Sviatoslav Luther

Conductor

Conductor of the Musical Theatre of Karelia, the Baltic Symphony Orchestra conductor, musical director chamber orchestra Singolo orchestra. Since 1998, Sviatoslav Luther is the conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg.

Born into a family of musicians in St. Petersburg. He studied in the Choir School at the State Academic Capella. Glinka. In the St. Petersburg State Conservatory of Rimsky-Korsakov taught choral conducting classes in V.Nesterova, N.Korneva and symphony conducting the classes V.Fedotova, R.Martynova. Later on numerous occasions in the conductor's art workshops Zubin Mehta, Franco Mannino, Yuri Simonov.

Conductors experience received during his training in the Choir School, speaking with the renowned choir boys. In the conservatory years worked with the choir, directed the choir of German music in the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Chorus master and assistant conductor worked worked in the theater chamber opera "The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera", taught conducting and was choirmaster at the St. Petersburg Academy of Culture. Under his leadership, a large number of concerts and loan cycles in St. Petersburg and beyond. For the first time in the Assembly Hall of the St. Petersburg State University for one year play all nine Beethoven symphonies. In 2004, at the initiative of Sviatoslav Luther in St. Petersburg was organized program "Student Philharmonic" - free concerts for the students of the city.

He performs regularly with various orchestras and choirs of St. Petersburg, has been active theatrical activity, is involved in most of Petersburg festivals. Implemented a number of premiere performances and recordings ("Count Nulin" B.Sinkin, «La Devozione Alla Croce» L. Ivanova, "Christmas Tree" V.Rebikov). At the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg State Philharmonic presents such major programs as Verdi's Requiem, "Stars Bel Canto" with soloists from La Scala Theatre. Under the leadership of Sviatoslav Luther was staged opera Rachmaninoff "Francesca da Rimini."

He has toured with various orchestras in Russia, Italy, USA, Mexico. Participated in the organization at Orso III International Festival Symphony Orchestra (Moscow, 2008). He took part in the festival "Martishore" (Moldova) «Bangkok's International Festival of Dance & Music» and «Russian Romantic» (Thailand) «Morristown festival» (U.S.), XI International Festival. Mravinsky (Estonia), and other creative and productive was to work with other conductors (F.Mannino, R.Peydzh, Ya.Kovach, K.Ponti), leading opera soloists and instrumentalists known (Jose Carreras, Elena Obraztsova, Zlata Bulycheva, Basil Gerello, Anna Netrebko, Alexander Slobodyanik).