This fashionable art noveau building hosts the Rachmaninov College of Music
of tambov, Russia, where i studied in 1991-1995 under Prof. Natalia Kolpakova. Those years were one of the happiest in my life. Since I lived in downtown, the college was located less than a hundred yards away from my apartment. I practiced there every day from 7pm to 10pm, it was an idyllic time. I had amazing piano teachers, who supported





Right at the moment when I left for the Gnessins Academy in Moscow, the institution was reformed, and the democracy was over. Bazikov turned it into his own commercial structure.
What would you think about the music college where the students are denied access to the practice rooms, and in addition to it, have to pay for them every half a year? Sounds impressive
The Rachmaninov College of Music concert Hall with an amzing piano acoustic, where I used to play for dozens of times, is now closed and out of job. last time I played there in 1999
A considerable part of my artistic life was devoted to my native city. between 1989 and 2003 I gave there hundreds of recitals. Since 1990 I aprticipated in the international rachmaninov Music festival, which was held both in Tambov and in Ivanovka. There's a well-known phrase that there's no prophet in his homeland. It concerns me a lot.
Back in Russia in 2002 I was out of recitals and any concert appearances. Shortly before my departure to America I was deprived from the concert both at the Tambov Philharmony and at the Rachmaninov Festival, so I simply had no choice than to leave Russia for good. Let them enjoy their own mediocre performance.
Tambov can live without me, and I can live without Tambov, I'm neither the last nor the least. This is the end of the story.... PS I think it would be great sometime to found a new Tambov in the United States, becasuse there are already a lot of the cities bearing the names of the European capitals and big cities. It would be a great idea in my opinion.
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