Alexis Soriano

Alexis Soriano is among the most outstanding Spanish conductors of his generation. A pupil of Ilya Musin in St Petersburg, he launched his career with the Hermitage Orchestra, which he conducted regularly from 1998 to 2008, and with the St Petersburg Symphony, starting in 2001. He took part in the film The Master and His Pupil at the request of maestro Gergiev, and later made his Mariinsky Theatre debut in 2007. He was also Principal Conductor of the INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra in Ukraine from 2010 to 2012, while since 2012 he has been Artistic Director of the New York Opera Society. As a symphony music conductor he has led such world-renowned orchestras as the Mariinsky Orchestra, the St Petersburg Symphony, the Prague Symphony, the Slovakian Philharmonic, the Lithuanian National Symphon