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Rising Stars Program

Upon the rector’s initiative in 2001, the conservatory launched a unique educational project “Rising Stars”. The 5 year long project is aimed at supporting and further promotion of the most gifted young Kazakhstani musicians. Its goal is to timely detect musically gifted children, give them additional special education, provide with all kinds of assistance, and promote the best students so to make them the world-class musicians.

The program is conducted in the form of distance learning with examinations in summer and winter. It includes masterclasses, individual classes, and contests for specialties in Piano, String Instruments, Wind Instruments and Drums, and Folk Instruments. In the course of the program its participants have an opportunity

-          take consultations and individual classes of recognized domestic and foreign instructors and musicians;
-          take internship in the leading theaters and bands of the republic and even abroad if qualified enough.;
-          take part in national and international contests;
-          receive personal scholarships;
-          perform solo and with the leading musicians and orchestras;
-          acquire additional knowledge in the theory of music, esthetics, performing practice, acting, management, computer science, and foreign languages;

In 2001 – 2003, over 300 young musicians from different Kazakh cities (Almaty, Karaganda, Pavlodar, Petropavlovsk, Uzt-Kamenogorsk, Atyrau, Chimkent) as well as students of music colleges in Uzbekistna, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Azerbaijan have taken part in the Rising Stars project. Some of the participants are Stanislav Hegai, Grand Prix winner and a laureate of the first international contest among pianists of Central Asia and Kazakhstan (Almaty, 2000), Bulat and Botagoz Tynybekovs, laureates of international contests and grantees of the special scholarship from the Youth Union of Kazakhstan, and many others.
The special educational program Rising Stars is made by the efforts of leading professors of the Kazakh National Conservatory. It includes collective and individual classes, masterclasses, counseling, lectures, lectures, and practical workshops. During the 2000 summer session, a group of musicians from Paris conservatory of music and dance and professors from Moscow and St Petersburg conservatories took part in the program .

The Kazakh National Conservatory named after Kurmangazy enjoys well-deserved acknowledgement from the global music community and government support. It is open for creative interaction and experiment. The conservatory actively introduces innovative technologies. Unshakable principles of the solid Conservatory team in all the spheres of activity is quality.

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