Vladimir Fedoseyev
Vladimir Ivanovich Fedoseyev (; born 5 August 1932, in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian conductor, accordionist, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1980). Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1989) and the Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (1970). Full Commander of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland". Artistic director and chief conductor of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra since 1974. Biography. In 1948–1952 he studied at the M. P. Mussorgsky Music College in Leningrad, bayan class, then graduated from the Gnessin State Musical College (1957), in bayan class of N. Chaikin and conducting with  N. Reznikov. After graduating from the institute, he entered the USSR Radio Russian Folk Instrument Orchestra as an accordion player, in 1959–1973 – artistic director and chief conductor of the orchestra. In 1972 Fedoseyev graduated Moscow Conservatory (postgraduate course under Prof. L.M. Ginsburg) From 1974 to 1999, he was artistic director and chief conductor of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, and from 1997 to 2004 principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony. Since 2006, he has been music director of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio. From 1997 to 2005 – Principal Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Since 1997  he has been a permanent guest conductor of the Zurich Opera House. Since 2000 he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 2017 – Musical Director and Principal Guest Conductor of Helikon-Opera in Moscow. In 2002 – 2003, the Swiss label Relief published a series "Anni in Concordia 1974–1999", primarily reissues of Melodiya recordings, in tribute to Fedoseyev's work with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra. This series featured (complete with Cyrillic librettos) Russian operas otherwise little known in the West. Since 2004 he has been teaching at the Gnessin Russian Academy at the Department of Opera and  Symphony Conducting. Professor. Opera productions. Directed the production of operas by Russian composers. Staged the operas "Ivan Susanin" by M.I. Glinka (1996), "The Demon" by A. Rubinstein (1999), "Attila" by G. Verdi (1998, together with director Erwin Piplitz), "The Queen of Spades" by P.I. Tchaikovsky and the ballet "Cinderella" by S. Prokofiev (2000), "Othello" by G. Verdi and "Khovanshchina" by M.P. Mussorgsky (2001), "Don Quichotte" by J. Massenet (2003), "Rusalka" A. Dvořák (2010) at the Zurich Opera House. In 2012, at the Salzburg Festival, he conducted the opera Cleopatra by J. Massenet. In 2016, he performed at La Scala in  new productions of the ballets The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty by P.I. Tchaikovsky, and also performed the Story of Doctor Johann Faust by A. G. Schnittke at the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein.