Kazan Conservatory

Kazan State Conservatory

Казанская государственная консерватория имени Н.Г. Жиганова

Type| Music academy
Established| 1945
Students| 700
Location|

Kazan

Russia

55°47′49″N 49°07′39″E﻿ / ﻿55.79694°N 49.12750°E﻿ / 55.79694; 49.12750
Campus| Urban

The  N.G. Zhiganov Kazan State Conservatory (Russian: Казанская государственная консерватория имени Н.Г. Жиганова) is a higher musical education institution in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. The conservatory was founded in 1945 by Soviet Tatar composer Najip Jihanov who was a rector of the institution during 1945-1988. In 2000 the Conservatory was named after him.

In 2009, the Conservatory had around 110 faculty members and 700 students. The educational programmes are realised at seven departments - piano, orchestra, choir conducting, vocal, folk instruments, theory and composition, Tatar musical art. Since 1989, the rector of the institution is professor Rubin Abdullin [tt], the first organist of Tatar ethnicity. Since 2021, the rector of the institution is professor Vadim Dulat-Aleev [tt].

## Notable faculty

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* Najip Jihanov
* Albert Leman
* Fuat Mansurov
* Mansur Mozaffarov
* Natan Rakhlin
* Elf Burnasheva [ru]

## Notable alumni

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* Vlada Borovko \- operatic soprano
* Larissa Diadkova \- mezzo-soprano (transferred to Saint Petersburg Conservatory)
* Youri Egorov \- pianist (transferred to Moscow Conservatory)
* Sofia Gubaidulina \- composer (1954)
* Oleg Lundstrem \- jazz composer and conductor (1953)
* Almaz Monasypov \- composer, conductor, and cellist.
* Airat Ichmouratov \- composer, conductor, and clarinetist.
* Mikhail Pletnev \- pianist, conductor, and composer (transferred to Moscow Conservatory)

## External links

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* Kazan Conservatory website Archived 2019-12-11 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
* Kazan Conservatory website Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (in English)

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* United States

Geographic|

* MusicBrainz place

Artists|

* MusicBrainz