M.Agin has been working in the area of arts and culture for more than 45 years. In 1980 he began teaching at the Gnesins State Pedagogical Institute (today – the Gnesins Russian Academy of music) at the department of solo singing. In 2011 he became the head of the department.
During his teaching career M.Agin has trained 70 alumni who successfully work in opera and music theaters, as soloists of philharmonic and concert organizations. Four of them got honorary titles of People’s Artist and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, more than half of them became laureates of All-Russian and International vocal competitions and festivals, work as teachers in music schools and universities. Among them: G. Kamenny, T. Khanenko, L. Erokhina. E. Boreyko, I. Chernov, I. Gureev, A. Danilov, K. Simonov, I. Kozhinov, M. Dyadichenko, O. Semenova. E. Olkhovskaya, S. Tarasov, S. Samoylov, L. Prosviryakova, L. Yuryev, N. Asriyan, O. Golovleva, I. Gadaev, K. Eshba, E. Dolgasheva, T. Kryukov, E. Tarusova, Z. Kabardokova, Handbold Enkhnaran and others.
M.Agin visited South Korea three times with solo singing master classes at Seoul Korean Art Conservatory. He has established the International competition named after N.Shpiller “Masterpieces of Russian music” which is conducted annually.
M. Agin is engaged in a large scientific, methodological and research activities. He is the author of 185 published works (books, articles, programs, study guides, music books, anthologies of vocal and pedagogical repertoire, etc.) He constantly participates in the work of state certification and examination commissions, as a jury of international and regional competitions.
