Vladimir Fedoseyev

VLADIMIR FEDOSEYEV
PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR

People’s Artist of the USSR. Vladimir Fedoseyev started his career of symphony conductor in the orchestra of the Leningrad Philharmonic at the invitation of Eugene Mravinsky. His debut as an opera conductor took place in the Kirov (Mariinsky) theater in Leningrad.

Since 1974 Vladimir Fedoseyev is the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the State Academic Big Symphonic Orchestra (BSO) named after P. I. Tchaikovsky, from 1997 to 2006 — the principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony orchestra; 1997 — the guest conductor of the Zürich Opera House, 2000 — the principal guest conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic orchestra, the guest conductor of the orchestra of the Bavarian Radio (Munich), National Philharmonic orchestra of French Radio (Paris), Symphony orchestra of the Finnish Radio, Berlin Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, the orchestras of Stuttgart and Essen, Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

Performed the productions in theaters of Europe: La Scala (Rimsky-Korsakov’s "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", Tchaikovsky’s "The Queen of Spades" opera, "The Sleeping Beauty" ballet), the Vienna Opera (Bizet’s "Carmen", Mussorgsky’s "Boris Godunov", Bartok’s "TheMagic Mandarin"), Zürich Opera House (Glinka’s "Life for the Tsar", Rubinstein’s "The Demon", Verdi "Attila", Prokofiev’s ballet "Cinderella", Tchaikovsky "Queen of Spades"), in the Pleyel Hall (Rimsky-Korsakov’s "The Snow Maiden", Rachmaninov’s "Aleko" and Tchaikovsky’s "Eugene Onegin”). The maestro took part in the festival in Bregenz (Berlioz’s "The Condemnation of Faust", Rimsky-Korsakov’s "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh", Rubinstein’s "The Demon", Montemezzi’s "The Love of Three Kings", Rimsky-Korsakov’s "The Golden Cockerel"). In 2012, at the Salzburg Trinity Festival, he conducted “Cleopatra” opera by Massenet. In 2015, Vladimir Fedoseev conducted new productions of "La Scala" – the Tchaikovsky's ballets “The Nutcracker” and “The Sleeping Beauty”.

At the end of 2016, with the production of Puccini's "Turandot" maestro Fedoseev began cooperation with Helikon Opera Moscow Musical Theatre. Since March 2017 he is the Principal Guest Conductor of Helikon-Opera.

Vladimir Fedoseyev is the holder of numerous prizes and awards, including the order of "For Merits before Fatherland" (IV, III and II degree), the order of St. Vladimir, order of St. Sergius of Radonezh I degree, the Silver Cross of the Austrian Republic and the Order of the Honor Cross of I degree for merits in culture of Austria, the gold medal of the International Gustav Mahler society. In October 2013, the Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Maestro with the Medal of Honor.