Anna I. Rudneva

Teacher, Head of the Vocal Department and Professional Guidance at the Gnessin State Musical College of Pop and Jazz Arts.

Education:

• October Revolution State Music College, 1969 (diploma with honours);
• Gnesin State Musical and Pedagogical Institute, 1974.

Professional activity:

• Since 1972 – Moscow State Chamber Choir under People’s Artist of the RSFSR V. N. Minin (ensemble singer);
• Since 1988 – Gnessin State Musical College of Pop and Jazz Arts, teacher of pop and jazz voice and vocal ensemble.

Awards and titles:

• Badge of Honour «For Services to Culture» of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation;
• Honorary title «Honoured Cultural Worker of the Russian Federation».

In 1976 she was awarded the highest category as a vocal‑ensemble artist by the Ministry of Culture.

Publications, artistic and concert activity:

As a member of the Chamber Choir she has toured repeatedly abroad (USA, Canada, Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, etc.) and throughout many regions of Russia (the former Soviet Union).

Alongside her work with the Moscow Chamber Choir she also performed with the State Symphony Cinema Orchestra as a vocal soloist, ensemble singer and chorus conductor (1973–1992). During this period she took part in the recording of more than 300 feature, animated and television films, studio albums and archival radio recordings.

In 2003 the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the All‑Russian House of Folk Art published her teaching handbook «Vocal Ensemble» in the collection «Chisty golos». She also authored a syllabus for the course «Vocal Ensemble» for the speciality 070109 Musical Art of Pop.

Among her graduates are:

Prize‑winners and diploma‑holders of all‑Russian and international competitions and festivals such as:

• Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland);
• «Golos Azii» (Kazakhstan);
• «Yurmala»; «Stupen k Parnasu» (Moscow);
• «Zvezdy Vostoka v Moskve»;
• «Golosa 99» (Sochi); «Festos» (Moscow);
• «Yalta»;
• «Lestnitsa v nebo» (Moscow);
• «Usadba Jazz» (Moscow);
• «Otkrytaya Evropa» (St Petersburg);
• «Creative Wave» (Sofia), among others.

They have also taken part in television projects such as:

• «Bitva khorov»;
• «Faktor A»;
• «Glavnaya stsena»;
• «Golos» (A. Vorobyeva – winner of season 3, M. Merabova – finalist of season 3);
• «Muzykalnaya laboratoriya» (A. Balashova – winner of the Presidential Grant competition);
• «19th World Festival of Youth and Students» in Sochi (A. Pozdnyakov – director of the combined rock orchestra), among others.