Kazan Conservatory

Zhiganov Kazan State Conservatory (Russian: Казанская государственная консерватория имени Н.Г.

Жиганова) is a higher musical education institution in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia.

The conservatory was founded in 1945 by Soviet Tatar composer Najip Jihanov who was a rector of the institution during 1945-1988.

The educational programmes are realised at seven departments - piano, orchestra, choir conducting, vocal, folk instruments, theory and composition, Tatar musical art.

Since 1989, the rector of the institution is professor Rubin Abdullin [tt], the first organist of Tatar ethnicity.