The Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of St Petersburg, Alexander Dmitriev, was born in a family of native residents of St Petersburg, where his father had worked in the E.Mravinsky’s orchestra for more than 30 years. He graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory as a choral conductor (Class of E.Kudryavtseva) and as a theorist (class of Y.Tyulin), after which the musician continued his studies in graduate school (class of N.Rabinovich in symphonic conducting). For 10 years (1961-1971), he led the Symphony Orchestra of the Karelian Radio and Television. During this period, he won the II All-Union Conductors' Competition (1966), completed an internship at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts under the guidance of H.Swarovsky and K.Österreiche
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