MIKHAIL LEONTYEV

Conductor

Russian conductor. An artist of ERP. A representative of the younger generation of musicians in St Petersburg.

 
Not yet 30, the conductor’s biography includes impressive facts: performances with the orchestra of the State Cappella of St Petersburg, Federal State Philharmonic on Caucasus Mineral Waters, the State Opera and Ballet of the Republic of Komi, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Osaka Philharmonic, Symphony Orchestra of St Petersburg, Chamber Orchestra Arpeggione (Moscow), Mikhailovsky Theatre (St Petersburg), Tambov Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg Music House, etc. The season of 2011–2012 will see debut with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra named after Evgeny Svetlanov.

Mikhail Leontyev (Михаил Леонтьев) has received excellent education. He has graduated from the Choral College named after Glinka, the St Petersburg Conservatoire where he studied choral and operatic and symphonic conducting. Also, Arnold Katz’s, Vladimir Fedoseyev’s, Mark Gorenstein’s, Victor Yampolsky’s, Jorma Panula’s and other master-classes have given rise to a bright career. Mikhail Leontyev has been coached by such outstanding conductors like People’s Artist of Russia, Prof Ravil Martynov, Tatiana Nemkina, People’s Artist of USSR, Prof Vladislav Chernushenko.

Mikhail Leontyev has conducted opera and ballet performances at the St Petersburg Conservatoire Theatre and the Hermitage Theatre and in 2008, staged a children’s opera The Little Prince by Banevich, performed in the international opera and ballet festival in Savonlinna (Finland), had concert tours with the Mikhailovsky Theatre in South Korea.

In his theatre music repertoire there are Tchaikovsky’s operas The Queen of Spades, Iolanta and Eugene Onegin, Borodin’s Prince Igor, Verdi’s Masked Ball, Halevi’s Jewess, Janáček’s Katya Kabanova, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. Mikhail Leontyev has also conducted Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake, Delibes’ Coppélia, Elcheva’s musical Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Uspensky’s Anna Karenina, Donizetti’s comic opera The Bell, Prokofiev’s children’s opera The Giant, etc. His extensive symphonic repertoire contains an awe-inspiring list.

Leontyev has won awards at several international competitions: V Conducting Competition named after Sergei Prokofiev (St Petersburg 2008, Title Winner and the Prize of Yamaha), XV Conducting Competition Min-On (Tokyo, 2009, a Gold Medal, Title of Laureate and the Prize of Asahi), I Open Conducting Competition named after Ilya Musin (Kostroma in 2009, 1st prize and Title of Laureate), I All-Russian Conducting Competition (Moscow 2011, Title of Laureate).

Since 2011, Mikhail Leontyev is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Tambov Symphony Orchestra.

Watch Mikhail Leontiev on YouTube:
Overture to Ruy Blas, Op 95 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 9 min 43 sec, Tokyo
Fantasy Kamarinskaya by Mikhail Glinka, 10 min 20 sec, Tokyo
Fragment from the opera The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, 5 min 31 sec, St Petersburg
Fragment from the opera Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, 7 min, St Petersburg
Overture Egmont by Ludwig van Beethoven, 10 min 47 sec, St Petersburg
Baltic Symphony Orchestra, 4 min 27 sec
Fragment from the opera Masked Ball by Giuseppe Verdi, 10 min 2 sec, St Petersburg

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