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Nicoleta Ardelean
Antonia Cifrone**
Cellia Costea
Elena Kelessidi**
Irini Kyriakidou
Maria Laura Martorana
Irina Samoylova*
Petra Maria Schnitzer**
Anna Shafajinskaia**
Anne Williams-King
Elena Zelenskaya*


Fredrika Brillembourg**
Irini Karaianni**
Larisa Kostyuk
Alexandra Rivas
Helena Zubanovich


Alexandra Durseneva*


Fernando del Valle**
Howard Haskin
Michael Heim
Vassilis Kavayas**
Antonis Koroneos**
Philip Sheffield
Vadim Zaplechny*
Mario Zeffiri


Marcin Bronikowski**
Yasuo Horiuchi
George Mosley**
Dimitri Platanias


Johannes von Duisburg**
Matteo De Monti**


Askar Abdrazakov**
Gary Jankowski**
Alexander Kisselev
Arutjun Kotchinian**
Christophoros Stamboglis
Mikhail Svetlov**


Manlio Benzi**
Giampaolo Bisanti
Boris Brott
Gianluca Martinenghi
Niels Muus**
Thomas Sanderling
Sergio La Stella (IT)


Dieter Kaegi



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He grew up in St Petersburg, where his father, the celebrated conductor Kurt Sanderling, was permanent conductor of the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. He graduated from the Music School of the Leningrad Conservatory and went on to study conducting at the Hochschule für Musik in East Berlin, becoming Music Director of the Halle Opera at 24 years old. By his mid-twenties he was conducting in all East Germany's principal orchestras and opera houses, including the Dresden Staatskapelle and the Leipzig Gewandhaus and won the Berlin Critic's Prize for his opera performances at the Komische Oper Berlin. His CD of Shostakovich's Michelangelo Suite (premiere recording) directly lead to his becoming assistant to both Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein. In the early 1980s he became permanent guest conductor of the Deutsche Staatsoper Unter Den Linden, which led to his successful debut at the Wiener Staatsoper, conducting Die Zauberflöte. Immediately afterwards the Wiener Staatsoper invited him to conduct Le Nozze di Figaro - the first performance after the death of the great Karl Böhm. He has won many prizes and a competition and is particularly renowned for the German, Russian and French orchestral repertory.
Among the orchestras he has conducted are:

BBC Scottish; Baltimore Symphony; Bayerische Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra; Bergen Philharmonic; Bournemouth Symphony; Czech Philharmonic; Dallas Symphony; Deutsches Symphonie Orchester; Dresden Staatskapelle; Dresden Philharmonic; Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig; Halle Orchestra UK; Helsinki Philharmonic; Konzerthausorchester Berlin; London Philharmonic; Montreal Symphony; NDR Hamburg Symphony Orchestra; Oslo Philharmonic; Philharmonia Orchestra; Pittsburg Symphony; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Royal Philharmonic; Radio Philharmonic Hilversum; Royal Stockholm; St Petersburg Philharmonic; Tchaikowsky Radio Symphony, Moscow; Vancouver Symphony; WDR Symphony Cologne. He is also a regular guest conductor of radio orchestras in Germany. He is principal guest conductor of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia and the Osaka Symphony awarded him the title of Music Director Laureate for his Lifetime. With this Orchestra he won the Grand Prix of the Osaka Critics twice in three years.
Shostakovich Premieres he has conducted:

He has enjoyed a close relationship with Shostakovich and his family for many years and still works in close collaboration with Irina Shostakovich. He originally met Dmitri Shostakovich whilst making his Moscow debut, conducting the State Orchestra of Russia, on the invitation of Evgeny Svetlanov, as a result of winning a conducting competition in East Germany. Greatly impressed, Shostakovich entrusted him with the translation into German of the texts of the 13th and 14th Symphonies and he conducted the German premieres of both works. He also conducted the world premiere recording of the Michelangelo Suite followed by a concert of the premiere of two British song cycles for which he was responsible for setting the original English text: Six Romances on Verses of British Poets and Anglo-American folk Songs, with the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio in Munich, both recorded live and to be released on the Orfeo Label in 2012. At the instigation of Irina Shostakovich he made an Italian original version of the Michelangelo Suite, which is dedicated to her.
Shostakovich Premiers he has recorded:

(Deutsche Grammophon)
Two CD recordings for Deutsche Grammophon with Shostakovich Premieres, which became The Editor's Choice in the September 2006 issue of the Gramophone in London
Original Suite from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Eight Waltzes
(Orchestration Boris Tishchenko)
Verses of Captain Lebyadkin Op. 146
Satires {Pictures of the Past) Op. 100
Five Romances on Words from Krokodil Magazine Op. 121
(Orchestration Leonid Dessyatnikov)
Preface to the Complete Edition of My Works, Op. 123
Sergei Leiferkus and the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Opera Houses where he has conducted include:

Wiener Staatsoper; Deutsche Oper Unter den Linden; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Bayerische Staatsoper; Hamburgische Staatsoper; Komische Oper Berlin; Bolshoi Theater; Mariinsky Theater; Det Kongelige Teater Denmark; Finnish National Opera; Teatro La Fenice di Venezia; Opéra de Nice.
Operas include:

Beethoven: FIDELIO
Dvorak: RUSALKA
Handel: DEIDAMIA
Mozart: COSI FAN TUTTE
Mozart: DON GIOVANNI
Mozart: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Mozart: DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
Puccini: LA BOHEME
Shostakovitch: LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK
Smetana: THE BARTERED BRIDE
Richard Strauss: DER ROSENKAVALIER
Tchaikovsky: PIQUE DAME
Verdi: AIDA
Verdi: DON CARLO
Verdi: OTELLO
Wagner: TANNHÄUSER
Wagner: LOGENGRIN
Weber: DER FREISCHÜTZ
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Opera Halle - new production Oper Franfurt - staging Christoph von Dohnany Gala in Moscow - Concert performance London Weekend Television
Kansai Opera Osaka - new production
Komische Oper Berlin - new production (Berlin Critics' Award for Conducting)
Kansai Opera Osaka - new production
Finnish National Opera - new production; Opera Graz - new production (Axel Corti); Royal Danish Opera; Kansai Opera - new production.
Opéra de Nice; Deutsche Oper Berlin (staging by Götz Friedrich); Oper der Stadt Bonn; Wiener Staaatsoper; Berlin Staatsoper; Opera Halle - new production; Kansai Opera Osaka - new production.
Teatro La Fenice di Venezia - new production (Jean-Pierre Ponnelle); Wiener Staatoper (debut); Hamburgische Staatsoper; Bayerische Staatsoper; Berlin Staatsoper; Halle Opera - new production; Kansai Opera Osaka - new production; Bolshoi Theatre - revival of Graham Vick production (subsequent revivals).
Opera Forum Holland - new production
Bolshoi Theatre - many revivals; Göteborg Opera
Opera Halle - new production
Opera Halle - new production
Opera Halle - new production
Opera Halle
Opera Halle - new production
Opera Halle - new production
Wiener Staatsoper
Mariinsky Opera
Opera Halle - new production
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Recordings:

He has recorded for many companies including: Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical International, Naxos, BIS, Chandos; Audite, Berlin Classics.

Winning many prizes - amongst them are:

Mahler SYMPHONY NO. 6 - St Petersburg Philharmonic (Cannes Classical Award)

COMPLETE BRAHMS SYMPHONIES - Philharmonia Orchestra London (Salzburg Prize)

KLETZKI'S PIANO CONCERTO IN D MINOR, OP. 22 with Joseph Banowetz, (Grammy Nomination)

MAGNARD COMPLETE SYMPHONIES (Cannes Classical Award)

TANEYEV COMPLETE WORKS FOR ORCHESTRA (several awards)
Recently:

The Russian premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish) at the Grand Festival of the Russian National Orchestra in Moscow on 11th September 2011.
Future plans include:

Concert appearances in Berlin and Beijing and with the Stuttgart Symphony, the Sydney Symphony, the St Petersburg Philharmonic and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Moscow.

New production of Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk - Göteborg Opera to be directed by Graham Vick.

World premiere of Mieczislaw Weinberg's last opera The Idiot, based on the novel by Dostoevsky and dedicated to Shostakovich~Nationaltheater Mannheim.

New production of Le Nozze Di Figaro - National Centre of Performing Arts in Beijing.
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