State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Volgograd State Conservatory named after P. A. Serebryakov" (Russian: Государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Волгоградская государственная консерватория имени П. А. Серебрякова») is one of the Russian conservatories, a higher educational institution of arts in the city of Volgograd. It is named after the Soviet pianist Pavel Serebryakov.
History
The Volgograd Conservatory traces its history back to music classes that opened on January 6, 1911, in Tsaritsyn. They were located in a building on the corner of Moskovskaya and Astrakhanskaya streets. They included training in three specialties: violin, cello and piano. The tuition fee was 80 rubles per year.
The work of the school was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War. It resumed work only in 1957.
Names
The Volgograd Conservatory had the following official names and organizational-legal forms:
1917 to 1923 — Tsaritsyn Music School
1923 to 1936 — Stalingrad Music College
1936 to 1961 — Stalingrad Music School
1961 to 1963 — Volgograd Music School (due to the renaming of Stalingrad to Volgograd)
1963 to 1989 — Volgograd School of Arts
1989 to 1994 — Volgograd School of Arts named after P. A. Serebryakov
1994 to 1996 — Volgograd Higher Municipal School of Arts (College of Arts) named after P. A. Serebryakov
1996 to 2001 — Volgograd Municipal Institute of Arts named after P. A. Serebryakov
2001 to 2003 — Municipal Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education (MEI HPE) "Volgograd Institute of Arts named after P. A. Serebryakov"
2013 to 2015 — Municipal Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education (MEI HPE) "Volgograd Conservatory (Institute) named after P. A. Serebryakov"
2015 to 2024 — Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Volgograd Conservatory (Institute) named after P. A. Serebryakov"
Since 2024 — State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Volgograd State Conservatory named after P. A. Serebryakov"
Structure
The structure of the conservatory consists of the Faculty of Higher Professional Education, the Faculty of Secondary Professional Education, and the Faculty of Additional Professional Education.
Faculty of Higher Professional Education
The Faculty of Higher Education includes the following departments:
Department of Piano Performance
Department of String Instruments
Department of Wind and Percussion Instruments
Department of Folk Instruments
Department of Vocal Arts
Department of Conducting
Department of Pop and Jazz Music
Department of Music History and Theory
Faculty of Secondary Professional Education
The Faculty of Secondary Professional Education includes the following subject-cycle commissions:
SCC "Piano"
SCC "String Bowed Instruments"
SCC "Wind and Percussion Instruments"
SCC "Folk Instruments"
SCC "Vocal Arts"
SCC "Choral Conducting"
SCC "Solo and Choral Folk Singing"
SCC "Music Arts of the Stage"
SCC "Music Theory"
SCC "General Piano"
SCC "Social and Humanitarian Disciplines"
SCC "Painting"
Faculty of Additional Professional Education
The Faculty of Additional Professional Education includes:
Continuing Education Courses
Choral Studio
Training in additional general developmental programs in the arts for children and adults
Students
As of January 2025, 630 students are studying at the Conservatory.
