Rubin Abdullin (organ) Rubin Abdullin is the rector of the Kazan Conservatoire, a People's Artist of Russia and of the Republic of Tatarstan, an Honoured Artist of Russia, a recipient of the State Prize of Russia, a jury member of many All-Russian and international competitions and Chairman of the Russian Union of Organists. He graduated from the Kazan State Conservatoire in piano (class of Professor E.A. Monaszon) and trained as an organist at the Leningrad State Conservatoire under Professor N.I. Oksetian. He completed further training as a teacher and performing organist during his postgraduate studies at the Moscow State Conservatoire under L.I. Roizman. He frequently performs in concert both in Russia and abroad. In the 1980s he performed an entire series of extensive concert series, among them From the History of Organ Music, J.S. Bach, His Predecessors and Contemporaries, If Bach had kept a Diary and Portraits of Organist Composers among several others. He has performed the premieres of many works by contemporary composers, which he has also recorded. Rubin Abdullin's onstage partners include Natan Rakhlin, Ravil Martynov, Vladimir Minin, Yuzo Toyama, Fuat Mansurov, Irina Arkhipova and Alexander Korneyev.