Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory

[csy]

I always hear talented students here auditioning for schools like the Juilliard or the Curtis. But very few of them consider prominent schools like the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory or the top conversatories in France(Paris) or Germany(Hannover or Berlin). As well as I concern, it is those schools that produce the best pianists in the world and achieve well in the major international piano competitions.
Do any people here know somthing about the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory? About their faculty and their admission requirements?

[pianowelsh]

A little. It is one of the worlds  top schools for piano. However it is considered by many that it has lost some of the edge it used to have through underfunding and the loss of several good teachers via death or just them moving on etc. As far as admissions are concerned I dont have any current details. I know they used to have an extremely high technical level for the performers course. At one stage I believe they asked for 6 CHopin etudes in the entry exam. I dont know whether this is still the case.. I dont see why not. I know of many fine pianists who have come out of the Moscow so I dont know whether its just in your part of the world its not so fashionable.  One of my teachers studied there from the age of 6! I dont think the generally admit them that early nowadays.

[thierry13]

At one stage I believe they asked for 6 CHopin etudes in the entry exam. I dont know whether this is still the case.. I dont see why not.

Playing all Chopin etudes is a must for all serious pianists.

[gruffalo]

Playing all Chopin etudes is a must for all serious pianists.

yes, but not usually a done thing for entry. offcourse, learn em as quick as you can, but not all serious pianists can get all chopets done for entries. though i would expect to have all of them or most learned after 1st year.

[franzliszt2]

Richter couldn't play all the etudes  He didn't like some of them. He went to Moscow.

[tds]

though i would expect to have all of them or most learned after 1st year.

dont know, i must be lame or something, but chopets scare the sh*t out of me.

[russda_man]

Playing all Chopin etudes is a must for all serious pianists.

Couldn't agree more with that