The missions of the Rachmaninoff Conservatoire

A school, a venue for the arts, a living heritage

Music & dance

An international private music and dance school

Passing on the desire to develop artistic standards.

For 100 years, the Rachmaninoff Conservatoire has championed excellent teaching in the tradition of the Russian school.
An international dimension, a particular vision of management and exemplary values in teaching are the foundation of the institution's added value.

The Paris Rachmaninoff Conservatoire is distinguished by :

The school provides training or further training :

Enthusiasts of all ages and abilities
Students on the road to professionalism
Professional musicians in master classes with the great masters
From future conductor in a class directed by Mathieu Herzogfrom January 2024
Quartets and trios in the classroom directed by Gabriel Le Magadure
A class of preparation for the international piano competitions for professional musicians

In order to widen access to this teaching, in 2023 the Conservatoire will launch a scholarship scheme:

Heritage

A venue for broadcasting

In keeping with its heritage, in 2021 the Conservatoire will reinvent the Salons Rachmaninoff, musical evenings performed by emerging and internationally acclaimed musicians in intimate formats conducive to the exchange of ideas. transmission and sharing. The aim of this programme is to nurture artistic links with all audiences, and to raise awareness of a rich and sensitive repertoire performed by a new generation of talented musicians.
Chamber music, piano recitals and opera concerts bring together ensembles and soloists of international renown to perform intimate pieces from a vast repertoire ranging from the baroque to the contemporary. After Michel Dalberto, Adam Laloum, Henri Demarquette, Christophe Morin, Vincent Alberola and the quartet Confluence in 2022, Alexei Lubimov, Georges Lepauw, Christophe Morin, Pierre Fouchenneret, Violaine Despeyroux, David Saudubray, Concours E winnersnesco, Irina Lankova, Hee Younk Lim and Kei Saotome, Evelyn Berezovsky, , François Veilhan Trio, but also winners of international competitions, such as Noah Kim, in partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and up-and-coming young musicians.

Heritage

Preserving, promoting and passing on our heritage

In 2024, the Rachmaninoff Conservatoire will join thehe European Musicians' Houses and Museums (EMHM) network of the European Music Centre.
This initiative makes the immense intangible heritage of this historic artistic site:

More than 18,000 scores
From the archives of photos and documents tracing a century of Russian immigration
From letters, photographs and original documents bearing witness to the legacy of the illustrious artists who taught at the conservatoire
Hundreds of books and records
A collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures
A collection of ancient and modern musical instruments

These funds are regularly enriched by legacies personalities committed to the memory of the place and its transmission. They exist today thanks to small and large donations from hundreds of people who, over its 100 years of existence, have understood the importance of preserving this unique heritage. You too can play your part in safeguarding this heritage, so that it can benefit present and future generations. (See the Support the Conservatoire page)

A music library

The monumental collection of scores (4,750 piano scores, 305 symphonic scores, 1,843 chamber music scores, 6,468 vocal music scores, 390 choir scores, 811 opera and ballet scores, 431 method scores, 546 collections, 637 variety music scores and 2,200 manuscripts are to be used in a music library for artists, teachers and musicologists.

The Centenary Book

25 October 2024, the book Russian destinies in Paris. A century at the Rachmaninoff Conservatory. 1924-2024is published by Éditions des Syrtes.

This historical account was made possible by the discovery, in 2020, in the attics of the Rachmaninoff Conservatory in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, of thousands of unpublished archives of generations of artists, most of them Russian, who had left their country to settle in Paris.

The centenary of the establishment, founded in 1924, is an opportunity to rediscover these lives in the midst of the great history of the 20th century, where faith, art and exile intertwine. A true story of exceptional destinies.