RUSSIA Honored artist of Russia. From 2000-02, Pavel Sorokin was chief conductor of the Radio and Television State Symphony Orchestra. Сonductor of the Bolshoi Theatre. From 2007, he has been a guest conductor at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

(1946 - 2004) Russian conductor, professor of music. Chief conductor of the Saint Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra and the Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestra, People’s Artist of Russia. He was Artistic Director of the State Symphony Orchestra of the Tatar SSR until 1979.

(BORN 1949), RUSSIA Honoured Artist of Russia, People’s Artist of Tatarstan. The Order of Kurmet (Kazakhstan) Award. He was Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra of the Tatar SSR from 1979 to 1985, Chief Conductor of the Mussa Jalil Tatar Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre from September, 2003.

(1938 - 1993) Soviet and British ballet artist, choreographer, conductor. Rudolf Nureyev conducted the TNSO on May 24th, 1992, performing music to Romeo and Juliette ballet by Sergei Prokofiev.

Rustem Abyazov is one of the most significant figures of musical culture not only in the Republic of Tatarstan, but also in Russia as a whole.

Great Britain Samuel Burstyn (33 years old, great Britain) studied violin, saxophone, piano and singing since childhood. At the age of 16, having discovered the viola, he was accepted into the national youth orchestra. In 1999, he entered the Trinity Laban Conservatory of music and dance, where he studied viola with Richard Crabtree and conducting with Peter stark. After working with Southbank Sinfonia, he joined the London Philharmonic orchestra in 2005 as the first viola of the orchestra. As a conductor, Samuel Bertin made his debut in 2006 with The St Paul's Sinfonia orchestra. In 2010, he...

(1946-2006) conductor of the Leningrad Academic Maliy Opera and Ballet Theatre (1975 – 1980), the State Symphony Orchestra of the Tatar SSR (1980 – 1989). He was conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg from 1991. From 2001 to 2004 he was Principal Conductor of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. Between 1980 – 1989 he chief-conducted the State Symphony Orchestra of the Tatar SSR.

RUSSIA People’s artist of Russia, the knight of Honor, the laureate of International contest among celloists “Prague Spring” (IIIrd prize and bronze medal, 1980), since 2006 he is an art director of created by his lead St.Petersburg’s Music house. Since 2004 he went into conductor’s activity.He performs in Moscow, St.Petersburg, Novosibirsk and also abroad in Germany, Finland and Japan. The invited conductor from Mariinsky Theatre. The extensive solo and orchestral repertory includes the works of various epochs and styles.He has records on the radio and television. Annually he...

(BORN 1938) a modern conductor of the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra. Since 1978 has been Chief Conductor of the Solovyov-Sedoy orchesrta (former Radio and TV orchestra, now – Gubernatorial orchestra).

Russia Stanislav KOCHANOVSKY was born in St. Petersburg in 1981. He graduated with honors from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in three specialties: choral conducting in the class of T. Khitrova (2004), organ by N. Oksentyan (2004) and opera and symphonic conducting with A. Titov (2008).