A rush season has began for the higher educational establishments throughout Turkmenistan. University entrants are taking the entrance examinations.

Traditionally, the higher schools of art are the first to finish the campaign of admitting university entrants. The future artists have already entered the Turkmen National Conservatoire, where the competition was three entrants for one student ticket in average.

Today the first-year students of the Conservatoire celebrate the well-deserved victory and make the ambitious plans for the future. According to the selection committee of the Conservatoire the majority of the entrants graduated from the music schools and colleges and successfully performed in various national and international music contests and festivals. For example, a student of the specialized music boarding school Ashir Ashirov participated in the International Young Pianists’ Contest of Central Asia and Chary Nurymov National Youth Music Competition. He won the scholarship of the New Names X International Young Musicians Contest in Suzdal, Russia.

Selbi Gandymova from Ashgabat is among the lucky entrants. She brilliantly plays the dutar and won the first prizes of various music contests and festivals. But many TV viewers know her as an anchorwoman of different music programmes of the Yashlyk TV youth channel. The previous work experience will help Selbi in her studies at the Department of Musicology.

Such students are many – they are to add the glorious pages to the biography of the higher school of music, and perhaps, to the history of national culture.