Alexander Kantorov

Artistic Director

Alexander Kantorov was born in 1947 in Leningrad. He graduated from the Leningrad State Conservatory - both as a violinist (Prof.: Mikhail Vaiman) and as an opera and symphonic conductor (Prof.: I.Mussin); completed postgraduate education (Prof: Maestro Temirkanov). Alexander Kantorov began his career as the conductor of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He was the founder and Principal conductor of two symphony orchestras (Sverdlovsk and St.-Petersburg). The second one was named later the KLASSIKA Orchestra.
His repertoire embraced a wide range of musical classics from different epochs and of different styles, including masterpieces by Tchaikovsky, Taneyev, Rakhmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich as well as Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Berlios, Dvorak, Mahler, Brukner, etc.

Main Stage 1 Teatralnaya ploschad (1 Theatre Square), St. Petersburg, Russia

Mariinsky II (New Theatre) Dekabristov str. 34, St. Petersburg, Russia

Concert Hall Dekabristov str. 37, St. Petersburg, Russia

Alexandrinsky Theatre Ostrovsky Square 6, St. Petersburg, Russia

Mikhailovsky Theatre 1 Arts Square, St. Petersburg, Russia

Hermitage Theatre Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya (Embankment) 34, St. Petersburg, Russia

Hermitage Museum Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya (Embankment) 34, St. Petersburg, Russia

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