Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He was director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution. He continued as head of the Conservatory until 1930, though he had left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not return. The best-known student under his tenure during the early Soviet years was Dmitri Shostakovich.
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Mravinsky was a Soviet and Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue; he was a professor at Leningrad State Conservatory.
Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky, CBE was a Soviet and Russian conductor, pianist, composer and pedagogue.
Alexander Vassilievich Gauk was a Soviet conductor and composer.
Alexander Nikolayevich Lazarev is a Russian conductor. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and later at the Moscow Conservatory with Leo Ginzburg. In 1971, he was the first prize winner in a national conducting competition in the USSR. In 1972, he won a first prize and gold medal in the Karajan Conducting Competition in West Berlin.
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, is an orchestral suite in three movements completed in October 1940 by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. It is his final major composition, and his only piece written in its entirety while living in the United States.
Sergei Prokofiev composed and compiled his Waltz Suite, Op. 110, during the Soviet Union's post-Great Patriotic War period of 1946–1947.
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the most recognized Russian orchestras with 87 years of history. The collective of 101 musicians is based in Sverdlovsk Philharmonic,Yekaterinburg along with the Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir and the Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra. UPO was founded in 1936 by Konstantin Saradzhev's student, Mark Paverman on the basis of the Orchestra of the Sverdlovsk Radio Committee. It is the winner of the national Music Critics Association Prize (2020), and the 440Hz Big Orchestral Award (2022).
Alexander Prior is a British composer and conductor who studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was Chief Conductor of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra from 2017 to 2022, appointed at the age of 23.
The International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians is the junior section of the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition, and it is the largest competition for junior performers up to 17 years of age. The competition was established in 1992 on the initiative of the Association of Tchaikovsky Competition Stars and is held in the sections of piano, violin, and cello.
Andrei Nikolaevich Chistyakov or Andrey Chistiakov was a Russian conductor and National Artist of Russia.
Sergei Stadler is a Russian violinist and conductor. He is currently Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra.
Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami is a Persian composer of contemporary classical music.
Andres Mustonen is an Estonian conductor and violinist.
Vladimir Abramovich Altschuler, also Altshuler, is a Russian chief-conductor and artistic director of Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra and Honoured Artist of Russia.
Mikhail Tatarnikov is a Russian conductor who is known for his production of The Enchantress at the Theater an der Wien as well as The Gambler at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. He was principal conductor and music director of the Mikhailovsky Theatre in 2012–2018. Represented by TACT Artists Management.
Alexander Polishchuk is a Russian conductor and Meritorious Artist.
Alexander Grigoryevitch Fridlender was a Soviet composer, pianist and conductor, Professor at the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire.
Alexander Sladkovsky is a Russian conductor. He is the Chief conductor and Artistic director of the Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, People's Artist of Russia, People's Artist of Tatarstan, winner of the III International Prokofiev Competition (1999).
Nadezda Tokareva is a Russian-Slovenian classical violinist and teacher, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
