RUSSIAN GNESSIN’S ACADEMY OF MUSIC
Department of Choral Conducting
Bachelor’s programme
CHUKOV, Sergey Alekseevich
Head of the Department
Programme presentation. The Faculty of Conducting trains highly qualified bachelors in the framework of the programme “Conducting Academic Choir”. Graduates are prepared for the following professional activities: artistic and creative, cultural and edu-cational, organizational and managerial, pedagogical (secondary and higher professional education institutions, further education institutions). Further training by master’s pro-gramme is available for graduates of the Department.
The programme has successfully undergone public accreditation by European Association of Conservatories and was certified, which proves correspondence of the quality of the implemented programmes to the European Standards and Guidelines for quality assurance in education ESG-ENQA.
Teaching staff. The highest quality of education at the Faculty of Conducting is pro-vided by experienced teaching staff, which includes 11 professors, 6 assistant-professors, 5 PhDs, three Honored Artists of Russia, four Honored Art Workers and two Honored Workers of High School of the
Competitiveness of students. Students acquire necessary skills participating in performance and research activity of the Department, which conducts concerts, festivals, research conferences, seminars in choir and conducting art, musical pedagogics and performance.
The academic choir of full-time students won the grand-prix of the third international competition “Contemporary Art and Education” (2008), the prize of XXX international festival of Orthodox Church Music “Hajnówka” (Bialystok, Poland), first prize of an inter-national competition in Vilnius (Lithuania, 2013). The Ensemble of Modern Choir Music “Altrocoro” won the first prize of the modern music competition “CantiverisPraga” (2012), the golden diploma of the 6th grade of the fourth International Anton Bruckner Choir Competition and Festival (
Interaction with employers. Students’ internship is conducted in cooperation with
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Best Educational Programs: DESIGN
Best Educational Programs: MONUMENTAL DECORATIVE ART
Best Educational Programs: GRAPHIC ART
Best Educational Programs: APPLIED DECORATIVE ART AND FOLK CRAFTS
Best Educational Programs: COSTUME AND TEXTILE ART
Best Educational Programs: DECORATIVE AND APPLIED ART AND FOLK CRAFT
Best Educational Programs: GRAPHIC ARTS
Best Educational Programs: DESIGN
Best Educational Programs: DESIGN
Best Educational Programs: DESIGN
Best Educational Programs: DESIGN
Best Educational Programs: ACTING
Best Educational Programs: PRODUCING
Best Educational Programs: THEATRE HISTORY AND CRITICISM
Best Educational Programs: CHOREOGRAPHY
Best Educational Programs: THEATRE DIRECTING
Best Educational Programs: SET DESIGN
Best Educational Programs: ACTING
Best Educational Programs: ART OF FOLK SINGING
Best Educational Programs: ART OF FOLK SINGING
Best Educational Programs: CONDUCTING
Best Educational Programs: CONDUCTING
Best Educational Programs: VOCAL ART
Best Educational Programs: VOCAL ART
Best Educational Programs: ART DIRECTION OF OPERA AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND ACADEMIC CHOIR
Best Educational Programs: ART OF CONCERT PERFORMANCE
Best Educational Programs: MUSICAL AND INSTRUMENTAL ART
Best Educational Programs: MUSICAL AND INSTRUMENTAL ART
Best Educational Programs: MUSICOLOGY AND APPLIED MUSICAL ARTS
Best Educational Programs: MUSICOLOGY
Best Educational Programs: COMPOSITION
Best Educational Programs: MUSICAL SOUND DIRECTION
Best Educational Programs: ART OF FOLK SINGING
Best Educational Programs: LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES
Best Educational Programs: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITY
Best Educational Programs: ART DIRECTION OF THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES AND CELEBRATIONS