Alexander Wassiljewitsch Alexejew

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Alexander Alexejew in a rehearsal (1973).

Alexander Wassiljewitsch Alexejew (Russian: Александр Васильевич Алексеев, scientific transliteration Aleksandr Vasil'yevich Alekseyev ; born March 10, 1938 in Belkowo, Novgorod Oblast ) is a Russian conductor.

Career

From 1957 to 1966 he studied choral and orchestral conducting with KA Olchova and Edouard Grikurow at the Leningrad Conservatory . Between 1971 and 1972 he was one of the few officially selected Soviet conductors, like Mariss Jansons , to study with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna.

Hans Swarowsky teaches in Ossiach (1972). Alexander Alexejew on the left behind him.

Before he became chief conductor of the Ulyanovsk State Orchestra, first engagements as conductor of the Ulyanovsk State Orchestra, the Leningrad Opera (now the Mikhailovsky Theater ) and the Chelyabinsk State Opera and Ballet Theater. After two years at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow (1982-84), Alexeyev, who refused to become a member of the Communist Party, was refused to leave the country to take up the position of chief conductor of the Finnish Radio Orchestra in Helsinki. So he worked as chief conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Kharkiv until the end of the Soviet Union until 1992. Alexejew was responsible for recordings with various Russian orchestras, a. a. with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra for the Melodya label . In addition, he worked regularly with leading soloists from the Soviet Union such as Gidon Kremer , Oleg Kagan , Vadim Repin , Juri Baschmet , David Geringas , Natalia Gutman , Dmitri Alexeev , Mikhail Pletnev , Grigory Sokolov and Dmitri Bashkirov .

Mstislav Rostropovich (center), Alexander Alexejew (center right), and Eduard Serow (right) with students in Volgograd (1973).

In addition to various musical theater productions at the Leningrad Opera, in 1966 he conducted Katerina Izmailova with Larissa Avdejewa in the main role of Katerina Lvovna Ismailova (with the participation of Dmitri Shostakovich during rehearsals).

In 1978, Alexeyev received the Award of People's Artist of Russia .

Since 1992 he has been a professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory . Between 2000 and 2008 he was head of the conducting department.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hemma Ottitsch: Enthusiasm there, subsidy wanted . In: Small newspaper . August 17, 1972, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Melodia. A Russian Concert . Retrieved May 11, 2019.
  3. ^ Profile Conducting Faculty, Saint Petersburg State Conservatory . Retrieved May 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Alexejew, Alexander Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexeev, Alexander; Alekseyev, Aleksandr Vasil'yevich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Belkovo, Novgorod Oblast