Vladimir ZIVA

He graduated with honors from two oldest conservatories of the country: Leningrad Conservatory (professor E.Kudryavtsev's class) and Moscow Conservatory (professor D.Kitaenko's class).
In 1984-87 Vladimir Ziva worked as assistant-conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. From 1986 to 1989 he was a professor at the orchestra department (faculty) of the Moscow Conservatory. From June 1988 he leads the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Nizhny Novogorod Philharmonic. At Svatoslav Rikhter's invitation he arranged some opera and music stage plays at the Festival "December Nights" (Britten's "Albert Herring" and "The Turn of the Screw", Rimsky Korsakov's "Snow-Maiden", Bach's "The Contest Between Phoebus and Pan"), in cooperation with B.Pokrovsky he staged A.Kholminov's opera "Brothers Karamazov" at the Moscow Chamber Music Theater, Britten's "Song, on the water" ("Wild with passion") and L.Desyatnikov's "Poor Liza" at Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic, Prokofiev's "Cinderella" at Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theater, M.Landovsky's opera "Madman", Bordin's opera "Prince Igor" at the Saint-Petersburg Opera and Ballet Theater named after Musorgsky.
With the Moscow Conservatory Orchestra he participated in the joint Soviet-French stage of Debussy's opera "Pelleas et Melisande", in the Festival of Soviet music in the USA, he often performed with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chamber Theater abroad, as well as participated in concerts at the Contemporary Music Festivals "Moscow Autumn", "Leningrad Spring".
He toured in the USA, Cuba, Germany, Bulgaria, France, Spain, Greece.