Ul Povarskaya 30-36, 121069 Moscow, Russia

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Undergraduate program

Bachelor of Arts. Four years. Studies include performance (classical, jazz/pop, folk, opera), choral and orchestral conducting, composition, theory, orchestration, computer music, musicology, ethnomusicology, arts management, sound engineering, music pedagogy, music journalism, music education (for teaching in schools).

Graduate program

Master of Arts. In performance, conducting, opera, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, music pedagogy, music and media, music management. Doctor of Philosophy.

Other program

Specialist programs. Five years. In performance, composition, musicology, sound engineering.

This institution was founded in 1895 as a junior school and was called the Gnessin State Musical College. It added higher levels in 1944, and eventually became a full tertiary institution, now known as the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. In addition to a full conservatory program with an original emphasis on pedagogy, there is a large department of folk and national music, one of the first in Russia. Some distance-mode tuition in appropriate subjects is available for mature-age amateur performers wishing to gain a formal qualification, provided they have the performing ability to obtain entrance. Part-time students are accepted. There is a folk music laboratory and a collection of folk music materials from all over Russia as well as a museum of the house and furnishings of the founder, Elena Gnessina. Two music schools, elementary and secondary, are attached. Facilities include two pipe organs, one of cathedral-size. The Academy organises an annual Gnessin music summer school. An active member of the Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen.

May 2022