Maestro Gennady Rozhdestvensky has been the head of conducting studies
in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory for 40 years and his students have
found positions as principal conductors worldwide.
Maestro Gennady Rozhdestvensky is the head of conducting studies in Tchaikovsky
Conservatory of Moscow since 40 years and his students had been
positioned as principal conductors worldwide. From 1951 to 1961
he served as staff
conductor and from 1964 to 1970 as Principal Conductor at the
Bolshoi Theatre, where he gave the Russian premieres of Britten's
A Midsummer Night's Dream
and Khachaturian's Spartacus. He has held principal conductorships
also at the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra,
the USSR
Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra, and the Moscow Chamber
Opera of which he was a founder. During the 2000 /2001 season
Gennady Rozhdestvensky was Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Theatre
(both the ballet
and opera
companies), the first such appointment in the Theatre's history.
In April 2004 he conducted Der fliegende Hollaender, his first
Wagner opera, at
the Teatro alla Scala in Milan . Additionally, he served as a
guest conductor in major orchestras across the world and he recorded
512 CDs with the majors
recording labels.
