Teaching staff

Her musical education began at the Children art school named after Mussorgsky in Tver in the class of honored worker of culture of the Russian Federation I. V. Kurganova. She then studied at the Tver College of Music named after M. Mussorgsky, in the class of honored worker of culture of the Russian Federation T.A.Shlyapnikova. During her studies she repeatedly became the winner of a scholarship «Young talents of the Tver region», she took part in the annual Bach Festival, held by the Tver Philharmonic.

In 2014 she graduated and in 2016 she earned a master’s degree at the Gnesins Russian Academy of the Music (class of honored artist of the Russian Federation, Professor V. Nosina). In 2013, she graduated from the Institute of business, psychology and management with a degree in psychology.

In 2018, she completed an assistant internship at the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music majoring in «The art of musical instrumental performance; Solo on the piano» (supervisor – Professor V. Nosina).

Since 2012, she has been working as a concertmaster at the Department of Opera training of the Gnesins Russian Academy of the Music.

In 2016-2019, she worked at the GRAM at the Department of methodology and pedagogy as the head of teaching practice.

She worked as a concertmaster at MAMT. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. She is currently working in MGDMT named after N. Sats.

She is an active performer, takes part in international festivals, concert projects, and performances of the GRAM Studio theater.

She is a laureate of international competitions:

• «Musica classica», Ruza (nomination «Piano solo» – 2010, 1st prize; 2014, 1st prize; nomination «Art of accompaniment» – 2013, 1st prize; nomination «Piano ensemble» – 2014, 2nd prize).
• «Music without borders» (Lithuania, Druskininkai – 2010, 2nd prize).
• Diploma of the Delphic youth games – (Tver, 2011).
• Laureate of the European Chopin center – international piano forum «Bieszczady bez granic», (Sanok, Poland, 2012).
• Winner of the Grand Prix of the competition for music teachers (Warsaw, Poland, 2015).
• Winner of the «Path to mastery» competition (Rostov-on-Don 2016, 1st prize).
• Winner of the «Musical fireworks in Baden-Württemberg» competition (Muehlacker, Germany 2016, 2nd prize).
• Winner of the Bursa nilufer international piano competition (Turkey, Bursa 2016, 2nd prize).
• Winner of the L. Janacek competition (Brno, Czech Republic 2017, 2nd prize).
• Winner of the Grand Prix of the Art Duo competition (Vienna, Austria, 2017).
• Winner of the Art Duo competition in the Chamber ensemble category (Prague, Czech Republic 2018, 1st prize).

Publications:

The study of author’s interpretations as one of the directions of work in the piano class: on the example of the creative heritage of N. K. Medtner / / Musical art and education. – 2018. – №3 (23). – P. 129-146.

N.K. Medtner-reflexive artist: composer, pianist, teacher / / Musical art and education. – 2020. – Volume 8 No. 1. – Pp. 73-89.

V.Nosina is a Professor at the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music, a Merited Artist of the Russian Federation, a Honoured Cultural Worker of Kyrgyzstan and a Laureate of numerous international competitions.

She began her musical education at the Samara School of Music in the class of Tamara Barynina, then continued her studies at the Samara Music College in the class of Lydia Muravyeva.

From 1960 to 1967, she studied at the Gnesin State Musical Institute (now The Gnesin Russian Academy of Music). She also did a postgraduate course under the guidance of Professor Alexander Iokheles, an outstanding representative of the school of  K.N. Igumnov.

Since 1965 she has been working at The Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. At the same time, she taught special piano classes at the Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music (from 2005 to 2013 – Head of the Department of Special Piano), and at the Chopin Moscow State College of musical performance. For a number of years, she also worked at the Gnesin Moscow State College of Music, regularly conducting master classes in Russia and abroad.

More than 170 graduates have finished studies in the V.B. Nosina’s class. Among them there are many famous musicians, Folk and Honoured Artists of Russia and Kirghizia, Honoured Cultural Workers of the Russian Federation, Honoured Workers of Higher School, holders of academic degrees in Art History and Pedagogical Sciences, Doctoral Degrees in Musical Arts (USA).

Many of her students have received high awards at prestigious international competitions, including Horowitz and Memory of E. Gilels (Ukraine), C. Filtsch (Romania), N. Rubinstein (France), «Les nuits pianistique» in Aix-en-Provence (France), «Golden Parnassus» (Poland), Princess Lalla Meriem (Morocco), L. Janacek in Brno (Czech Republic), J.S. Bach in Würzburg (Germany), «Premio Jaen» in Jaen (Spain), competitions in Houston (Texas, U.S.A.), in Zurich (Switzerland), S. Benditsky (Saratov), S. Savshinsky (Saint-Petersburg), D. Kabalevsky (Samara), Z. Ismagilov (Ufa), M. Balakirev (Krasnodar), «Path to mastery» (Moscow; Rostov-on-Don), all-Russian «Delphic games» (Moscow; Yekaterinburg), A. Karamanov (Simferopol).

V.Nosina performs in Russia, Europe (Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Denmark, Lithuania, etc.) and in the United States. She conducts seminars and masterclasses, gives lectures on musical styles and performing skills in many cities in Russia, the CIS, Europe and the USA.

B. Nosina’s scientific work is mainly devoted to the study of Baroque music and, in particular, the work of J. S. Bach. She is the author of a number of articles, including those translated into foreign languages, and two monographs.

  B. Nosina is a member of the jury of many international competitions: in Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Lithuania, and Russia.

As a Vice-President of the International Association of teachers and musicians «Art and education of the XXI century», she organizes international forums, festivals and competitions in Greece, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Lithuania, Russia, including: festival-competition «Musica Classica» (Moscow, D.T.C. «Ruza»), festival-competition «Music without borders» (Lithuania, Druskininkai).

Liudmila Pluzhnik graduated from the Gnesin Moscow Special School of Music in the class of V.Polunina in 1993. Afterwards, L.Pluzhnik graduated from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in the class of PhD in Arts, Professor Lina Bulatova – student, assistant, colleague and close friend of Elena F. Gnesina. 

After graduating from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music Liudmila Pluzhnik began teaching as an assistant in the class of her Professor Lina Bulatova.

L.Pluzhnik is the winner of international competitions, including: 

• The winner of the II prize of the International Piano Competition, Athens, Greece, 1996.
• The winner of the IV Independent International Competition of Pianists and Opera performers, Moscow, 2012.
• The winner of IX International Competition of Musicians-Performers and Composers «Romanticism: its Origins and Beyond», Moscow, 2017.
• The winner of the XXII International Festival-Competition «Musica Classica», Ruza, Russia, 2017.

Liudmila Pluzhnik performed in England, Italy, Greece, Japan, China, in different cities of Russia and Moscow. She performed with the orchestras, including the Minsk Philharmonic Orchestra. In conjunction with Tchaikovsky State Academiс Grand Symphony Orchestra – conductor A. A. Vedernikov – she did the first performance of the Concerto No. 3 for piano with orchestra by Alexander Baltin, which took place at the Great Hall of  the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory.

By now Pluzhnik L.V. has educated nearly 40 graduates. Many students of her class have become the prize-winners of the international competitions. She also conducted piano masterclasses in different cities of Russia, Japan and China.

Liudmila Pluzhnik headed and was a member of the jury of children’s music competitions in different cities of Russia and Moscow. 

For more than 15 years she collaborated with the People’s Artist of the RSFSR, Soloist of the Bolshoi Theater, Head of the Department of Solo Singing at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (1985-2011), Professor Valentina Levko, being the concertmaster of her student’s class. This creative friendship has had a significant impact on the formation of performing and teaching views of Liudmila Pluzhnik.

Koshvanets finished the Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he received his undergraduate degree with Prof. B.Belenky, and completed his graduate studies in the class of Prof. V.Klimov. 
A. Koshvanets performed with the Gewandhaus orchestra, the Dresden State Chapel Orchestra, the Odense-Symphony, the Hanover Radio Orchestra, the NHK Japan Radio and Television Orchestra, the E.F.Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the Ukrainian national orchestra, the Berlin symphony orchestra and many others. He has worked with such conductors as: V. Gergiev, T. Zanderling, P. Kogan, S. Violin, E. Serov, O. Maga, V. Dudarov, D. Liss, V. Zdorenko, J. Panula, V. Ponkin. Currently A.Koshvanets is a soloist at the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic.

A.Koshvanets has won First Prizes in three international competitions: the Bach Competition in Leipzig (Germany) in 1984, the Carl Nielsen competition in Odense (Denmark) in 1987, and the Bellini competition in Caltanissetta (Italy) in 1995. He constantly tours Russia, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Japan, Korea and other countries, performing with solo concerts. He performs in many international festivals, actively participates in charity events and concerts organized by various charitable foundations.

A.Koshvanets combines touring with pedagogical and educational activities. In 1988 he began teaching at the Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky conservatory (as an associate professor at the violin department). In 2009 he headed the department of violin and viola at the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music. He constantly participates in the work of state certification and examination commissions, as a jury of international and regional competitions.

D.Lukiyanov is a timpani soloist. He was the head of the percussion group of the Academic Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra (1981-2003) and the head of the percussion group of the Russian National Orchestra (2003-2013).
D.Lukiyanov is the author of a number of methodological works, collections of studies, transcriptions of plays written for other instruments as well as the author of his own compositions for percussion instruments. Dmitry Lukiyanov’s students work in the best orchestras in Russia, such as the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra of Russia, the Russian National Orchestra, the New Russia Orchestra, the State Orchestra of Russia and many others. His students teach at higher educational institutions of Russia.
Publications:

• RHYTHMIC DIALOGUES For timpani and snare drum
• SCATTERING OF RUDIMENTS For the ensemble of percussion instruments
• SKETCH AND FUGUE For the ensemble of percussion instruments
• Suite for multipercussion and pianoforte CONCERT FANTASIA after G. Bizet’s «Carmen» and «L’Arlesienne» for percussion duo and piano
  

Finished the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music in 1965.

The range of activities of Vladimir Tonkha is extremely wide. He performs solo and symphonic concerts, plays in chamber ensembles, including the Moscow Cello Quartet, which he has created.

The repertoire of Vladimir Tonkha is enormous, embracing all periods of cello music. He also performs numerous arrangements and transcriptions for other instruments, many of which are done by him.

He has toured successfully in the majority of European countries, Japan, the United States and Canada and performed in the concert halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Petersburg Philharmonic, Concertgebouw (Holland), Gewandhaus, Cologne Philharmonic, Suntory Hall (Japan) and many others.

Vladimir Tonkha’s musical talent has attracted the attention of contemporary composers for years. He is known as an outstanding interpreter of contemporary music, the first performer of over a hundred new works of domestic and foreign music. His album with Sofia Gubaidulina’s Seven Words of Christ released by Melodiya and recorded with Timur Mynbaev and Fridrikh Lips brought him a Golden Diapason of the French Diapason magazine in 1993. V. Tonkha has also partnered with other great musicians: Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Valery Gergiev, Eric Klass, Yuri Bashmet, Gidon Kremer, Irina Arkhipova, Yuji Takahashi, Tatyana Grindenko, Oleg Yanchenko and many others.

Tonkha has been a judge at a number of international and domestic competitions, including several Tchaikovsky Competitions. He has also participated in many international festivals in Helsinki, Lokenhaus, Tokyo, Beauvais, Amsterdam, Budapest, Salzburg, Boston, etc.

As the head of the department of cello, double bass and harp of the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music, V.Tonkha has trained many laureates of International and All-Russian competitions. His students successfully perform in Russia and abroad, work in leading Russian universities and universities of many countries.

A.A. Gorbachev is considered as one of the leading schoolmasters for balalaika. Since 1997 he worked as a teacher for the S.V. Rachmaninov Institute of Music in Tambov. From 2000 until now he has been teaching at Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in Moskow, presumed to be the best Music Academy in the whole Russia. In 2004 he took here over the lead of the folk-string instruments department and few years later was assigned the highly honourable title of Professor.

A number of students have been taught by A.A. Gorbachev, seven of them became winners of foremost music competitions in Russia as well as in other countries. The list of his students can be seen at www.andreygorbachev.com

A.A. Gorbachev is author of ten books of music, Modern school of balalaika playing (2018) as well as writer of more than thirty articles published in professional journals in the last years.
A.A. Gorbachev developed and introduced the new kinds of techniques of playing balalaika, establishing therewith a new epoch for balalaika. He implemented new techniques of balalaika-playing; some of techniques were demonstrated by him for the very first time in music history, as well as presented a new and modern way of balalaika-sound.
He is in constant and close cooperation with a number of composers. The composers, such as Sergey Slonimsky, Mikhail Tzayger (USA), Mikhail Bronner, Efrem Podgaytz, Kirill Volkov, Anatoly Kusyakov, Alexander Tsygankov, Evgeny Derbenko, Alexander Rogachev and others wrote and dedicated their works to A.A. Gorbachev. A.A. Gorbachev
premiered seventeen compositions for balalaika, making thereby a big contribution to the
balalaika music repertoire.

In the last 30 years A.A. Gorbachev has given more than 3 thousands performances all over the world. He played as a soloist on the stages of Russia, Great Britain (here he played for the Queen Elisabeth II), Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Ukraine, Poland, Portugal, Hungary, Turkey and Japan. Since 2000 A. Gorbachev has given concerts with Lothar Freund in Germany, Switzerland, France, USA etc.
From 1990 to 2015, A. Gorbachev performed as part of the «Classic duet» with the honored artist of Russia T. Khaninova.
Since 2011, he has been performing in jazz projects with people’s artist of Russia D. Matsuev.
The most significant concerts:

• 2010, Turkey, Ankara arena, solo section with the Turkish Presidential orchestra (12.000 spectators)
• 2016, Moscow, Kremlin Palace of congresses, performance in D. Matsuev’s project «jazz games» (5,700 spectators)
• 2016, Saint Petersburg, BKZ «Oktyabrsky», performance in the project of D. Matsuev «games in jazz» (3600 spectators)
• 2017, New York, USA. Carnegie hall. The first ever solo concert of a balalaika performer.

A.A. Gorbachev performed various concerts with the leading orchestras of Russia and other countries: the President Orchestra of Russia, President Orchestra of Turkey, National Orchestra N.I. Osipov (Moskow), V.V. Andreev Orchestra (Saint-Petersburg), Symphony Orchestra of Zelena Gura in Poland, Adana Orchestra (Turkey), SWR Symphony Orchestra (Germany), Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra (Germany), Symphony Orchestra of GartnerPlatz Opera (Germany), Chamber Orchestra of Bavaria (Germany), Crested Butte Festival Symphony Orchestra (USA), Washington Balalaika Symphony (USA), Symphony Orchestras of Voronezh, Omsk, Saratov, Vologda, Tambov, Izhevsk (Russia), Orchestras of folk-instruments «Moskva», «Skomorohi» (Sankt- Petersburg), Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Cherepovets, Kemerovo, Krasnojarsk, Lipezk,
Novokuznets, Briansk, Smolensk, Petrozavodsk, Tambov, Tula, Jaroslavl (Russia) and «Pole» folk orchestra (Tokyo, Japan).
As a leading balalaika player of Russia and actually of the whole world, A.A.Gorbachev is often invited to take part in various music competitions as a jury member, mostly as a head of jury. So far there have been 200 music competitions in Russia, Germany, Ukraine and Japan, where A.A.Gorbachev played his role as a chef and jury member.

Y.Agisheva was born in Minsk (Belarus) in 1975, finished the Gnessins Special Music School as a pianist and a musicologist. In 1998 graduated from the Gnssin Russian Academy of Music as a musicologist. In 2001 finished Post-Graduate Courses of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.

In 2010 graduated from the University Russian Academy of Education as a linguist and a teacher of English.

Y.Agisheva has been working at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music since 1998.
2010-2012 – Head of the Department of Foreign Languages
2012-2018 – Head of the Department of Musical-Applied Arts
2018-till present – Head of the Department of Musical Journalism

Y.Agisheva delivers lectures on History of Fine Art, Theatre Directing in the XXth century, Harmony, English, Basics of a Professional Translation, Scientific research of students at bachelor, master and post-graduate courses at the Academy. 

Publication in English:

Composer Elizabeth Lutyens: Contribution to Serialism // Space of Culture. Burganov House. 2019. No. 4. pp. 147-160.  https://burganova-text.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/yuliya-i.-agisheva.pdf

Professor Dina Kirnarskaya has been working at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music since her graduation from Ph.D. studies in 1987. She has been Vice-Rector of the Academy since November 2003 until now changing the direction of her vice-rectorate from Creative Work and Research to Public Relations for which she is responsible at the moment. Her interest in psychology of music and music perception triggered her two Ph.D. degrees – first in Musicology at the Moscow Conservatory (1998) and the second at the Psychology Department of St.Petersburg University (2006). She has won Fulbright Grant twice and as a Visiting Professor continued her research at Harvard University and Boston College as well as in London University due to the grant of British Council. Dina Kirnarskaya’s results were published by Oxford University Press in her book «The Natural Musician: on Abilities, Giftedness and Talent» and in the paper written together with her co-author Ellen Winner in Psychomusicology «Musical Abilities in a New Key: Exploring the Expressive Ear for Music». 

Dina Kirnarskaya participated in lots of international conferences where various aspects of music education were discussed. The most meaningful among them are Arts in Education UNESCO Congress in Seoul (2010), Developmental Psychology Conference in Bergen, Norway (2011), Psychology Conference in Osaka (2013) and ISME Conferences in Glasgow (2016) and Baku (2018). Dina Kirnarskaya is the founder of the former Production Faculty and the UNESCO department of Musical Mastery and Contemporary Performing Arts at the Gnesin Academy – the only one that exists in the Russian higher education system.

Besides musical abilities and talent Dina Kirnarskaya is interested in increasing the popularity of classical music. She is practicing the so-called «inter-art method» to help people better understand academic music through its various connections with fine arts and literature of the time. The example of this method is her book «Classical Music for Everyone» with a preface by Vladimir Ashkenazy and recommendations by Vladimir Spivakov and Gidon Kremer. The book has been re-published in 2020. 

Since mid-90-s Dina Kirnarskaya has also been a journalist and musical critic. She is a frequent guest and expert on different TV channels and radio-stations of national significance such as Perviy Channel, Russia-1, Culture and others.

Doctor of Arts, Professor of Music History at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, Member of the Union of Russian Composers
Vera B. Valkova graduated in musicology from the Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) State Glinka Conservatory in 1971 with her thesis, «Musical Dramaturgy in W. Lutosławski’s Symphony No. 2.» In 1977, she completed studies at the Gnesin State Musical Institute in Moscow and, four years later, defended her post-graduate dissertation, New Perspectives on Thematicism in Soviet Symphonic Music of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1993, Dr. Valkova defended her doctoral dissertation, Musical Thematicism — Thought — Culture. Since 2000, she has lived and worked in Moscow, combining her pedagogical work as Professor of Music History at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music with her work as Senior Academic Fellow at the State Institute for Art Studies (from 2008).
Dr. Valkova’s students A. Bibikova and E. Kluchnikova are prizewinning academic authors.
Dr. Valkova is the organizer of a series of academic conferences that have taken place at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and which have since become an international biannual cycle: «Musical Sociology: New Strategies in the Humanities» and «Musicological Forum,» first held in 2007 and 2010, respectively. She has also participated in numerous international conferences: in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Volgograd, Krasnoyarsk, Tampere (Finland), Vilnius (Lithuania), Berlin, Leuven (Belgium), and London.
Dr. Valkova is the author of the monographs Musical Thematicism — Thought — Culture (Nizhny Novgorod, 1992), S. V. Rachmaninoff and Russian Musical Culture of His Time (Tambov, 2016), and A Chronicle of the Life and Work of S. V. Rachmaninoff: Part I: 1873–1899 (Tambov, 2017). There are more than one hundred publications by her, including «Intertextual Dialogs in Rachmaninoff’s The Bells,» in Sociocultural Crossings and Borders: Musical Microhistories, edited by Rūta Stanevičiūtė and Rima Povilionienė (Vilnius: Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, 2015), 470–80; and «The Category of the ‘Spread-Out Theme’ in Contemporary Russian Music Theory,» in Topical Areas of Fundamental and Applied Research XII (North Charleston, SC: spc Academic, 2017), 14–23.

Daria Rodionova defended her dissertation research on the topic «Music management as a value phenomenon of the spiritual culture of Russia» in 2019. She has organised several international cultural projects in Serbia and Austria. In 2019 she was awarded with a letter of gratitude from the Director of the Russian House in Belgrade (Russian Center for Science and Culture in Serbia) for a great personal contribution to promoting Russian culture abroad and strengthening the spiritual ties of the fraternal peoples of Serbia and Russia.

Daria Rodionova has experience in a commercial bank, as well as in government service.

She is the author of over 20 scientific articles, has several publications in the Scopus journals. She is also the author of two coursebooks.

Publications in English:

1. Mayarovskaya Galina V., Rodionova Daria G. The Russian Gnesins’ Academy of Music as a Foundational Methodological Center for Development of Education in the Sphere of Culture and Art. Problemy muzykal’noj nauki/Music Scholarship. 2018. No. 2, pp. 106–110. DOI: 10.17674/1997-0854.2018.2.106-110.
2. Historical and cultural features of the formation of music management in the context of spiritual culture functioning Russia: genetic, diachronic and synchronous approaches), С. 87-96. Proceedings of the 2020 Inter-national Conference on Culture, Education and Financial Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2020). Paris: Atlantis Press, 2020 – P. 87-96. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200316.022, ISSN 2352-5398