The N.G. Zhiganov Kazan State Conservatory (Russian: Казанская государственная консерватория имени Н.Г. Жиганова) is a higher musical education institution in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. The conservatory was founded in 1945 by Soviet Tatar composer Najip Jihanov who was a rector of the institution during 1945-1988. In 2000 the Conservatory was named after him.
In 2009, the Conservatory had around 110 faculty members and 700 students. The educational programmes are realised at seven departments - piano, orchestra, choir conducting, vocal, folk instruments, theory and composition, Tatar musical art. Since 1989, the rector of the institution is professor , the first organist of Tatar ethnicity. Since 2021, the rector of the institution is professor .
Notable faculty Najip Jihanov Albert Leman Fuat Mansurov Mansur Mozaffarov Natan Rakhlin
Notable alumni Vlada Borovko - operatic soprano Larissa Diadkova - mezzo-soprano (transferred to Saint Petersburg Conservatory) Youri Egorov - pianist (transferred to Moscow Conservatory) Sofia Gubaidulina - composer (1954) Oleg Lundstrem - jazz composer and conductor (1953) Almaz Monasypov - composer, conductor, and cellist. Airat Ichmouratov - composer, conductor, and clarinetist. Mikhail Pletnev - pianist, conductor, and composer (transferred to Moscow Conservatory)
External links Kazan Conservatory website (in Russian) Kazan Conservatory website (in English)