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THE JURY XVI International Competition of Performing Musicians and Composers "Romanticism: origins and beyond" in memory of Elena Fabianovna Gnesina

THE JURY

XVII International Competition for Musicians – Performers and Composers

“Romanticism: Its Origins and Beyond”

Dedicated to the Memory of Elena F. Gnesina

June 20 – 30, 2026, Moscow

Head of the Jury

Tamara Rusanova, Piano

Distinguished Fellow in the Arts of the Russian Federation. PhD (Musicology). Laureate of International Competitions. Professor.

President of the Russian Schubert Society.

Artistic Director of the Alemdar Karamanov Center for Support and Development of Contemporary Art.

Artistic Director of the International Art Forum "Romanticism: Origins and Beyond"

Deputy Head of the Jury

Elena Klochkova, Piano

Honorary Staff Member in Culture, the City of Moscow. PhD (Musicology).

Laureate of International Competitions. Associate Professor of Musicology, the “Maimonid Academy” of the Alexei Kosygin University.

Managing Director of the Alemdar Karamanov Center for Support and Development of Contemporary Art.

Members

Та Куанг Донг

Ta Quang Dong, Piano

Candidate of Art History.

Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam

Elena Bagrova, Piano

Laureate of International competitions.

Professor in the Department of Chamber Ensemble and Quartet, the Russian Gnesin Academy of Music.

Andrey Bukhtoyarov, Piano

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Department of Conducting Academic Choir, Special Piano

M.M. Ippolitov-Ivanov State Music and Pedagogical Institute, Professor

Ruzanna Lisitsian, Soprano

Distinguished Artist of the Russian Federation.

People’s Artist of Armenia. Professor of Voice (Solo), the Russian Gnesin Academy of Music.

Elena Arnoldovna Zaremba, Мezzo-Soprano

GRAMMY Award winner. Soloist of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia.

Guest soloist of the largest opera houses in the world.

Department of Solo Singing at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory,

Lecturer at the Vishnevskaya Opera Singing Center, lecturer

Ruben Pavlovich Lisitsian

Ruben Pavlovich Lisitsian, Tenor

Honored Artist of Russia, Professor

President of the German-Russian Cultural and Educational Academy of Cologne.

Founder and head of the school of singing and acting, aswell as the youth studio center "WIR" in Cologne.

Son Son Le, Tenor

Laureate of International Competitions, Director of the Koru-Rt Opera Company (South Korea), Professor, Canada Christian College.

Alexander Zagorinsky, Cello

Distinguished Artist of the Russian Federation. Laureate of International Competitions.

Professor in the Department of Cello, Double Bass, and Harp, the Russian Gnessin Academy of Music.

Alexander Trostiansky, Violin

Dostibguished Artist of the Russian Federation. Laureate of International Competitions.

Professor of. Violin, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

Vladimir Beliaev, Composition

Distinguished Fellow in the Arts of the Russian Federation. Laureate of International Competitions. Professor.

Dmitry Korneev, Composition, Piano

Doctor of Philosophy, Winner Of International Competitions,

Professor at Montclair University, NJ, USA

Mikhail Fomin, Russia -- The Netherlands, piano,

Prize-winner of international competitions.
Concert pianist and pedagogue.
Artistic Director of the Beethoven Music Society-2027, the Netherlands.

Aleksei Vaker, Piano

Winner of international competitions.

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Special Piano,
lecturer at the Department of Chamber Ensemble and Quartet at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music.

Leonid Drutin, Saxophone

Laureate of international competitions, Associate Professor of the Department of Woodwind Instruments of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music