Moscow Conservatory

History

Choral faculty

Great Hall

Some notable graduates

• Valery Afanassiev – pianist
• Nelly Akopian-Tamarina – pianist
• Ashot Ariyan – composer and pianist
• Eduard Artemyev – composer
• Vladimir Ashkenazy – pianist, conductor
• Vladimir Bakaleinikov – violist, composer, conductor
• Stanisław Barcewicz – violinist
• Rudolf Barshai – violist, conductor
• Dmitri Bashkirov – pianist
• Yuri Bashmet – violist, conductor
• Boris Berezovsky – pianist
• Boris Berman – pianist
• Lazar Berman – pianist
• Vadim Borisovsky – violist
• Anatoliy Brandukov – cellist
• Alexander Chuhaldin – violinist, conductor, composer
• Tish Daija – Albanian composer
• Đặng Thái Sơn – pianist
• Bella Davidovich – pianist
• Nikolai Demidenko – pianist
• Edison Denisov – composer
• Vladimir Denissenkov – accordionist
• Fyodor Druzhinin – violist
• Youri Egorov – pianist
• Samuil Feinberg – pianist, composer
• Frank Fernandez – pianist, composer
• Yakov Flier – pianist
• Andrei Gavrilov – pianist
• Misha Geller – composer, violist
• Emil Gilels – pianist
• Marina Goglidze-Mdivani – pianist
• Alexei Gorokhov – violinist, musicologist
• Vera Gornostayeva – pianist
• Sofia Gubaidulina – composer
• Maria Grinberg – pianist
• Natalia Gutman – cellist
• Rustem Hayroudinoff – pianist
• Andrej Hoteev – pianist
• Waleed Howrani – composer, pianist
• Rinat Ibragimov – double bassist, conductor
• Valentina Igoshina – pianist
• Konstantin Igumnov – pianist
• Ilya Itin – pianist
• Dmitry Kabalevsky – composer, pianist
• Olga Kern – pianist
• Aram Khachaturian – composer
• Yuri Kholopov – musicologist
• Tikhon Khrennikov – composer
• Igor Khudolei – pianist
• :pt:Olga Kiun|Olga Kiun – pianist
• Leonid Kogan – violinist
• Pavel Kogan – violinist, conductor
• Evgeni Koroliov – pianist
• Ivan Kotov – bassist
• Vladimir Krainev – pianist
• Gidon Kremer – violinist
• Eduard Kunz – pianist
• Elisabeth Leonskaja – pianist
• Josef Lhévinne – pianist
• Rosina Lhévinne – pianist
• Dong-Hyek Lim – pianist
• Alexei Lubimov – pianist
• Nikolai Lugansky – pianist
• Radu Lupu – pianist
• Dmitry Malikov – pianist, composer, singer
• Anna Malikova – pianist
• Yevgeny Malinin – pianist,
• Emanuil Manolov – pianist, flutist, conductor, composer
• Fuat Mansurov – conductor
• Denis Matsuev – pianist
• Nikolai Medtner – composer, pianist
• Victor Merzhanov – pianist
• Alexander Mogilevsky – violinist
• Roman Moiseyev – conductor
• Alexander Mosolov – pianist, composer
• Avni Mula – Albanian singer, composer
• Shoista Mullodzhanova – Shashmaqam singer
• Viktoria Mullova – violinist
• Sergey Musaelyan – pianist
• Lisa Nakazono-Węgłowska – pianist
• Alexandre Naoumenko – singer
• Anahit Nersesyan – pianist
• Heinrich Neuhaus – pianist
• Stanislav Neuhaus – pianist
• Tatiana Nikolayeva – pianist
• Dmitri Novgorodsky – pianist
• Lev Oborin – pianist
• David Oistrakh – violinist
• Alexander Osminin − pianist
• Aleksandra Pakhmutova – composer
• Dmitry Paperno – pianist
• Georgs Pelēcis – Latvian composer and musicologist
• Nikolai Petrov – pianist
• Gregor Piatigorsky – cellist
• Mikhail Pletnev – pianist, composer, conductor
• Ivo Pogorelić – pianist
• Viktoria Postnikova – pianist
• Mikhail Press – violinist
• Sergei Rachmaninoff – pianist, composer
• Sviatoslav Richter – pianist
• Mstislav Rostropovich – cellist and conductor
• Gennady Rozhdestvensky – conductor
• Aram Satian – composer
• Alexander Scriabin – composer and pianist
• Rodion Shchedrin – composer and pianist
• Alfred Schnittke – composer
• Valery Sigalevitch – pianist
• Tamriko Siprashvili – pianist
• Pyotr Slovtsov – tenor
• Viviana Sofronitsky – pianist
• Aleksandr Sokolov – Russian Minister of Culture
• Alexei Soutchkov – pianist
• Vladimir Spivakov – violinist, conductor
• Pavel Berman – violinist, conductor
• Steven Spooner – pianist
• Mykola Suk – pianist
• Yevgeny Svetlanov – conductor, pianist, composer
• Ivan Tasovac – pianist
• Marina Tchebourkina – organist, musicologist
• Viktor Tretiakov – violinist
• Anna Tsybuleva – pianist
• Ibrahim Tukiqi – Albanian singer
• Mauricio Vallina – pianist
• Saša Večtomov – cellist
• Alexander Veprik – composer
• Anastasia Vedyakova - violinist and composer
• Eliso Virsaladze – pianist
• Mikhail Voskresensky – pianist
• Jacob Weinberg – pianist and composer
• Çesk Zadeja – Albanian composer
• Marina Yakhlakova – pianist
• Irina Zaritskaya – pianist
• Igor Zubkovsky – cellist
• Senya Son – pianist, composer
• Serguei Kostiuchenko – Belarusian conductor
• Larisa Sobol - Pianist

  Notable current professors

• Yuri Bashmet – viola
• Andrei Diev – piano
• Andrei Eshpai – composition
• Vera Gornostayeva – piano
• Natalia Gutman – cello
• Alexei Lubimov – piano
• Kirill Rodin – cello
• Gennady Rozhdestvensky – conducting
• Natalia Shakhovskaya – cello
• Yuri Slesarev – piano
• Eliso Virsaladze – piano
• Mikhail Voskresensky – piano
• Irina Zhurina – voice