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Offline csy

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Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
on: October 24, 2006, 02:01:25 AM
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? ;)

Offline pianowelsh

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Re: Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
Reply #1 on: October 24, 2006, 09:28:56 PM
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.

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Re: Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
Reply #2 on: October 26, 2006, 12:43:01 AM
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.

Offline gruffalo

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Re: Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
Reply #3 on: October 26, 2006, 09:29:35 PM
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.

Offline franzliszt2

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Re: Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
Reply #4 on: October 27, 2006, 02:28:15 PM
Richter couldn't play all the etudes  :P He didn't like some of them. He went to Moscow.

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Re: Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
Reply #5 on: October 27, 2006, 03:11:32 PM
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.

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Offline russda_man

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Re: Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
Reply #6 on: September 08, 2008, 08:59:36 AM
Playing all Chopin etudes is a must for all serious pianists.

Couldn't agree more with that
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