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International Relations

One of the priorities for the Conservatory is to develop cultural and creative relations with the post-Soviet Republics and other countries. The program of the Conservatory’s international cooperation with music institutions in different countries has received a great social repercussion. Tours of the professors, visits of foreign musicians, joint concerts and meetings help mutual enrichment of different cultures and make for better understanding. Professors and students actively perform for radio and TV as well as in CD recording. It substantially enrich their concert activities.

The Conservatory is an active member of different international organizations. Since 1998, it is an Associated Member of the European Association of Conservatories and Higher Music Schools, France; the Conservatory is a participant of the Eurasian Summit of Conservatory Rectors (1999);  the Conservatory has initiated  the I-st Founding Congress of the Asian Association of Conservatories and Higher Music Schools (2000).

In addition, Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory is a full member of different international music societies, including Music of Turkic Nations; International Council of Folk Music; European Seminar of Ethnic Music Theory;  and  International Summer Academy of Music Management (Salzburg, Austria). The Conservatory is an initiator of the Asian League of Higher Music Schools. It participates in the European Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM).
In 2000, the Conservatory received a Japanese cultural grant in the amount of 218M yens in kind of 10 concert grand pianos, set of instruments and parts for a symphony orchestra.
Since 2000, the Conservatory has been carrying out an exchange program with the Higher Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris. This is the cultural project of the French Embassy in Kazakhstan. It is implemented under the supervision and with financing of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The scope, structure, and technical support of this cooperation program prompted the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to include it in the list of the most promising and prioritized projects. The European Association of Conservatories named this French-Kazakh cooperation program as the best practice for the whole European community because of its high efficiency and implementation level. This program includes exchange of music curriculums, notation literature, records, concert tours of French professors and students to Kazakhstan, and Kazakh professors and students to France.

Under the aegis of the program with the Paris National Conservatory, master classes and concerts of the leading French musicians were held at the Kurmangazy Kazakh National State Conservatory. These concerts were held in the  best concert halls of Almaty, Astana, and Karaganda with great success. They topped an unprecedented experiment of the join work of Students Symphony Orchestra and conductor Christoph Mangu.

Annually, the Conservatory hosts about twenty official visiting concerts and master classes of foreign performers. They include T. Peterson   (flute), the US; Brass Quintet, the UK; A. Levental (viola), Israel; and Mannheim String Quartet, conductor M. Tomms,  the UK,  and etc.
The cooperation with foreign countries continues in the premises of foreign embassies in Kazakhstan. Conservatory professors and students constantly participate in different festivities and independence days of Israel, USA, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, and other states. Within the framework of this cooperation, the concerts organized by Conservatory jointly with foreign embassies have become regular.

The Conservatory is an organizer of international and national contests of performers such as International Pianist Contest of Central Asian States, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan (2000); I-st International Contest of Violinists, Violists, and Cellists (2001); and International Festival of String Quartets under the patronage of the Soros-Kazakhstan Foundation (2001).
Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory has cooperative relations with higher music schools in France, USA, and Russia. Some of the current international projects are the following:

• Cooperation program with the Higher Paris Conservatory of Music and Dance;

• Cooperation program with German Governmental Organization (DAAD);

• Cooperation program with Goethe Institute (the staff of Cultural Attache of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany;

• Cooperation program with Asian partners , such as the Shanghai Conservatory in China and the Department of Music in the largest Korean University in Tegu;

• Cooperation program with the Conservatory of South China and the National Conservatory of Malaysia;

• Cooperation with the Cultural Section of the US Embassy in Kazakhstan;

• Cooperation with the British Council of the UK;

• Cooperation with the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China;

• Participation in the Silk Road project and Aga Khan’s initiative in the sphere of music in Central Asia;

Some new cooperation programs with the Conservatories of Yekaterinburg, Moscow, and St. Petersburg are to be launched soon.

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