Michael Blatov is a violinist and graduate of the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory “N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov”. From 1981 to 2019 he was a member of the Aachen Symphony Orchestra.
In 2002 he founded the Anton Rubinstein International Music Academy, which was initially based in the Steinway-Haus Heinersdorff in Düsseldorf and which he still directs today. In 2012, the Anton Rubinstein International Music Academy moved into its rooms in the Haus Goldener Helm in Düsseldorf’s old town. During this period, Michael Blatow was able to continuously expand the Academy’s offerings with Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes through cooperations with the music academies Giacomo Puccini Conservatorio La Spezia/Italy, Fontys University of Applied Sciences (School of Fine and Performing Arts, Faculty of Music) Tilburg/Netherlands, Kalaidos Musikhochschule Zürich/Switzerland. In 2013 he founded the Blatow Foundation, and one year later he opened the branch of the Anton Rubinstein International Music Academy in Berlin.
In 2019, Michael Blatow acquired the Huize Elka in Tegelen and founded the Stichting Beethoven Conservatorium, with the aim of establishing the first private conservatory in the province of Limburg. The Beethoven Conservatorium is supported by the Anton Rubinstein International Music Academy as a cooperation partner.
