About Us
The Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory (Kazakh: Құрманғазы атындағы Қазақ ұлттық консерваториясы) is a high musical institution in Kazakhstan which trains composers, musicologists, conductors of the choir and folk orchestras, pianists, vocalists, art managers, performers on all instruments of the symphony orchestra and folk instruments.
Many creative collectives of the country, educational institutions are staffed with graduates of the conservatory. Pupils of the conservatory work in professional collectives from near and far abroad such as in Russia, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Israel, USA, France, Czech Republic, Canada, Korea, China and others.
On 24 July 1944, the Council of People's Commissars of the Kazakh SSR decided to organize from October 1 the State Institute of Arts in the city of Alma-Ata, which was later transformed into the Alma-Ata Conservatory. In 1945, the university was named after the Kazakh kuishi of the 19th century Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev. In the first building, built in 1938, before the conservatory there was a musical and choreographic combine.[1]
In the early 1960s, another building and a dormitory with 120 living rooms, 42 rehearsals, reading and sports halls and a spacious hall was built.
In the 1981–1982 academic year, more than 1200 students studied at the conservatory, 234 teachers worked, including over 20 professors and doctors of sciences, about 50 associate professors and candidates of sciences, 5 people's artists of the Soviet Union, 7 people's artists of the Kazakh SSR.
