CHINA Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Kuzbass Symphony Orchestra (Kemerovo, Russia), the I International Sergei Prokofiev Conducting Competition 3rd Prize (1993), the XIII International Nicolay MalkoYoung Conductors Competition winner (2001), Gramophone Award in classical music.

Honored artist of the Republic of Tatarstan (2015). Winner of international competitions and festivals. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory with a degree in Opera and Symphony conducting (class of Prof. L. V. Nikolayev), trained with the People's artist of Russia, Tatarstan and Kazakhstan, Prof. F. Mansurov, participated in master classes of James Judd (USA), trained at the Vienna Opera with Wolfgang Scheidt (2014). Finalist Of the international conductor competition in Rio de Janeiro (2014). He has collaborated with leading orchestras and music theaters in Russia, Poland, France, Spain,...

Soviet and Russian conductor, professor. She was the first woman conductor in the USSR. People’s Artist of the USSR (1977). People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1960). People’s Artist of the Udmurt ASSR (1964). People’s Artist of the North Ossetia – Alania (1996).

(1925 - 1999) conductor, professor. Honoured Artist of Byelorussia (1996), Honoured Man of Arts of the Russian Federation (1993). In different periods he was Principal Conductor of the Byelorussian State Academic Symphony Orchestra (1962 - 1968), the State Wind Orchestra of Russia (1972 -1974), the Mikhailovsky Theatre, etc.

(BORN 1946) Russian conductor. Honoured Artist of Russia. Conductor of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

(BORN 1946) Russian conductor. People’s Artist of Russia. In 2001, he was awarded the Order of Friendship. Since 2009 he has chief-conducted the Osipov National Russian Academic Folk Instruments Orchestra.

RUSSIA Vladimir Fedoseyev, artistic director and chief conductor of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, National artist of the USSR.

(BORN 1947) Soviet and Russian conductor. The Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (1984). Since 2000 he has been Principal Conductor of the State Philharmonic of the Altai Region.

(BORN 1957) a Russian conductor. State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995, as one of the Alfred Schnittke Festival participant). He chief-conducted the Mikhailovsky Theatre, Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (1989 – 2000), the Moscow Symphony Orchestra (2000 – 2009), the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra (2006 – 2010). Vladimir Ziva has been Chief Conductor of the Krasnodar State Musical Theatre since 2004.

(BORN 1941) Soviet and Russian conductor, professor. People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1976). People’s Artist of the USSR (1981). The Order of Honour (Russia, 2001), Order for Merit to the Fatherland, IV class (2011), etc. Simonov has been Chief Conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra since 1998.