Teaching Staff

During the year 2009, various master classes and seminars were being taught by pedagogues of the Central Music School at Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov College of Arts of the Pskov Region (Western Russia), Vassily Safonov Secondary Music School of the Stavropol Region in the City of Mineralnye Vody (North Caucasus), and P. I. Tchaikovsky Institute of Music in the City of Chelyabinsk (Southern Ural), as well as at the Secondary Music Schools of the Bryansk and the Vologda Regions (Central Russia).

The following school pedagogues took part in the master classes:

• pianists — Natalia Bogdanova, Nina Makarova (Honored Culture Worker of Russia), Darya Ryabova and Andrei Zhavoronkov;

• music theorists — Yelena Abyzova (Head of the Music Theory Department), Olga Boyko, Ekaterina Bykanova and Ekaterina Serdechnaya;
• violinists — Tatyana Polozova, Alexander Revich, Anna Sokolova and Galina Turchaninova (Honored Art Worker of Russia);
• violist Maria Sitkovskaya, cellist Olga Galochkina (Asst. Prof. at the Moscow State P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory), oboist Maxim Orekhov, clarinetist Vladimir Ferapontov, and trumpeter Ivan Maloshtanov.

The master classes and seminars were taught to students and teachers of children schools of art, as well as to those of secondary music schools in the Cities of Chelyabinsk and Mineralnye Vody, as well as in the Bryansk, Pskov, Stavropol and Vologda Regions.

The Central Music School pedagogues working schedules were coordinated with the secondary music schools administrations and the heads of local teaching theory centers. According to the feedback from the sites, the visits of the Central Music School pedagogues greatly enriched the attitude of the local teaching staff towards the teaching of music theory subjects, and the given master classes were a sample of making decisions on some individual music education tasks, whereas the methodical brought guidance books and the draft educational programmes were found priceless by the local teachers.