Conductor
People's Artist of the Russian Federation 
Winner of the International 
Herbert von Karajan 
Foundation competition
Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Estonia
Nikolai ALEXEEV

People's Artist of the Russian Federation NIKOLAI ALEXEEV graduated from Glinka Choir College and the Leningrad State Conservatory, where he majored in choir conducting in the class of Avenir Mikhailov, and opera-symphony conducting in the class of Mariss Jansons. Nikolai Alexeev's schedule is extremely intense. The conductor led the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra and for 9 seasons (2001-2010) was the principal guest conductor of the oldest orchestra in the Baltic, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. He performed with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Philharmonic, Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Rotterdam, Dresden, Stuttgart and Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestras, Berlin and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras, Liverpool Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic. The maestro's concert activity is also connected with Europe (Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, Belgium, Netherlands), Latin America, Japan and USA.

From 2000 Nikolai Alexeev has been the conductor of the St.Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. He performs Viennese classics as well as Tchaikovsky, Mahler and Shostakovich. With Nikolai Alexeev the Philharmonic Orchestra performed all Brahms' symphonies, all Rachmaninov's piano concertos, a number of works by Prokofiev and «Gurrelieder» by Schцnberg. Working with St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, he finds his innate conductor’s interest towards the concert performances of operas and ballets. They include, above all, compositions of Stravinsky, which constitute one of the main repertoire directions of Alexeev.

The maestro regularly gives premieres of works by modern composers.. In Philharmonic Hall, he conducted the first performance of the Thirteenth Symphony by Slonimsky, First and Fifth Dante-Symphonies by Tischenko, Concerto Cantabile by Shchedrin (St.-Petersburg premiere), «Figure of Speech» by Korolev, «The Zar's Chants» by Korchmar and other works. In the 2011-2012 season the conductor has included in his extensive program music of different epochs and styles – works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Rossini, Brahms, Elgar, Prokofiev, Petrov, Tishchenko. In addition, the conductor will present the world premiere of the “Knight Suite” by Korolev, in tandem with Sergei Krylov will be performed the Fifth Violin Concerto by Paganini (St.Petersburg premiere), and together with Alexei Lyubimov – Piano Concerto by Schönberg.