakov, Madame Butterfly and La Boheme Puccini, Strauss and Ariadne on Naxos Strauss, Mermaid Dargomyzhsky, Prokofiev and many others.

"Rostov premieres"

Once in two years there is an international festival "Rostov premieres", where modern music sounds. Composers Andrei Eshpai, Krzysztof Penderecki, Gia Kancheli, Alexander Tchaikovsky, John Corillano, François Paris, Rodion Shchedrin, Eduard Artemyev, as well as many young composers from Armenia, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belarus, Ukraine and other countries attended the meetings.

New specialties

Of course, initially there is a superb piano class in the conservatory. His pupils have long been given to conquer the whole world. Of course, from the very beginning there were also such specialties as the conductor of the choir and the conductor of the orchestra. Without these specialties, no music educational institution can even be openly.

But in the last few years the Conservatory has been training specialists who are not from every music school. These specialties are "musical sound engineering", "pop-jazz singing", "organization management", "folk singing", and this musical education is at the highest professional level.

Publishing house

Since 1994, there are published over twenty titles of books, collections, monographs, scientific works. The themes are the history of performing, the theory of musical art, the method of teaching, musical editions, textbooks on all musical disciplines. Not everyone, even a Moscow university, can go out on such a volume of published teaching, methodological and scientific works.

How to proceed

For admission, it is necessary to withstand introductory tests, which include the execution of the program and the colloquium. Examinations on a hundred-point system are evaluated, passing score for each test is considered sixty. The program can be discussed and finalized on introductory hearings or on preparatory courses, which also function in the RGK them. Rachmaninoff. Entrance examinations at each branch are taken by an authoritative commission.

In the Admission Committee you can submit documents in June, the numbers in each year are different, you can specify by phone. In the RGK im. Rachmaninov's selection committee works on weekdays from 11.00 to 16.00 in offices 205 and 102. For those wishing to receive paid preparation for the entrance tests, detailed information is given on the conservatory website. In short, it can be said that training is only full-time, the duration to choose is one or two years. Here you can prepare for such specialties as academic, variety-jazz and solo folk singing, musical sound engineering, instruments of variety orchestra.

The international cooperation

The Conservatory signed many agreements on cooperation, the terms of which are being fulfilled in full. This is the Scottish Royal Academy of Drama and Music, and the Yerevan Conservatory, and the Belarusian Academy of Music, and the conservatory of the city of Trento (Italy). A unique and one of the most significant projects, working since 2007, is the "European Youth Opera", funds for the implementation of which have been received from the European Union in the form of a grant.

In this decade, long-term internships of students and teachers of the Rostov Conservatory in foreign universities and theaters were carried out, as a result of which many performances were staged. On the opera stages of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Rostov-on-Don, the two countries worked together in Prokofiev's productions "Love for the Three Oranges", Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" and some others. In Glasgow and Edinburgh, the world premiere of a new version of the opera Prokofiev's War and Peace, which aroused wide resonance in the British media, as well as detailed comments on US and European TV.

Twenty first century

Educational, creative, scientific-methodical, concert-performing and composer activities continue to develop in the conservatory. Graduates 100% find a job in their specialty, and very often abroad. Successes of the conservatory pupils at the All-Russian and international competitions can be called breakthroughs. It is better than in other conservatories, here scientific activities are funded.

Congratulations of the laureates have become customary, they are literally many hundreds. The performing departments of the Conservatory enjoy international recognition in Japan, USA, South America, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Bulgaria and other countries, receiving diplomas and prizes of the world's most outstanding competitions. In Rostov musicians are good all: instrumentalists, vocalists, conductors, composers enjoy indisputable authority in international musical circles.

Pianists

Pupils of the piano school of Rostov in exceptional competition with the strongest representatives of Russian and foreign academies and conservatories have won such prestigious piano competitions as the name of Busoni in Italy, competitions in Cincinnati, Takamatsu, Monterrey, Rome, Kant, Seryonio, Varallo, Madrid, Andorra, Competition for Queen Elizabeth in Belgium and Schnabel in Germany. From Atlanta was brought the grand prize - the grand piano "Steinway" ... All the winning competitions can not even be listed in one article is impossible. Professor of Rostov pianists - students Vlasenko, Oborin, Neuhaus, Sofronitsky, Gornostaeva and many other lights of the piano school of Russia, as we know, the strongest and the brightest in the world.

The leading professor at the department of special piano SI Osipenko brought up dozens of laureates of the largest world contests. Professors RG Skorokhodova, VSDeich, VV Orlovsky, EN Surin, EN Chaplin, NN Simonova, OB Barsov and others help to support the piano department at the very High world level of professionalism. It should be noted that vocalists, as well as all-Russian and international, are equally good in the Rostov Conservatory. The premiums are not much lower, and they are all not less prestigious. Including the first prize at the competitions named Pavarotti, Galina Vishnevskaya and others. The performing school is high both for the band-musicians and for the jazz artists.