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The Gnessin State Musical College or, literally translated, Russian Academy of Music named after the Gnessins (Российская академия музыки имени Гнесиных) is a prominent conservatoire in Moscow, Russia.
Established February 15, 1895 by the sisters Eugenia, Helena and Maria Gnessin who had graduated as pianists from Moscow Conservatory with brilliant success. The college has been considered an elite music school ever since.
[edit] Alumni
- Roberto Cani, Italian violinist
- Boris Elkis, Russian composer
- Sasha Ivanov, Russian film composer
- Yuri Katz, Israeli jazz musician
- Yakov Kazyansky, Russian composer and jazz pianist
- Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
- Lev Knipper, Russian composer and NKVD agent
- Alexander Kobrin, Russian pianist
- Oleg Maisenberg, Ukrainian pianist
- Quynh Nguyen, Vietnamese pianist
- Boris Parsadanian, Armenian-Estonian composer
- Alla Pavlova, American composer
- Vissarion Shebalin, Russian composer
- Anatoly Sheludyakov, Russian pianist
- Vladislav Shoot, Russian composer
- Viktor Suslin, Russian composer
- Aleksey Volodin, Russian pianist
- Eugene Izotov, Russian oboist
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