The largest center for music education that has trained thousands of real professionals in the performing arts is RGK im. Rachmaninov. It was from here that the activity of domestic musical science was directed to the south of Russia and the North Caucasus. The Rostov State Conservatory named after S.V. Rachmaninov was created in 1967, at first it was the Rostov Music and Pedagogical Institute. In 1992, today's status was obtained.
Structure
In the RGK them. Rakhmaninov has six faculties, seventeen departments, where future highly professional musicians are trained. They are engaged in all educational programs that exist in Russia and relate to the field of music.
RGK them. Rachmaninova conducts training of foreign and Russian graduate students, students, trainees, students, as well as gifted children in existing programs from general additional and secondary education in a special music school, eleven years old (college) to postgraduate study inclusive. There is also a special center where professionals improve their qualifications.
Steady growth
The Rostov State Conservatory named after S.V. Rakhmaninov is developing dynamically and occupies one of the leading places among the country's musical universities. Indicators under state accreditations are constantly growing, the results of the achievements of both teachers and their students at national and international competitions are also increasing, the faculty, students and graduate students amaze with their creative achievements.
The quality indicator of the teaching staff is one of the best in the country, 89.8% of the staff are associate professors and professors, candidates and doctors of sciences, honored and people's artists of the Russian Federation and artists.
Twenty years
Over the past two decades, the structure of the RGK them. Rachmaninova has qualitatively changed and grown. In 1993, the secondary school and postgraduate studies were opened, in 1995 the dissertation council was organized. At the same time, the conservatory was enriched by the South Russian Center for Professional Retraining and Further Training of Musicians.
The musical education received within the walls of this educational institution is rightfully considered one of the best in the country. This is confirmed by numerous victories at music competitions at all levels.
Pioneers
The first in the Soviet Union and Russia, the Rostov Conservatory included in its work such musical directions as jazz and Russian pop, opening the department of pop-jazz music.
The Conservatory annually hosts a variety of All-Russian and international scientific conferences and music festivals. With impatience the audience expects “Rachmaninov’s days in Rostov”, “The musical culture of the Christian world” and many other events. The Russian stage is constantly replenished by graduates of the Rostov Conservatory. In many groups of Russia and other countries, guitarists and percussionists, vocalists and violinists found their place.
Opera
They love opera here. Every year, the conservatory performs in the theaters of Rostov performances (complete, without cuts) of performances such as “Eugene Onegin” and “Iolanthe” by Tchaikovsky, “Monna Vann” and “Aleko” Rachmaninov, “The Wedding of Figaro” and “All Women Do It” by Mozart, Rigoletto Verdi, Carmen Bizet, Rafael Arensky, Tsar’s bride Rimsky-Korsakov, Madame Butterfly and Bohemia Puccini, Fedra and Ariadne on Naxos Strauss, Mermaid Dargomyzhsky, War and Peace "by Prokofiev and many others.
"Rostov premieres"
Once every two years, the international festival "Rostov Premieres" is held, where modern music sounds. Such meetings were attended by composers Andrei Eshpay, Krzysztof Penderetsky, Gia Kancheli, Alexander Tchaikovsky, John Corigliano, Francois Paris, Rodion Shchedrin, Eduard Artemyev, as well as many young composers from Armenia, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belarus, Ukraine and other countries.
New specialties
Of course, the superb piano class was originally present at the conservatory. His pupils have long been given the opportunity to conquer the whole world. Of course, from the very beginning there were also such specialties as the conductor of the choir and the conductor of the orchestra. Without these specialties, no musical educational institution can even be openly.
But in the past few years, the conservatory has been training specialists who are not graduated from every musical educational institution. These specialties are "musical sound engineering", "pop-jazz singing", "organization management", "folk singing", and this musical education is at the highest professional level.
Publishing house
Since 1994, over twenty titles of books, collections, monographs, and scientific papers have been published here. Topics include performance history, the theory of musical art, teaching methods, music books, study guides in all musical disciplines. Not everyone, even a metropolitan university, can reach such a volume of published educational, methodological and scientific works.
How to proceed
For admission, you must pass the entrance tests, which include the execution of the program and the colloquium. Exams are evaluated on a one-point system, a passing score for each test is sixty. The program can be discussed and finalized at introductory auditions or at preparatory courses, which also function in the RGK im. Rachmaninov. Entrance examinations at each department are taken by a reputable commission.
You can submit documents to the selection committee in June, the numbers in each year are different, you can specify by phone. In the RGK them. Rakhmaninov admissions committee works on weekdays from 11.00 to 16.00 in rooms 205 and 102. For those wishing to receive paid preparation for entrance examinations, detailed information is given on the website of the conservatory. In short, we can say that training is only full-time, the duration of the choice is one or two years. Here you can prepare in such specialties as academic, pop-jazz and solo folk singing, musical sound engineering, variety orchestra instruments.
The international cooperation
The conservatory has signed many cooperation agreements, the terms of which are fully implemented. This is the Scottish Royal Academy of Drama and Music, and the Yerevan Conservatory, and the Belarusian Academy of Music, and the Trento Conservatory (Italy). A unique and one of the most significant projects working since 2007 is the European Youth Opera, the funds for the execution of which were received from the European Union in the form of a grant.
In this decade, long internships of students and teachers of the Rostov Conservatory in foreign universities and theaters were carried out, as a result of which many performances were staged. On the opera stages of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Rostov-on-Don, the performers of the two countries worked together in the productions of Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and some others. In Glasgow and Edinburgh, the world premiere of the new version of Prokofiev’s opera “War and Peace” was held, which caused widespread resonance in the British media, as well as extensive comments on TV in the USA and Europe.
Twenty first century
Educational, creative, scientific, methodological, concert performing and composing activities within the walls of the conservatory continue to develop. Graduates are 100% employed in their specialty, and very often abroad. The success of the conservatory’s pets at national and international competitions can be called disruptive. Better than in other conservatories, research is funded here.
Congratulations to the laureates, literally many hundreds of them, have become familiar. The performing departments of the conservatory are internationally recognized in Japan, the USA, South America, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Bulgaria and other countries, receiving annually diplomas and prizes from the most outstanding world competitions. In Rostov, musicians are good at everything: instrumentalists, vocalists, conductors, composers enjoy unquestioned authority in international musical circles.
Pianists
Pupils of the Rostov piano school in exceptional competition with the most powerful representatives of Russian and foreign academies and conservatories won such prestigious piano contests as Busoni in Italy, competitions in Cincinnati, Takamatzu, Monterrey, Rome, Cantu, Serenier, Varallo, Madrid, Andorra, Queen Elizabeth Competition in Belgium and Schnabel Competition in Germany. The main prize was brought from Atlanta - the Steinway piano ... It is impossible to even list all the won contests in one article. The professors of Rostov pianists are the students of Vlasenko, Oborin, Neigauz, Sofronitsky, Gornostaeva and many other luminaries of the piano school of Russia, as you know, the most powerful and brightest in the world.
The leading professor at the department of special photo piano S. I. Osipenko raised dozens of laureates of the largest world competitions. Professors R. G. Skorokhodova, V. S. Daych, V. V. Orlovsky, E. N. Surin, E. N. Chaplin, N. N. Simonov, O. B. Barsov and others help maintain the piano department at the very high world level of professionalism. It should be noted that the vocalists are equally good at the Rostov Conservatory, which has received recognition both nationally and internationally. Their bonuses are not much less, and they are all no less prestigious. Including the first prizes at the competitions named after Pavarotti, Galina Vishnevskaya and others. The performing school is high both among the orchestra spiritualists and jazz musicians.