Petersburg Conservatory Research Articles

The Electronic Music School Studio at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory of St. Petersburg

Coordination Acoustique Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. Since its opening, the studio has supported work in research, creative and pedagogical directions, much of it accomplished with the contributions of the St. Petersburg Conservatory students and pupils of the Glinka Choral College. Some results of this work, including students' experimental and/or electronic compositions, were demonstrated in 1994-1995 at several interna-

Alexander Tcherepnin Septuagenarian

Sasha Tcherepnin, a tall boy for his age, was a familiar figure at the St. Petersburg Conservatory fifty-odd years ago, as he was seen walking down the corridors accompanied by his father Nicolas Tcherepnin, professor of composition and conducting, teacher of a generation of Russian composers, and himself a composer of stature. Paradoxically, it was Sasha's mother, not his father, who gave him his first music lessons. As soon as he learned to manipulate the piano keys, he began making up tunes of his own. There was so much music lying around the house that he picked up the rudiments of notation intuitively. He learned notes and the Russian alphabet at the same time. Now, at seventy, he cannot even remember when he could not read Russian words or musical notes.