Protests in Russia against music school reform
Important representatives of Russian musical life, including pianist Denis Matsuev, are protesting against the Russian government's plans to impose new standards on the country's music schools. These could make it impossible to train the musical elite.
The Russian Council for Culture and the Arts and the directors and teachers of the special schools have been up in arms for weeks against the new measures of the Ministry of Education, writes the trade magazine Pizzicato. The Council of Central Schools of Music in Moscow unanimously rejected the new training standard.
She is convinced that the standardized regulations could "ruin the quality of music teaching, especially in elite schools such as the Gnessin Institute". According to the new regulations, for example, vocational training will start later than before. Too late for the highly talented, say the critics.
