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Andrey Lebedev

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Conductor of the New Opera Theater
Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music.

  • Winner of the Golden Mask National Theater Award in the nomination "Opera. Conductor's work" ("Romeo and Juliet" by Ch. Gounod, 2016)

Music education

Graduated from the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory (classes of Prof. E.P. Kudryavtseva and R.E. Martynov).

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Creative Biography

From 2000 to 2002. - Conductor of the A.S. Pushkin Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theater and guest conductor of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2002-2004 - conductor of the M.I. Glinka Chelyabinsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.

Since 2004 - conductor, and in 2012-2014 - artistic director and chief conductor of the Krasnodar musical theater "Creative Association "Premiere" named after L.G. Gatov".

Since 2006 he has been a guest conductor at the New Opera Theater. The maestro has conducted productions of G. Verdi's Rigoletto, Tchaikovsky's Iolanta (concert performance) and OregaMania.

From 2007 to 2013. - Chief Conductor of the Sochi Symphony Orchestra.

Since 2013. - Conductor of the New Opera Theater. Conducted a concert version of G. Donizetti's opera Maria Stuart as part of the 2014 Epiphany Festival. Conducted a concert version of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin at the Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow International House of Music (2015, with Metropolitan Opera soloist Rodion Pogosov in the title role). There in January 2016 he conducted a program of two Requiems by W.A. Mozart and E. Lloyd Webber. In 2017 he performed a concert program dedicated to the 135th anniversary of Stravinsky's birth: the cantata Babylon, the oratorio The Lament of the Prophet Jeremiah (the first performance in Russia) and the requiem hymns.

In 2013. Andrey Lebedev took part in the theater's tour to Australia, presenting the OregaMania program in seven cities of the country. In 2016 he conducted the opera La Bohème by G. Puccini on the tour of the theater in Ireland (Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin). In the same year he participated in the theater's tour in Austria (Brucknerhaus Concert Hall, Linz), conducting the opera Eugene Onegin and a gala concert of works by Russian composers.

In December 2016, the Vasily Ladiuk Opera Live Music Festival closed under the baton of Andrey Lebedev. In the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. The Grand Symphony Orchestra performed a concert version of Ch. Gounod's opera Faust with the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. The main roles were performed by Ildar Abdrazakov, Irina Lungu, Sergey Romanovsky and Vasily Ladiuk.

Andrey Lebedev - member of the jury of the Russian National Theater Award "Golden Mask" in the season 2016-2017.

In 2016 and 2017 he conducted gala concerts of stars of the world opera scene at the Russian Ball in London, held under the patronage of Princess Olga Andreyevna Romanova. In cooperation with the Vienna Ball Moscow project, he has given gala concerts in the Czech Republic, Latvia, China and Russia.

In 2019 he took part in the gala concert at the First Russian Ball in China, where the guest of honor was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China Andrey Denisov.

In December 2019, At the invitation of POSCO Korea and Kim Cha-Kyung Opera Company, Kim Cha-Kyung Opera Company performed in Seoul at Lotte Concert Hall (South Korea). The With POSCO Opera Cala Concert program included works by G. Donizetti, G. Verdi, G. Puccini and music by Korean composers.

In 2018-2021. - Conductor of the gala concerts of laureates and the Casta Diva Russian Opera Prize award ceremony.

В качестве приглашенного дирижера сотрудничает с ведущими музыкальными театрами и коллективами России и Европы, в числе которых: оркестр «Новая Россия» (Москва, художественный руководитель и главный дирижер Ю. Башмет), оркестр «Русская филармония» (Москва, главный дирижер Д. Юровский), Государственный академический Большой симфонический оркестр им. П.И. Tchaikovsky (Moscow, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor V. Fedoseyev), the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Shostakovich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Massimo Bellini Theater Orchestra (Catania, Italy), the Mikhailovsky Theater (St. Petersburg), the Opera and Ballet Theater of the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory and others.

Andrey Lebedev has performed with such famous instrumental soloists as D. Matsuev, A. Gindin, V. Ovchinnikov, A. Trostyansky, G. Murzha, A. Diev, M. Lidsky, as well as with vocalists A. Vedernikov, L. Kazarnovskaya, Kh. Gerzmava, I. Abdrazakov.

Andrei Lebedev's repertoire includes over 50 opera and ballet performances, including: "Carmen" by J. Bizet, "La Traviata" and "Rigoletto" by G. Verdi, "Romeo and Juliet" by Sh. Gounod, "La Bohème" by G. Puccini, "Pagliacci" by R. Leoncavallo, "Love Drink" by G. I. Glinka, "Ruslan and Lyudmila" by M. I. Donizetti, "The Love Drink" by M. I. Glinka, and "The Love Drink" by M. I. Glinka. Donizetti, "Ruslan and Lyudmila" by M.I. Glinka, "Eugene Onegin", "Queen of Spades" and "Swan Lake" by P.I. Tchaikovsky, "The Passenger" by M.S. Weinberg.

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"Viva Verdi!" (gala concert)
"Ruslan and Lyudmila" by M.I. Glinka
"OPERAMANIA" (Musical divertissement)
"The Marriage of Figaro" by W.A. Mozart
"Songs of the War Years" (Concert)
"Sacred Spring" by I.F. Stravinsky
"Johann Strauss, King of Waltzes." (gala concert)
"O Mozart! Mozart..." (requiem)
"Eugene Onegin" by P.I. Tchaikovsky
"The Gingerbread House, or Hansel and Gretel." E. Humperdinck
"Rigoletto" G. Verdi
"THE FOUR KINGS OF OPERETTA" (Concert)
"The Players" D.D. Shostakovich
"The Passenger Girl" by M.S. Weinberg
"Romeo and Juliet". Ch. Gounod
"Faust" Ch. Gounod
"La Bohème" G. Puccini
"Babylon" I.F. Stravinsky

Requiem by W.A. Mozart
Requiem by E. Lloyd Webber

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