Saint Petersburg Conservatory - Notable Graduates

Notable Graduates

  • Alla Aranovskaya – violin
  • George Balanchine – choreographer
  • Alexander K. Borovsky – pianist
  • Richard Burgin – violinist, conductor
  • Leonid Desyatnikov – composer
  • Sergei Diaghilev – impressario
  • Vladimir Drozdoff – pianist, composer
  • Heino Eller – composer
  • Gagik Gaboyan – bassoonist
  • Valery Gergiev – conductor
  • Jascha Heifetz – violinist
  • Alexander Ilyinsky
  • Anatoli Ivanov – composer, conductor, percussion
  • Mariss Jansons – conductor
  • Alfrēds Kalniņš – composer, organist
  • Artur Kapp – composer
  • Yuri Khanon – composer, writer, laureate of the European Film Awards.
  • Eduard Khil – singer
  • Gustav Kross - pianist
  • Aleksandra Kroutikova – singer
  • Miroslav Kultyshev
  • Anatoly Lyadov
  • Sasha Mäkilä – Finnish conductor
  • Witold Maliszewski
  • Nathan Milstein – violinist
  • Anna Netrebko
  • Nevsky String Quartet
  • Nikolai Obukhov – composer
  • Leo Ornstein – composer
  • Sergei Prokofiev – composer
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff – pianist, composer
  • Gal Rasché – conductor
  • Clara Rockmore
  • Dmitri Shostakovich – composer
  • Vladimir Sofronitsky – pianist
  • Grigory Sokolov – pianist
  • St. Petersburg Quartet
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – composer
  • Yuri Temirkanov – conductor
  • Léon Theremin
  • Dimitri Tiomkin – pianist, composer
  • Solomon Volkov – musicologist
  • Ivan Yershov – singer
  • Anna Yesipova – pianist
  • Mikhail Youdin – composer
  • Maria Yudina – pianist
  • Valery Zhelobinsky – pianist, composer

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