Graduate School

The graduate school at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (formerly the Gnesin State Music Institute until 1992) was established in 1948.

Among the first graduate students of the institute were B.S. Ionin, G.A. Maltseva, O.D. Boshnyakovich, V.A. Berlinsky, F.G. Arzamanov, L.B. Dmitriev, L.B. Bulatova, I.P. Mozgovenko, I.A. Givental, E.V. Nazaykinsky, M.A. Etinger, and others. The supervisors of the first graduate students were renowned professors, including E.F. Gnesina, G.G. Neuhaus, T.D. Gutman, N.D. Shpiller, K.B. Ptitsa, A.D. Alexeyev, Yu.I. Yankelovich, A.L. Yokheles, N.A. Verbova, M.S. Pekelis, S.S. Skrebkov, B.V. Levik, and others.

In 1968, the division was made between the graduate school (for musicologists) and the assistant-traineeship (for performers and composers). Over the years, more than a thousand people have completed our graduate program (musicology) and more than 2,500 have completed the assistant-traineeship. Graduates of the graduate school and assistant-traineeship of Gnesin State Music Institute - Gnesin Russian Academy of Music are employed at many universities in Russia and abroad, with a significant portion becoming professors, renowned scholars, and performers.

Currently, the Academy prepares graduate students and candidates in the fields of 50.06.01 Art Studies and 44.06.01 Education and Pedagogical Sciences (scientific specialties: 17.00.02 – Musical Art and 13.00.02 – Theory and Methodology of Teaching and Education (music), 13.00.08 – Theory and Methodology of Vocational Education), as well as in new scientific specialties 5.10.3 Types of Art (musical art) and 5.8.7 Methodology and Technology of Vocational Education.

Admission to the Academy's graduate school in 2023 was conducted for full-time study in accordance with the current Procedure for Admission to Higher Education Programs—programs for training scientific and academic personnel in graduate school, approved by Order No. 721 dated August 6, 2021, of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, and the plan of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation approved for the current year (this typically includes 5-8 budget places, including targeted admission, as well as extrabudgetary places). The annual competition for graduate school admission averages 2-3 applicants per place.

At the same time, about 40 people are studying in the graduate school. The supervision of graduate students and candidates is carried out by doctors and candidates of sciences, most of whom are professors at the Academy. Many of them are People’s and Honored Artists, Honored Figures of Arts, scholars, and performers known in our country and abroad.

The range of scientific interests of the Academy's graduate students is quite broad: it includes research on music theory, the history of musical culture—both Russian and foreign, the history, theory, and methodology of performing arts, as well as the history, theory, and methodology of professional education, music education, and upbringing.

Over the past 5 years, about 30 graduates of the graduate school have defended their candidate dissertations.