Nikolai Alekseev

Conductor from Russian Federation
1956, May 1st in Saint Petersburg, Russia -

Nikolai Alexeev is a Russian conductor, born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) on 1 May 1956. He studied at the Glinka Choir School and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1983 in choral and opera-symphonic conducting, in the class of Arvīds and Mariss Jansons, and trained as an assistant to Yuri Temirkanov at the Kirov (Mariinsky) Theatre. He won the Herbert von Karajan Conducting Competition in Berlin in 1982, followed by the Václav Talich competition in Prague and the Min-On competition in Tokyo in 1985. He was chief conductor of the Ulyanovsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (1985-2001) and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra (1994-1998), and principal guest conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre (2002-2003). From 2001 to 2010 he was music director of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, for which he received the Estonian Order of the White Star (2006) and the Estonian state culture prize (2010). He has conducted the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra since 2000, later becoming chief conductor of its Academic Symphony Orchestra and, in 2024, chief conductor of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia. From 2018 to 2024 he was also principal conductor of the Ulsan Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea. He has guest-conducted the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, among others. He was named People's Artist of Russia in 2007. Source: Rondo DB

Usual Name Nikolai Alekseev
Alternative Spellings Nikolay Alexeev, Nikolai Alexeev, Nikolai Aleksejev
Ensembles Estonian National Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2010
Links Bolshoi Russia ,  Estonian National Opera ,  Opera Base ,  Wikipedia (Russian) ,  Saint Petersburg Philharmonia ,  Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

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