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Vladimir Ziva

Vladimir Ziva is an Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation, laureate of the State Prize of Russia. Artistic director and chief conductor of the Krasnodar Musical Theater (since 2002) and the Jutland Symphony Orchestra (Denmark, since 2006).

Vladimir Ziva was born in 1957. Graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory (class of Prof. E. Kudryavtseva) and the Moscow Conservatory (class of Prof. D. Kitaenko). In 1984-1987 he worked as an assistant to the chief conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. In 1986-1989 he taught conducting at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1988 to 2000, V. Ziva headed the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Nizhny Novgorod State Philharmonic.

Musical theater occupies an important place in the work of a conductor. V. Ziva’s repertoire includes over 20 performances. At the invitation of Svyatoslav Richter, in collaboration with director B. Pokrovsky, Vladimir Ziva staged four opera productions at the December Evenings art festivals. At the Moscow Academic Chamber Musical Theatre, under B. Pokrovsky, he conducted six operas, staged A. Schnittke’s opera Life with an Idiot, which was shown in Moscow and also staged in theaters in Vienna and Turin. In 1998 he was musical director and conductor of Massenet’s opera “Tais” at the Moscow Musical Theatre. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko (director B. Pokrovsky, artist V. Leventhal).

In 1990-1992 he was the chief conductor of the St. Petersburg Opera and Ballet Theatre. Mussorgsky, where, in addition to conducting performances of the current repertoire, he staged the opera Prince Igor. In the Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theater he staged S. Prokofiev’s ballet Cinderella. At the Krasnodar Musical Theater he was the conductor-producer of the operas Carmen, Iolanta, La Traviata, Rural Honor, Pagliacci, Aleko and others. The last premiere took place in September 2010: the conductor staged P.I. Tchaikovsky’s opera The Queen of Spades.

V. Ziva conducted many Russian and foreign orchestras. For 25 years of active creative work, he gave over a thousand concerts in Russia and abroad (he toured in more than 20 countries), in which more than 400 soloists took part. V. Ziva’s repertoire includes over 800 symphonic works from different eras. Every year the musician presents about 40 symphonic programs.

From 1997 to 2010 Vladimir Ziva was Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.

Vladimir Ziva has made recordings on three records and 30 CDs. In 2009, Vista Vera released a unique four-CD set called “Touch”, which included the best recordings of the musician. This is a collector’s edition: each of the thousand copies has an individual number and is personally signed by the conductor. The disc includes recordings of Russian and foreign classics performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra led by Vladimir Ziva. In October 2010, a CD with French music, recorded by V. Ziva and the Jutland Symphony Orchestra, released by Danacord, was recognized by Danish Radio as “Record of the Year”.

Source: Moscow Philharmonic website