Shahen Shahinyan: Rector who will preserve traditions of Conservatoire will manage to head the establishment
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YEREVAN, JULY 8, ARMENPRESS:
The Yerevan State Conservatoire is singled out with peculiar traditions. Armenpress news agency talked with the acting rector of the Conservatoire Shahen Shahinyan about the existing issues, steps toward preservation of traditions.
- Mr Shahinyan the university is known with its traditions, in your opinion will the change of the rector threaten them?
- The Yerevan Komitas State Conservatoire has deep roots, traditions and the rector who will be able to keep them will be able to manage the establishment, in the opposite case, no.
One of the traditions of the Conservatoire is the peculiarity of the study process, the individual work with students, qualification of lecturers, etc. It is a university of art, and I greatly highlight the individual contacts between the students and lecturers which must be ensured by the first face of the establishment – the rector.
- What will you first of all change in case of being elected the rector? What issues does the Conservatoire face today?
- The first issue is the salary. If our professors, the average salary of who is 50000 AMD, would not work in other places at the same time, they would not be able to survive. This issue must be solved. We must think out a mechanism thanks to which the employee would be paid at his/her worth and a non-working person will not be in the establishment.
- What solution do you see?
- Of course I am not a financer, but I am sure if a head of an organization thinks about the finances of the establishment just like he does it with the finances of his family, enough means will be found and the living conditions of the employees with improve.
- Mr Shahinyan, the students of the Conservatoire have always been singled out with their participation in international contests. What steps does the Conservatoire undertake to encourage their work?
- We have special attitude toward the students who are elaborating wide scale concert activity or are participating in international contests. Our highest credit is that our students are becoming laureates. Our graduates always find their place.
- Does the material-technical base of Conservatoire need upgrading?
- Today the music instruments are rather expensive and are not available for students. That’s why we need upgrading. The pianos are in good state: during the past year we won a Japanese grant and got 18 new pianos. Our problems are connected with wind instruments, it threatens other orchestras of Armenia too.