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MSO concerts take place in the Grand hall of Moscow Conservatory at ul. B. Nikitskaya, 13 unless the other locations are indicated in season.

Vladimir Ziva

Vladimir Ziva is possessed of strong volition, powerful virtuosity, energy, stage charisma and great capacity for work. His distinguished quality at the podium is his skill to produce a fine-toned sonority from the orchestra (which today is a great rarity) through scrupulous attention to detail ... His interpretations are always convincing and precisely recreate the individual style of a composer. In the evaluation of experts, V. Ziva has entered the ranks of the best conductors in Russia. “Music Review”

Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the MSO since 1997, Vladimir Ziva is recognized as one of Russia's most outstanding conductors.

Born in 1957, Vladimir Ziva holds degrees from both Leningrad and Moscow Conservatories. From 1984 until 1987, he served as the assistant to the principal conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic. Upon the invitation of the Moscow conservatory, Maestro Ziva taught conducting at the orchestration faculty during the 1988 — 1989 academic year. From 1988 through June 2000 he was artistic director and chief conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic, and in 1990 he was appointed principal conductor of the St. Petersburg Opera and Ballet M.P. Musorgsky Theater, a position he held until 1992. Since being appointed artistic director and principal conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Ziva has divided his creative talents between his duties in Nizhny Novgorod and his work with the MSO. In 2000 Ziva was appointed artistic director and principal conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.

At the invitation of Svyatoslav Richter, Maestro Ziva has staged several operatic productions including “The Turn of The Screw” and “Albert Herring” by Benjamin Britten and “The Snowmaiden” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. In 1998 Maestro Ziva appeared as a musical director, stage director and conductor of Massenet's “Thais” at the Moscow Music Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater.

Vladimir Ziva has led tours in Russia and abroad with the best Russian and Western orchestras. He has performed in Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Portugal and France. In 1997, Vladimir Ziva conducted over 50 programs, performed over 200 compositions of different epochs and styles.

At the present time Vladimir Ziva is also an artistic director and chief conductor of the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra (Denmark).

Maestro Ziva’s gifted work at the podium has been recognized by his native land which has honored him as the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995) and granted him the title of “Honored Artist of Russia” (1994). In 1996 and 1997 Vladimir Ziva was named the “Conductor of the Year” by newspaper “Music Review”.