Moscow Conservatory

The International School of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory offers an intensive program of individual lessons, lectures, master classes and performances in the following majors:

• solo performance, including piano, organ and all orchestral instruments;
• solo singing;
• choral conducting;
• chamber ensemble;
• the art of accompaniment;
• composition;
• lessons on musicology and music theory;
• the teaching of vocal performance, as well as of playing piano, organ and all orchestral instruments.

In addition to individual lessons, the International School participants may attend master classes taught by Russia’s leading teachers and participate in a concert performance scheduled for 6 February 2018 at the Nikolay Myaskovsky Concert Hall. Lectures and seminars are going to help the International School participants learn the methodology of teaching musical subjects in a detailed way at various levels of Russia’s music education system. The music theory major includes individual lessons and lectures on the history and theory of Russian and European classical and folk music, as well as on anthropology of music culture and on ethnomusicology.

Over fifty leading teachers of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory who attained a worldwide renown for their artistic and academic merits have been teaching at its International School on a biannual basis. Upon completion of the International School Program, every participant shall get his/her certificate issued by the Moscow Conservatory. The following services may be offered to the International School participants at extra charge:

• Russian language lessons;
• an interpreter for an individual cultural program;
• an accompanist for rehearsals and for the concert performance at the Myaskovsky Concert Hall on 6 February 2018;
• chamber ensemble lessons with other participants of the International School or with the Moscow Conservatory students available during the International School;
• lessons of accompaniment with participation of professional solo singers;
• any other additional lessons with the conservatory teachers.

The International School is held in the conservatory’s historical buildings in the very heart of Moscow, one of the largest cities worldwide. The participants will be offered a sightseeing guided tour over Moscow and vicinities with an escort interpreter. Additional tours, such as visits to the Moscow Kremlin, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Bolshoi Theater, as well as to Tchaikovsky’s, Skryabin’s, Richter’s and other famous Russian musicians’ memorial flats, may be organized at extra charge.