Moscow

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

E-mail: root@mincult.msk.ru
Web-site: http://www.mincult.isf.ru

State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia

Web-site: http://www.bolshoi.ru

State Academic Maly Theatre of Russia

Web-site: http://www.maly.ru

The State Historical-cultural Museum-preserve "Moscow Kremlin"

E-mail: head@kremlin.museum.ru, interdep@kremlin.museum.ru
Web-site: http://www.kremlin.museum.ru

State Historical Museum

E-mail: igumen@shm.ru
Web-site: http://www.shm.ru

State Musical College named after the Gnessins ("Gnessinka")

E-mail: gmu@gnesin.ru
Web-site: http://www.gnesin.ru

     Specialties:
     Instrumental Performance (piano)
     Instrumental Performance (orchestral strings)
     Instrumental Performance (orchestral winds)
     Instrumental Performance (folk orchestral instruments)
     Academic Voice
     Folk Voice
     Choral Conducting
     Folk Chorus Conductor
     Music Theory

Saint-Peterburg

The State Hermitage Museum

E-mail: interface@hermitage.ru
Web-site: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org

Situated in the center of St. Petersburg the State Hermitage Museum is housed in five magnificent buildings. The Winter Palace, formerly the residence of Russian Emperors which was constructed between 1754 and 1762 after a design of Bartolomeo Rastrelli, occupies an important place amongst the other constructions of the overall Museum ensemble.

Put together throughout two centuries and a half, the Hermitage collections of work of art (over 3,000,000 items) present the development of the world culture and art from the Stone Age to the 20th centure.

"Peterhoff"

E-mail: peterhoff@soros.spb.ru

The Tzarskoje Selo State Museum Reserve

E-mail: sautov@tzar.ru, tzar@spb.cityline.ru
Web-site:http://www.tzar.ru

The Tzarskoje Selo State Museum Reserve is a brilliant monument of world architecture and park and garden artistry of the 18th - 20th centuries. In Tzarskoje Selo the full range of artistic styles is represented, from the Baroque (in buildings by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli) and Classical eras. The compositional center of the ensemble is the Catherine Palace, a magnificent baroque-style palace. The Alexander Palace is one of the best examples of world architecture executed in the classical style.

More than 100 architectural objects with a total area of 300 hectares occupy the territory of the Catherine and Alexander Parks: from the most magnificent palaces and monuments, to pavilions and bridges.

Mariinsky Theatre

E-mail: post@mariinsky.spb.ru
Web-site: http://www.mariinsky.spb.ru

The State Russian Museum

E-mail: info@rusmuseum.ru
Web-site: http://www.rusmuseum.ru

The Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory

     Web-site: http://www.Conservatory.ru
     The Conservatory currently enrolls over 1400 students, 270 of whom are foreign, and has seven faculties:
     *Orchestral
     *Pianoforte
     *Vocal Studies and Opera Directing
     *Conducting
     *Folk instruments
     *History and Theory of Music
     *Composition