THE JURY
XV International Competition of Performing Musicians and Composers "Romanticism: origins and beyond"
in memory of Elena Fabianovna Gnesina

Head of the Jury

Tamara Rusanova

Tamara Rusanova, Piano

Distinguished Fellow in the Arts of the Russian Federation. PhD (Musicology). Laureate of International Competitions. Professor.

President of the Russian Schubert Society.

Artistic Director of the Alemdar Karamanov Center for Support and Development of Contemporary Art.

Artistic Director of the International Art Forum "Romanticism: Origins and Beyond"

Deputy Head of the Jury

Elena Klochkova, Piano  

Honorary Staff Member in Culture, the City of Moscow. PhD (Musicology).

Laureate of International Competitions. Associate Professor of Musicology, the “Maimonid Academy” of the Alexei Kosygin University.

Managing Director of the Alemdar Karamanov Center for Support and Development of Contemporary Art. 

Members

Yuri Slesarev, Piano

People’s Artist of the Russian Federation. Laureate of International Competitions. Professor of Piano Solo, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. 

Ta  Kuang  Dong, Piano

PhD (Musicology). Deputy Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism, of Vietnam. 

Miroslav Kultyshev photo-Daniil Rabovsky

Miroslav Kultyshev, Piano 

Laureate of International competitions, St. Petersburg  Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, Associate Professor of the Department of  Piano Solo

Elena Bagrova, Piano

Laureate of International competitions. Professor in the Department of Chamber Ensemble and Quartet, the Russian Gnesin Academy of Music.

Ruzanna Lisitsian, Soprano

Distinguished Artist of the Russian Federation. People’s Artist of Armenia. Professor of Voice (Solo), the Russian Gnesin Academy of Music. Instructor at the Bolshoi Theatre Youth Program. 

 Elena Zaremba, Mezzo-Soprano

Grammy Award Nominee, Staff Member of the Bolshoi Theatre Company.

Guest Soloist at the La Scala Theatre, the Metropolitan Opera, and other major opera companies all over the world, Assistant Professor of Voice (Solo), Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

Instructor at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre. 

Aleksei Martynov, Tenor

People’s Artist of the Russian Federation. Laureate of International Competitions. Professor of Voice (Solo), Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

Board Member of the Russian Schubert Society. 

Kostantin Hristov

Konstantin Hristov, Вass

Distinguished Artist of the Russian Federation. Laureate of international competitions.

Department of Choral Conducting at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Professor

Son Son Le, Tenor

Laureate of International Competitions, Director of the Koru-Rt Opera Company (South Korea), Professor, Canada Christian College.

Alexander Zagorinsky, Cello

Distinguished Artist of the Russian Federation. Laureate of International Competitions. Professor in the Department of Cello, Double Bass, and Harp, the Russian Gnessin Academy of Music. 

Alexander Trostiansky, Violin

Dostibguished Artist of the Russian Federation. Laureate of International Competitions. Professor of. Violin, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

 Vladimir Beliaev, Composition

Distinguished Fellow in the Arts of the Russian Federation. Laureate of International Competitions. Professor.

Korneev

Dmitry  Korneev, Composition, Piano

Doctor of Philosophy, Winner Of International Competitions,

Professor at Montclair University, NJ, USA

Misha Fomin

 Mikhail Fomin, Russia -- The Netherlands, piano,

 Prize-winner of international competitions.
 Concert pianist and pedagogue.
 Artistic director of the Beethoven Foundation (NL)

Alexey Nikolaevich Wacker Aleksei Vaker, Piano

Drutin

Leonid  Drutin, Saxophone

Laureate of international competitions, Associate Professor of the Department of Woodwind Instruments of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music