Nikolai Alexeev

From the season 2001/2002 the principal conductor and music director of Estonian National Symphony Orchestra is a renowned performer of St. Petersburg's new school of conductors, Nikolai Alexeev.

After completing the St. Petersburg Conservatory (under the guidance of Arvid and Maris Jansons), Nikolai Alexeev worked with the Maria Theatre in St. Petersburg, and as conductor of the Ulyanovsk Philharmonic Orchestra and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. He has directed the leading symphony orchestras in Moscow as well as in St. Petersburg, and has given concerts in Europe, the United States and Japan. Nikolai Alexeev is also principal conductor and artistic director of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, an associate director with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and in the season 2002/2003 he was the principal guest conductor of Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. While Alexeev's first experience with the ENSO was as a guest conductor in 1983, the relationship has become a much closer one since 1995.

Nikolai Alexeev: “I think that in the course of time our relations have become quite close like those in a family, surely, we are very good friends, and as for me, I personally should say that I love ERSO. /-/ Every concert has been a pleasant and enjoyable experience for me, and if it were not like this, I would not work with ERSO. /-/ I am very glad that ERSO has an audience of its own who loves and needs it very much. At times one can feel happiness, and when working with ERSO, happy would be exactly the right word to describe my emotions,” says Nikolai Alexeev (while being interviewed by Riina Luik, December 2006).

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