18 Notable alumni of
Belarusian State Academy of Music
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The Belarusian State Academy of Music is 1712th in the world, 586th in Europe, and 8th in Belarus by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from the Belarusian State Academy of Music sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Alexander Tikhanovich
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Alexander Grigorievich Tikhanovich was a Soviet and Belarusian pop singer, former member of the ensemble Verasy. He was named Honored Artist and People's Artist (Belarus).
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Mieczysław Weinberg
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- composerpianist
- Biography
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Mieczysław Weinberg was a Polish, Soviet, and Russian composer and pianist. Born in Warsaw to parents who worked in the Yiddish theatre in Poland, his early years were surrounded by music. He taught himself to play the piano at a young age and eventually became skilled enough to substitute for his father as a conductor at Warsaw's Jewish Theatre. During this period, he began to compose. At the age of 12, he started formal music lessons and soon thereafter enrolled at the Warsaw Conservatory. He studied piano with Józef Turczyński, who considered him and Witold Małcużyński as one of his best students. In 1938, Weinberg played for Josef Hofmann, who offered to teach him at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Weinberg declined, because he preferred to focus on composition instead; the invasion of Poland that initiated World War II in 1939 also made it impossible for him to accept. As the Wehrmacht advanced on Warsaw, Weinberg left his parents behind and fled with his sister towards the Soviet border. Discomfort forced his sister to turn back in mid-journey—he never saw her or the rest of his family again. During his only subsequent visit to Poland in 1966, he learned that his family had been murdered at the Trawniki concentration camp.
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Yadviga Paplawskaya
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- composersinger
- Biography
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Yadviga Konstantinovna Poplavskaya is a Soviet and Belarusian singer, member of the first ensemble Verasy and a People’s Artist of Belarus (2005).
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Maryja Kaleśnikava
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- politician
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Maria Kalesnikava is a Belarusian professional flutist and political activist. In 2020, she headed Viktar Babaryka's electoral campaign during the presidential elections of 2020 in Belarus. Kalesnikava represented the united campaign of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, then she became a member of the presidium of the Coordination Council formed during the 2020 Belarusian protests in opposition to the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. She is also a founder of the 'Razam' political party.
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Mikhail Kazinik
- Enrolled in the Belarusian State Academy of Music
- Studied in 1975
- Occupations
- violinistmusicologist
- Biography
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Mikhail Semyonovich Kazinik is a music lecturer, teacher, television and radio presenter, and a popularizer of classical music.
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Mark Fradkin
- Enrolled in the Belarusian State Academy of Music
- Studied in 1938-1939
- Occupations
- composerfilm score composer
- Biography
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Mark Grigoryevich Fradkin was a Soviet composer, author of numerous popular songs (many of which were co-written with poet Yevgeny Dolmatovsky) and musical scores for forty films. In 1979, Mark Fradkin received the USSR State Prize and, in 1985, he was granted the status of the People’s Artist of the USSR.
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Igor Luchenok
- Enrolled in the Belarusian State Academy of Music
- Studied in 1961
- Occupations
- composermusic educatorfilm score composer
- Biography
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Igor Mikhailovich Luchenok was a Belarusian composer, People's Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (and People's Artist of the USSR), and chairman of the Belarusian Union of Composers.
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Yuri Zisser
- Enrolled in the Belarusian State Academy of Music
- Studied in 2015
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Yuri Zisser was a Belarusian programmer and entrepreneur, known as a founder and owner of TUT.by, the most visited Belarusian web portal.
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Maimuna
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- concertmasterviolinistpedagogue
- Biography
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Maimuna Amadu Murashko, known professionally as simply Maimuna, is a Belarusian violinist who represented Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 along with Uzari with the song "Time".
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Margarita Levchuk
- Enrolled in the Belarusian State Academy of Music
- Studied in 2016
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Margarita Levchuk is a Belarusian opera singer (soprano). She is a soloist of the Musical House "Classics"; a soloist of the National Opera and Ballet of Belarus; the finalist of the project on the TV channel "Russia-K" "Big Opera" (2017). Levchuk is one of the most famous opera singers in Belarus.
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Dmitry Smolsky
- Enrolled in the Belarusian State Academy of Music
- Studied in 1960
- Occupations
- composermusic educatorfilm score composer
- Biography
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Dmitry Smolski was a Belarusian composer, Honored Artist of Belorussian SSR (1975), laureate of the State Prize of BSSR (1980), National Artist of the Republic of Belarus (1987), laureate of the Order of Francysk Skaryna (2013), and professor. Dmitry Smolsky was the father of Victor Smolski, best known as the guitarist of the German band Rage.
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Anatoly Bogatyrev
- Enrolled in the Belarusian State Academy of Music
- Studied in 1937
- Occupations
- composersingermusic educator
- Biography
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Anatoly Vasilyevich Bogatyrev was a Soviet and Belarusian composer and music teacher, seen as one of the leaders of the national school of Belarusian music.
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Niescier Sakałoŭski
- Enrolled in the Belarusian State Academy of Music
- Studied in 1935
- Occupations
- folkloristchoir directorcomposer
- Biography
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Nieścier Sakałoŭski, or Nestor Sokolovsky, was a Soviet composer.
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Lidia Axionov
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- music educatorchoir directorconductor
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Lydia Valeryanovna Axionova Romanian: Lidia Axionov; Russian: Лидия Валерьяновна Аксенова; July 19, 1923, Pokrovsk — September 18, 2019, Chișinău, Moldova) — Soviet and Moldovan conductor, music teacher, choral theorist, music writer, the first professor of choral conducting in Moldova, Honored Artist of the Moldavian SSR.
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Halina Harelava
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- music educatorcomposer
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Halina Kanstancinaŭna Harełava, also known as Galina Gorelova, is a Belarusian contemporary composer.
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Marina Osman
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- pianistpiano teacher
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Marina Vasilieva Starostenkova Osman, is a Belarusian classical and jazz concert pianist.
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Ilya Silchukov
- Enrolled in the Belarusian State Academy of Music
- Studied in 2005
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Ilya Silchukou, could also be spelled Ilya Silchukov, is a Belarusian Baryton-noble Baritone. He debuted his career in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at the National Opera and Ballet of Belarus in 2005. Ever since his debut he has shared his appearance at several European opera houses. His academic and vocal achievements had shown his preparedness and the alertness of a true opera singer.
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Eta Tyrmand
- Enrolled in the Belarusian State Academy of Music
- Studied in 1949
- Occupations
- composerpedagogue
- Biography
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Eta Moiseyevna Tyrmand was a Belarusian composer.
