ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR

CURRENT MUSIC DIRECTOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Capital Symphony Orchestra, New York City
2018 - present
Music Director and Principal Conductor

Capital Symphony Orchestra, Moscow
2017 - present
Music Director and Principal Conductor

Usbekistan Soloists' Chamber Orchestra
2016 - present
Associate Conductor

Trinity-Sergius Lavra Moscow Podvorye Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
2003 - present
Music Director and Principal Conductor

Glinka Smolensk Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra 2000 - 2004
Associate Conductor

Military Department Symphony Orchestra, Russian Federation
1999 - 2003
Assistant Conductor

Tchaikovsky Bolshoy Symphony Orchestra
2000-2001
Cover Conductor

Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory Opera Theatre
1996 - 2000
Associate Conductor

Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory Students' Chamber Orchestra
1993-2000
Music Director and Principal Conductor

Musical Academic College Students' Chamber Orchestra at Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory
1990 - 1993
Music Director and Principal Conductor

St.-Petersburg Military Institute Orchestra
1988 - 1990
Cover Conductor

GUEST CONDUCTING AND MASTERCLASSES

West Virginia State Philharmonic Orchestra
Guest Conductor
2022 - 2023

Southeast Kansas Symphony at Pittsburg State University, KS
Guest Conductor
2021 - 2022

Masterclass with Southeast Kansas Symphony for orchestral conductors, students at Pittsburg State University, KS
Teaching Professor
Guest Conductor
2021

Russian National Orchestra, Moscow
Guest Conductor
2020 - 2021

New York City Masterclass with Capital Symphony Orchestra for orchestral conductors and Concert "Breaking Boundaries" at St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church
Music Director
Principal Conductor
Teaching Professor
October 27-30, 2019

Chamber Orchestra of New Music (created by Dr. Nicholas Reeves for performing students' works "Music of Cinema") at Adelphi University, NY
Guest Conductor
October 19, 2018

Pavel Slobodkin Center Symphony Orchestra, Moscow
Guest Conductor
2017 - 2018

National Orchestra of Uzbekistan
Guest Conductor
2016 - 2017

Masterclass at Sydney Conservatorium of Music for orchestral conductors and students
2016

Guest Conductor of more than 20 academic and university orchestras
2000- 2016

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

Degrees
Master of Arts
Conductor of Symphony Orchestra
Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory – Russia
2000

Master of Arts
Conductor of Choir
Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory – Russia
1998

Bachelor of the Arts
Conductor
Academic Music College at Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory – Russia
1993

Learned Theory of Music and Composition
Tchaikovsky Ekaterinburg Music College – Russia
1986 - 1988

Awards
Russian State St. Sergius Order of the Third Degree
April 2020

Recording Academy Grammy Nominee
February 2020

ADDITIONAL RELATED INFORMATION

Honors
Member – International Union of Musicians, Russia
2017 – 2021

Founder - Music of the Continents, USA

Founder - Capital Symphony Orchestra, Russia and USA

Founder - Trinity-Sergius Lavra Moscow Representation Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

PARTIAL REPERTOIRE LIST

Leroy Anderson
 A Christmas Festival
 Bugler’s Holiday
 Sleigh Ride
 The Typewriter

Arban, Jean-Baptiste
 Variations on “The Carnival of Venice”

Barber, Samuel
 Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

Bach, Johann Sebastian
 Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BMV 1043

Bartok, Bela
 Dances of Transylvania

Beethoven, Ludwig van
 Concerto No. 3 for Piano in C minor, Op. 37
 Concerto for Violin in D Major, Op. 61
 Overture Coriolanus
 Overture Egmont
 Overture Fidelio
 Symphony No. 1 in C Major Op. 21
 Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major Op. 55
 Symphony No. 5 in C minor Op. 67
 Symphony No. 7 in A Major Op. 92
 Turkish March Op. 113

Berlioz, Hector
 Hungarian March from “The Damnation of Faust”

Bernstein, Elmer
 The Magnificent Seven Suite

Bernstein, Leonard
 Overture from Candide
 Slava! (A Political Overture)
 Selections from West Side Story (arr. Mason)

Bilik, Jerry
 American Civil War Fantasy

Bizet, Georges
 Carmen Overture

Brahms, Johannes
 Academic Festival Overture
 Ein Deutches Requiem (Mvt. 1)
 Hungarian Dance No. 1
 Hungarian Dance No. 5
 Hungarian Dance No. 6
 Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op. 68
 Symphony No. 4 in E minor Op. 98
 Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn

Bruch, Max
 Concerto No. 1 in G minor for Violin
 Concerto for Clarinet and Viola in E minor, Op. 88

Bukvich, Daniel
 Symphony No. 1 “In Memorium – Dresden, 1941”

Chaminade, Cecile
 Concertino for Flute in D Major

Copland, Aaron
 El Salon Mexico
 Fanfare for the Common Man
 Lincoln Portrait
 Old American Songs (First Set)
 Old American Songs (Second Set)
 Quiet City

David, Ferdinand
 Concertino No. 4 for Trombone

Dvorak, Antonin
 Slavonic Dance No. 5

Elgar, Edward
 Enigma Variations (Selected movements)
 Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
 Serenade for String Orchestra

Falla, Manuel de
 Ritual Fire Dance

Fucik, Julius
 Einzug der gladiatoren

Gershwin, George
 An American in Paris
 Rhapsody in Blue

Gliere, Reinhold
 Russian Sailors Dance from “The Red Poppy”

Glinka, Mikhail
 Overture Russlan and Ludmilla

Graham, Peter
 Northern Landscapes

Grainger, Percy
 Irish Tune from County Derry
 Molly on the Shore
 Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonnie Doon

Grieg, Edvard
 Concerto in A minor for Piano
 Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op. 46
 Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 Op. 55
 Holberg Suite

Griffes, Charles
 Poem

Handel, Georg Freiderich
 The Messiah (selected movements)

Handy, William C. (Lewis)
 St. Louis Blues

Haydn, Franz Joseph
 Concerto for Trumpet in Eb Major, Hob.Vllb: 1
 Concerto for Violoncello in D Major, Hob. Vllb: 2
 Symphony No. 45 in F# minor (“Farewell”)
 Symphony No. 94 in G Major (“Surprise”)
 Symphony No. 104 in D Major (“London”)

Herbert, Victor
 March from “Babes in Toyland”
 Serenade for String Orchestra

Holst, Gustav
 The Planets
 First Suite in Eb for Military Band
 In the Bleak Midwinter
 Second Suite in F for Military Band

Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail
 Procession of the Sardar from Caucasian Sketches

Ives, Charles
 The Unanswered Question
 Variations on “America”

Jackfert, Matthew
 A Black Bear Awakens in Winter (world premiere at Kennedy Center 2/10/2019)
 The Hopeless Romantic (world premiere 12/6/2015)
 I Saw Three Ships
 We Three Kings
 White Christmas

Kabalevsky, Dmitri
 Overture Colas Bruegnon

Kalinnikov, Vasily
 Serenade for String Orchestra
 Symphony No. 1 in G minor

Katchiturian, Aram
 Sabre Dance from Gayane Suite No. 3

Kovacs, Bela
 Sholem-alekhem for Clarinet

Louden, Robert, arr.
 Armed Forces Salute

Mendelshhon, Felix Bartholdy
 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor Op. 64
 Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave)
 Symphony No. 4 in A Major “Italian” Op. 90
 War March of the Priests from Athalie

Menken, Alan
 Little Shop of Horrors

Morricone, Enrico
 Gabriel’s Oboe

Mozart, W.A.
 Eine kleine nachtmusik
 Overture Die entführung aus dem serail
 Overture Die zauberflöte
 Overture Impresario
 Overture La finta giardiniera
 Overture Le nozzi di Figaro
 Overture Lucio Silla
 Requiem (Selected movements)
 Symphony No. 29 in A Major
 Symphony No. 36 in C Major
 Turkish March from Piano Sonata in A Major
 Voi che sapete from “Le nozze di Figaro”

Mussorgsky, Modeste
 Night on Bare Mountain
 Pictures at an Exhibition

Prokofiev, Sergei
 Athletic Festival March, Op. 99
 Peter and the Wolf
 Montagues and Capulets from “Romeo and Juliet”

Puccini, Giacomo
 Nessun Dorma from “Turandot”

Rachmaninoff, Sergei
 Concerto for Piano No. 2

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai
 Concerto for Trombone and Military Band in Bb Major
 Dance of the Shomorokhi (Buffoons) from “The Snow Maiden”
 Procession of the Nobles from “Mlada”

Rossini, Gioacchino
 Overture Guillaume Tell
 Overture Il signor Bruschino
 Overture L’Italiana in Algeri

Saint-Saens, Camille
 Danse Bacchanale from “Samson et Delilah”
 Danse Macabre Op. 40
 Havannaise

Schubert, Franz
 Overture in D in Italian Style
 Overture Rosamunde
 Marche militaire, D. 733
 Symphony No. 3 in D Major
 Symphony No. 5 in Bb Major
 Symphony No. 8 in B minor

Shaiman, Marc
 Hairspray

Shostakovich, Dmitri
 Festive Overture
 Fire of Eternal Glory
 Galop from “Moscow Cheremushky”
 Symphony No. 5
 Symphony No. 9
 Waltz No. 2 from the Second Jazz Suite
 Piano Concerto No. 2

Sibelius, Jean
 Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

Smetana, Bedrich
 Ma Vlast (2. Die Moldau)

Stanbery, Paul
 The Golden Door (world premiere at Carnegie Hall to be performed 6/21/2022)

Still, William Grant
 Symphony No. 1 (Afro-American)

Strauss, Johann, Jr.
 On der schonen blaeun Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube)
 Overture Die Fledermaus
 Pizzicato Polka
 Tritsch-Tratsch Polka Op. 21

Strauss, Johann, Sr.
 Radetzky March

Strauss, Richard
 Also Sprach Zarathustra
 Serenade Op. 7

Sullivan, Arthur
 The Sorcerer

Suppe, Franz von
 Overture Leichte Kavallerie
 Overture Poet and Peasant

Schwendinger, Laura
 Waking Dream (for solo flute and orchestra)

Steffe, William (Wilhousky)
 Battle Hymn of the Republic

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr
 Andante Cantabile from Op. 11
 Marche Slave
 Nutcracker Ballet Op. 70
 Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a
 Nutcracker Suite Op. 71b
 Sleeping Beauty (Selected movements)
 Overture 1812 (Overture solennelle)
 Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major
 Swan Lake Suite Op. 20
 Symphony No. 4 in F minor
 Symphony No. 5 in e minor

Tchesnikoff, Pavel
 Salvation is Created

Vaughn Williams, Ralph
 Concerto for Tuba in F minor
 English Folk Song Suite
 Fantasia on “Greensleeves”
 The Lark Ascending

Verdi, Giuseppe
 Coro di zongari from Il Trovatore
 Preludio, Act I Un ballo in maschera
 Overture La forza del destino
 Overture Nabucco
 Va pensiero from “Nabucco”

Vivaldo, Antonio
 Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, RV 514

Wagner, Richard
 Die Meistersinger Prelude
 Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral from “Lohengrin”
 Overture Die fliegende Holander
 Overture Tannhauser

Walker, George Theopholis
 Lyric for String Orchestra

Walton, William
 Crown Imperial (Coronation March)

Ward, Samuel Augustus /C. Dragon
 America, the Beautiful

Weber, Carl Maria
 Concertino for Clarinet in Eb Major
 Overture Oberon

Wendel, Robert
 A Stephen Foster Overture

Wilhousky, Peter, arr.
 Battle Hyman of the Republic