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.
Nikolai Tarasevich
D.A., Honored Culture Worker of Russia
Professor
Vice-rector for Academic Affairs and Methodological Work
Oleg Liang
Ph.D. in Engineering, Honored Builder of Russia
Vice-Rector of Estates and Buildings
Vladislav Agafonnikov
People’s Artist of Russia, Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR
Professor
Leonid Bobylyov
Ph.D. in Art Studies, Honored Art Worker 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
Igor Dronov
Honored Artist of Russia
Professor
Mikhail Dubov
Ph.D. in Art Studies
Professor
Acting Dean of the Faculty of Historical and Contemporary Performance
Maxim Filippov
Professor
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
Yevgeniya Karpinskaya
Honored Artist of Russia
Professor
Acting Head of the Inter-faculty Department of Piano Performance
Igor Kefalidi
Honored Art Worker of Russia
Professor
Valentina Kholopova
D.A., Honored Art Worker of Russia, Awardee of Russia’s Government
Professor
Acting Head of the Department of Interdisciplinary Musicological Studies
Valery Kikta
Honored Art Worker of Russia
Honored Art Worker of Ukraine
Professor
Acting Head of the Orchestration Department
Xenia Knorre
Honored Artist of Russia
Professor
Alexander Koblyakov
Professor
Lev Kontorovich
People’s Artist of Russia, Honored Art Worker of Russia
Professor
Acting Head of the Choral Conducting Department
Olga Loseva
D.A.
Professor
Dean of the Advanced Training Faculty
Yuri Martynov
Professor
Larissa Movchan
Professor
Vadim Novikov
Honored Art Worker of Russia
Professor
Irina Osipova
Honored Artist of Russia
Professor
Acting Head of the Department of the Art of Accompaniment
Evgeny Petrov
Honored Artist of Russia
Professor
Alexander Petukhov
Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR
Professor
Alexei Rudnevsky
Professor
Acting Dean of the Faculty of Symphony and Choral Conducting
Mikhail Saponov
D.A.
Professor
Acting Head of the Department of General Music History
Elena Savel'yeva
Honored Artist of Russia
Professor
Irina Skvortsova
D.A.
Professor
Acting Dean of the Faculty of Musicology and Composition, Acting Head of the Department of Russian Music History
Larissa Slutskaya
Doctor of Education, Honored Culture Worker of Russia
Professor
Acting Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs
Andrey Spiridonov
Professor
Alexander Strukov
Professor
Marianna Vysotskaya
D.A.
Professor
Acting Head of the Contemporary Music Department
Erkin Yusupov
Professor
Lola Dzhumanova
Ph.D. in Art Studies
Associate Professor
Natalia Gur'yeva
Ph.D. in Art Studies
Associate Professor
Yevghenia Izotova
Ph.D. in Art Studies
Associate Professor
Felix Korobov
Honored Artist of Russia
Associate Professor
Tatiana Lebedeva
Associate Professor
Acting Head of the Department of Foreign Languages
Yelena Mityayeva
Associate Professor
Sufiya Muratalieva
Ph.D. in Art Studies, Honored Culture Worker of Russia
Associate Professor
Roman Nassonov
Ph.D. in Art Studies
Associate Professor
Larissa Rudakova
Associate Professor
Natalia Samokhina
Associate Professor
Ivan Sokolov
Associate Professor
Xenia Bonduryanskaya
Senior Assistant Professor
Head of the Center for Coordinating the Conservatory’s Artistic Projects
Ilya Sobolev
Vladimir Stadnichenko
