Gnessin State Musical College

The Gnessins Institute in Moscow ( full name: Russian sibling Gnessins Music Academy Moscow, Russian Российская академия музыки имени Гнесиных ) is a famous Russian musical training school in Moscow, Russia. It was founded on February 15, 1895 by Jelena Gnessina and her two sisters, Eugenia and Mary, who had graduated from the Moscow Conservatory with great success. Since then the school is considered elite Academy of Music.

Graduates

• Roberto Cani, violin
• Yevgeny Kissin, Pianist
• Evgenia Fölsche, pianist
• Boris Elkis, composer
• Alexei Kruglov, Jazz Musicians
• Alina Ibragimowa, violinist
• Sasha Ivanov, Film Composer
• Yuri Katz, music producer
• Yakov Okun, Jazz Pianist
• Oleg Kroll, jazz pianist
• Alexander Brill, jazz saxophonist
• Dimitri Brill, jazz saxophonist
• Elvira Khokhlova, soprano
• Yakov Kasjanski, composer and jazz pianist
• Lev Knipper, composer and NKVD agent
• Alexander Kobrin, piano
• Maisenberg, Pianist
• Quiynh Nguyen, Pianist
• Boris Parsadanian, composer
• Alla Pavlova, composer
• Vissarion Schebalin, composer
• Anatoli Scheludjakow, Pianist
• Arkadi Fimowitsch Schilkloper, Alphorns
• Vladislav Shoot, composer
• Viktor Suslin, composer
• Nikolai Alexandrovich Tokarev ( Pianist ) Pianist
• Valentina Tolkunowa, singer
• Alexei Volodin, piano
• Tatiana Zelikman, pianist and teacher at the Gnessin Institute
• Yevgeny Isotow, oboist
• Filipp Kirkorov, pop composer and singer
• Dima Bilan pop singer
• Boris Kuznetsov, pianist
• Vladimir Tropp, Pianist
• Mikhail Mordvinov, Pianist
• Konstantin Liftschitz, Pianist
• Anna Zassimowa, pianist

Teacher

• Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer
• Mikhail spruce, Russian violinist
• Alexander Frauchi, Russian guitarist
• Anna Kantor, Russian pianist
• Vladimir Tropp, Russian pianist
• Yuri Alexandrovich Rosum, Russian pianist
• Alexander Kobrin, Russian pianist
• Alexander Rosenblatt, Russian pianist and composer
• Tatiana Zelikman, Russian pianist
• Zara Dolukhanova, Armenian singer (mezzo- soprano)