Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Academic Board

Chairman of the Academic Board, Acting Rector:

Honored Art Worker of Russia

Professor

Alexander Sokolov

Summary
Members

Academic board is a delegation part of the Moscow conservatory’s collective direction. It consists of 84 members and includes the full Administration, deans of departments and heads of chairs, representatives of all departments and inter-department chairs, directors of the Moscow conservatory’s Central School of Music and College of Music — with a large number of widely known musicians and figures of the Russian musical culture and science.

Collegial direction is one of the traditions of the Moscow conservatory. At the very moment of its foundation the Professor’s board was established which later turned into the Artistic board. Since that times the main functions of the Board almost did not change — it accepts all decisions regarding the artistic, teaching and economy life of the Conservatory.

The Board also tutors the Conservatory’s buildings reconstruction process, improving of its structure, concert and repertoire strategy in the Conservatory’s halls, takes part in the arrangements for the Tchaikovsky International Competition etc. It also follows a tradition to award the Honoured Professorship of the Conservatory: Alfred Schnittke, Mikhail Pletnev, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Rodion Shchedrin, Andrey Eshpay and Krzysztof Penderecki were awarded this professorship.

Alexander Sokolov

D.A., Honored Art Worker of Russia
Professor
Chairman of the Academic Board, Acting Rector

Nikolai Tarasevich

D.A., Honored Culture Worker of Russia
Professor
Vice-Rector for the Teaching and Guiding Activities

Konstantin Zenkin

D.A.
Professor
Vice-Rector for the Research and Morale Building Activities

Vitaly Katkov

Honored Culture Worker of Russia
Vice-Rector for the Concert Activities

Oleg Liang

Ph.D. in Engineering, Merited Builder of Russia
Vice-Rector for the Estates and Buildings

Mikhail Dubov

Ph.D. in Art Studies
Professor
Acting Dean of the Faculty of Historical and Contemporary Performance

Vladimir Ivanov

People’s Artist of Russia
Professor
Acting Dean of the Orchestra Faculty, Acting Head of Prof. Vladimir Ivanov’s Department of Solo Concert Violin Performance, Acting Head of the Solo Harp Performance Class

Olga Loseva

D.A.
Professor
Dean of the Advanced Training Faculty

Andrei Pisarev

Honored Artist of Russia
Professor
Acting Dean of the Faculty of Solo Concert Piano Performance

Alexei Rudnevsky

Professor
Acting Dean of the Faculty of Symphony and Choral Conducting

Pyotr Skusnichenko

People’s Artist of Russia
Professor
Acting Dean of the Faculty of Vocal Studies, Acting Head of the Departments of Solo Singing and of Opera Performance

Irina Skvortsova

D.A.
Professor
Acting Dean of the Faculty of Musicology and Composition, Acting Head of the Department of Russian Music History

Alexander Solovyev

Professor
Dean of the Office for Foreign Students’ Affairs

Vladislav Agafonnikov

People’s Artist of Russia, Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR
Professor

Yuri Bashmet

People’s Artist of the USSR
Professor
Acting Head of the Department of Solo Concert Viola Performance

Alexander Bonduryansky

Ph.D. in Art Studies, People’s Artist of Russia
Professor

Maria Chaykovskaya

People’s Artist of Russia, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Professor
Acting Head of the Cello and Double-bass Division

Alexander Chaykovsky

People’s Artist of Russia, Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR
Professor
Acting Head of the Composition Department

Vladimir Chinayev

D.A.
Professor
Acting Head of the Department of the Performance Art History and Theory

Elena Chvertok

Professor

Igor Dronov

Honored Artist of Russia
Professor

Maxim Filippov

Professor

Eduard Grach

People’s Artist of the USSR
Professor
Acting Head of Prof. Grach’s Department of Solo Concert Violin Performance

Dmitry Gutnov

Doctor of Historical Studies
Professor

Marina Karaseva

D.A., Honored Art Worker of Russia
Professor
Professor of the Music Theory Department

Yevgeniya Karpinskaya

Honored Artist of Russia
Professor
Acting Head of the Inter-faculty Department of Piano Performance

Valentina Kholopova

D.A., Honored Art Worker of Russia, Awardee of Russia’s Government
Professor
Acting Head of the Department of Interdisciplinary Musicological Studies