Management
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Michael Blatow
Founder and director of the International Music Academy and Pre-Colleges
Michael Blatow is a violinist and graduate of the St Petersburg State Conservatory “N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov”. He was a member of the Aachen Symphony Orchestra from 1981 to 2019.
In 2002, he founded the Anton Rubinstein International Music Academy. During this period, Michael Blatow was able to continuously expand the Academy’s range of Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes through collaborations with music academies in Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. In 2014, he opened a branch of the Anton Rubinstein International Academy of Music in Berlin.
A pre-college has also existed at the music academy for several years, which will be offered both in Germany and abroad from 2023.
Management and secretariat
Yuri Bondarev, born in St. Petersburg, switched to the viola after studying violin at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin and was accepted into the class of Prof. Tatjana Masurenko at the Leipzig Musikhochschule, where he also took his concert exam. Since 2012 he teaches as a lecturer for violin, viola and chamber music at the International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein,
Contacts:
Yuri Bondarev
Head of the Pre-College – Strings Department
The Italian pianist Gabriele Leporatti is active throughout Europe, the USA and China and performs in many renowned concert halls. He is currently a lecturer at the Anton Rubinstein International Music Academy in Düsseldorf, regularly gives masterclasses and lectures worldwide. Several of his students have won prizes at international piano competitions. He is also active as an artistic advisor at concert series and festivals and as a jury member at international competitions.
Contact:
Gabriele Leporatti
Head of the Pre-College – Keyboard Department
Ella was born in Moscow to a family of musicians. From 1996, she studied at the Robert Schumann University of Music in the two degree programmes “Artistic Instrumental Training” and “Instrumental Music Pedagogy”, majoring in piano. Since 2014, she has been working as an assistant director/project manager for various educational institutes and at the Anton Rubinstein International Music Academy in Düsseldorf.
Kontakt:
Ella Mischenko
Secretariat