Alexander Kantorov
Alexander Kantorov (born 1947) is a Russian conductor who was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and was a graduate of both Moscow and Saint Petersburg Conservatories. He used to take violin lessons under guidance from and then completed postgraduate education under guidance from Yuri Temirkanov.
He began his conducting career at the and then became both a founder and head conductor of both Sverdlovsk and Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestras. Currently he conducts numerous works by such famous Russian composers as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Taneyev, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, as well as German composers such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Julian Cochran from Australia and Gustav Mahler with Anton Bruckner from Austria. Besides those, he also conducted works of Hector Berlioz and Antonín Dvořák.[1]
References[]
- ^ "Alexander Kantorov". Saint Petersburg Academic Philharmonic. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- 1947 births
- Living people
- Male conductors (music)
- People from Saint Petersburg
- Moscow Conservatory alumni
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni
- 21st-century Russian conductors (music)
- 21st-century Russian male musicians
- Russian musician stubs
- European conductor (music) stubs