Yuri Temirkanov

Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov (Russian: Юрий Хатуевич Темирканов) (born 10 December 1938) is a Russian conductor. Yuri Temirkanov has been the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic since 1988.

Yevgeny Mravinsky

Evgeny Mravinsky was born into an aristocratic and musical family in St Petersburg. His forebears were unusually strong-willed: one aunt, the soprano Evgeniya Mravina, a soloist at the Maryinsky Theatre and much admired by Tchaikovsky for her interpretation of Tatyana in his opera Eugene Onegin, had rejected the advances of the Tsar; and another...

Tatiana Bershadskaya

Tatiana Sergeevna Bershadskaya (born July 1921, Russia, Saint-Petersburg, Russian: Бершадская Татьяна Сергеевна) is a famous Russian musicologist, music theorist, doctor of arts and professor of the Saint-Petersburg Conservatory. She has a title of the Honored Art Worker of Russia. Her farther, Sergey Vladimirovich Bershadskiy, was a conductor, composer, and pupil of N.A Rimsky-Korsakov. Her...

Vladislav Uspensky

Vladislav Uspensky (Russian: Успенский Владислав Александрович; September 7, 1937 – Jun, 2004) was a Russian and Soviet composer. Creation of music is inscrutable but it is possible to trace the sources which feed the style of creator. The life-giving sources of creative work of Vladislav Uspensky are first of all the values of Orthodox...

Andrey Petrov

Andrey Pavlovich Petrov (Russian: Андре́й Па́влович Петро́в; September 2, 1930 – February 15, 2006) was a Russian and Soviet composer. Andrey Petrov (1930–2006) was born in Leningrad. In 1954 he graduated from the Leningrad Conservatoire, where he studied composition at professor O. A. Yevlakhov’s class. Among the titles he was awarded were the laureate...

Sergei Slonimsky

Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimsky is a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist and musicologist. He is a son of Soviet writer Mikhail Slonimsky and a nephew of the Russian-American composer Nicolas Slonimsky. He studied at the Musical College in Moscow from 1943 until 1950. From 1950 Slonimsky was at the Leningrad Conservatory. He studied composition under Boris...

Boris Tishchenko

Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko (Russian Борис Иванович Тищенко; March 23, 1939 – December 9, 2010) was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist. He often considered the direct heir to the legacy of Shostakovich, Tishchenko was born in Leningrad. He studied at the Leningrad Musical College from 1954 to 1957. There he learnt composition under...

Valery Gergiev

The conductor Valery Gergiev has become one of Russia’s most potent cultural symbols. Like few other musicians, he wields extraordinary power in his country as head of Russia’s musical crown jewel, the Maryinsky Theater and its ballet, opera and symphony orchestra in St. Petersburg, which tour under the name Kirov. In August 2008, Mr....

The history of the St.Petersburg State Capella Symphony Orchestra goes back to July 16,...

The history of the worldwide famous the Andreyev State Russian Orchestra (the former Imperial...

The orchestra was established in 1967. Its first leaders were outstanding masters of the...

The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Russia's oldest symphonic ensemble, was founded in 1882. That...

The St. Petersburg Philharmonia, the oldest Philharmonia in Russia, is more than two hundred...

The Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra is one of the oldest in Russia. Its history...