David Fyodorovich Oistrakh, was a Soviet classical violinist, violist and conductor.
Yuri Yankelevich was a Soviet violin pedagogue who taught many internationally known virtuosos during his long tenure at the Moscow Conservatory.
Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin is a Soviet and Russian composer and pianist, winner of USSR State Prize (1972), the Lenin Prize (1984), and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1992), and is a former member of the Inter-regional Deputies Group (1989–1991). He is also a citizen of Lithuania and Spain.
Dmitri Georgievich Kitayenko is a Soviet and Russian conductor. He was bestowed the title People's Artist of the USSR (1984).
Albert Semionovich Leman was a Soviet composer of classical music.
The International Russian Rotary Children's Music Competition is one of the leading events in cultural life of Russian and European youth. The competition take place in the Moscow State Conservatory P. I. Tchaikovsky or other concert halls in Moscow.
Gintaras Rinkevičius is a Lithuanian conductor, who was awarded the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts in 1994. In 1989 he founded the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra.
Yevgeny Yevgenievich Nesterenko was a Soviet and Russian operatic bass. He made an international career, based at the Bolshoi Theatre. He performed a vast repertoire of 50 leading roles, and was known for the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. He was active in concert, and composers wrote music for him such as Suite on Verses of Michelangelo by Dmitri Shostakovich. He was a teacher at Moscow Conservatory and the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.
Valery Popov is a Russian bassoonist, described as the foremost of his era in Russia in his Grove Music Online entry.
Ilya Haimovich Grubert is a Dutch classical violinist and a professor.
Valery Klimov is a Russian violinist.
The International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians is the junior section of the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition, and it is the largest competition for junior performers up to 17 years of age. The competition was established in 1992 on the initiative of the Association of Tchaikovsky Competition Stars and is held in the sections of piano, violin, and cello.
Savvas Savva, is a Cypriot composer, professor of musicology and pianist.
Leslie Spotz is an American pianist. She is Professor of piano at Tarleton State University.
Edvard Tchivzhel is a Russian-born conductor and music director of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Greenville, South Carolina.
Arvīds Jansons was a Latvian conductor and father of conductor Mariss Jansons.
Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami is a Persian composer of contemporary classical music.
Jóseph Pustýlnik - Soviet composer, violinist, teacher, music theorist, active associate of Johann Admoni on organization of the Seminar of Amateur composers at the composers' House in Leningrad.
Alexander Vasilievich Alexeev was a Soviet and Russian conductor and academic teacher, who received the Honored Artist of the RSFSR award. He was head of the department of opera and symphony conducting at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 2000 and 2008.
Oleg Borisovich Akkuratov is a Russian pianist, jazz improviser and singer who has amaurosis – complete blindness. He is a virtuoso performer of jazz and classical works and a laureate of the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation for young cultural workers (2019).
