“Where are you, my dark-eyed, where? In Vologda, where-where-where, in Vologda-where, in a house where there is a carved palisade”… The song about Vologda is familiar to all Soviet people, but not everyone knows that this city is connected with music much more closely than just a song- hit. There is an excellent music college in Vologda, from whose walls people come out … However, who exactly comes out - as well as more about the aforementioned institution itself - we will learn from the material below.
How it all began
The history of the music college in Vologda is rooted in the beginning of the twentieth century. Exactly one hundred years ago, in 1919, the Folk Music School was opened at the Vologda Proletarian University. It was created by five young people, musicians (a violinist-composer, a cellist, a pianist, a piano teacher and a soloist-vocalist), who came from two metropolitan regions - St. Petersburg and Moscow. Having received an appropriate education there and having goteventually to Vologda, they decided to organize their own music school there. No sooner said than done: in February, a small announcement about the opening appeared in the Krasny Sever newspaper, and since April, the Folk Music School has opened its doors to everyone.
And there were many who wanted to, and a successful start resulted in further successful work. The indicators of the new music school were high, and only two years later it was reorganized into the State Music School of the second stage (that is, designed for teenagers). However, it still seemed insufficient to work only with children, and therefore, after a couple of years, the Folk Music School turned into a musical technical school with a children's music school of the first stage attached to it.
It was a real breakthrough! After all, what is Vologda in those years? An ordinary "out of the ordinary" provincial town, without an abundance of concert halls, philharmonic halls, conservatories and everything that would not surprise a resident of the capital. The newly formed musical college in Vologda became not only an educational institution (from which, by the way, many musicians and performers who later became famous came out), but also a kind of concert venue that introduced the townspeople to music - its various types. Soloists and choirs, classical music and jazz - that just did not sound from the stage of the technical school, the leadership of which, not being completely satisfied with the presence of only its own institution in Vologda, achieved the opening of a working philharmonic society there as well. In general, with the advent of the musical college in Vologda, a realmusical revolution.
Later life in the twentieth century
In the thirties, the Vologda Music College was turned into a regional educational institution; almost immediately it was renamed again - it became known as the regional music school. During the war years, most of the male employees and many students went to the front, and after those terrible years, the life of the music school began to slowly return to its usual peaceful course.
Since the sixties, new areas of training began to open, including the theoretical department (before the educational institution trained only practitioners). At the end of the sixties, the school received a new building for use, where it successfully moved, and almost at the very end of the last century it acquired its own hostel - however, in an extremely sad dilapidated state. We managed to make repairs in the building on our own, and today the hostel of the Vologda Music College is open for its temporary residents.
Vologda College of Music today
Today, the musical educational institution in Vologda is a separate educational complex, on the basis of which both a music school for gifted children and a school of pedagogical practice function. The institution has its own concert hall, objectively considered one of the best in the entire district, as well as a huge fund of musical instruments, which is constantly replenished. Classes are equipped at the highest modern level, there is a musicalan information complex designed to acquaint future music virtuosos with previous world achievements in this field.
The new century brought changes to the Vologda School of Music regarding the name: in 2006 it became a college, and four years ago, as a result of another reorganization, the Music College of Vologda turned into a regional college of arts (however, many continue to call it by its usual former name and by now).
Enough in the institution and their creative teams - after all, without them, no cultural institution can be fully referred to as such. Several excellent orchestras of various kinds (brass, variety, and so on), several choirs - these collectives of college students are known and loved by all of Vologda.
Speci alties
Today you can enter the Vologda College of Music for any of the eight speci alties available in it. These are acting art, music theory, sound engineering department, variety art, solo and choral folk singing, choral conducting, vocals and instrumentalists department. The latter is subdivided into four more directions - you can choose either the piano, or strings, or wind and percussion instruments - or the instruments of the populist. After graduating from such a speci alty, you can work in any orchestra, be an accompanist, and, of course, a teacher.
The vocal department at the college is one of the oldest, it has been functioning since the twenties of the last century. Most ofstudents after graduation continues their studies at conservatories in order to be able to go to work abroad in the future. Some people return to their native land already as a vocal teacher. In addition, private schools can be opened.
Choral conducting is also one of the first speci alties of the Folk Music School, but acting was opened at the college only seven years ago, this is the “youngest” direction of training. As mentioned above, the theoretical department as a separate, independent direction has been functioning since the sixties, however, disciplines related to this speci alty have been taught at the college before - from the very moment it was opened in 1919. Sound engineers in the institution are trained for one year more than actors, and pop artists (both songwriters and instrumentalists) have been trained for twelve years now. As for choralists, this department separated from choral conducting at the end of the seventies of the last century, as there was a need to develop and preserve folk singing traditions.
Admission conditions
Applicants are admitted to the Vologda College of Music from the twentieth of June on weekdays. Applicants should keep in mind that training in any speci alty takes place full-time, for three years and ten months.
The admission committee must submit an application drawn up according to the model (the sample can be downloaded on the official websiteeducational institution or get acquainted with it directly at the admissions office), documents (passport, papers on education, citizenship), medical certificate and photographs. For more details, this information can be clarified by contacting representatives of the educational organization.
Manual
At present, Lev Isaevich Trainin, a violin teacher and an honored musical worker of our country, holds a high and responsible post of director of the Vologda Music College. Lev Isaevich is already quite an old man, but this does not in the least prevent him from remaining a good teacher and leader, firmly holding the reins of the educational organization in his hands.
At one time, Trainin graduated from the Gorky Conservatory - in the violin, of course - and came to work in Vologda, first at the Philharmonic, and then at the same music college, which he now manages. He has come a long way to the chair of the chief: he was a teacher, then - deputy director for academic work, and from 1990 to this day he has been invariably in charge of the institution.
Contact information
The address of the Vologda College of Music is as follows: Gorky street, house number 105. Hostel address: Oktyabrskaya street, house 19.
As for the necessary e-mail and / or phone numbers of the institution for communication, you can easily find them on the official website of the educational institution. In the same place, by the way, you can familiarize yourself with its mode of operation.
How to get there
FindMusic College of Vologda on Gorky, 105, is not difficult at all, even if you do not know the city. By buses 2, 8, 14, 16 or minibuses 4, 9, 23, 30, 42 and 55 you can get to one of the stops - "Tchaikovsky Square" or "Music College". In the first case, you will need to go back a little, in the second, go forward a little, and the one hundred and fifth house will be right in front of you.
Vologda, College of Music: reviews
What do people say about the current art college of the aforementioned city? In general, different - as well as about any other educational institution. Some scold - for example, some teachers for boring classes or unfriendliness, some praise - for example, the abundance of various and unusual disciplines that captivate with their name alone. In any case, if the results of the work of the music college were bad, it would not keep afloat - and, moreover, very successfully! - a whole hundred years. And that means something!
Interesting facts
- The first director of the Vologda Regional Music College, and then the Folk Music School, was Ilya Ginetsinsky, who, in addition to being a violinist and composer, was also a music teacher, organizer and conductor of a symphony orchestra.
- Vologda College of Arts - former College of Music - is one of the oldest educational institutions in the field of music and culture in the northwestern region of our country.
- Many students of the aforementioned institution become laureates of various competitions andfestivals, including those abroad.
- Vologda Regional College of Arts is one of the top ten musical educational institutions in the country.
That's probably all you need to know about the Music College of Vologda. Let's hope that extraordinary talents will continue to come out of its walls in the future, capable of giving the listener great pleasure from music.
