Biografie

Vasily Valitov – Conductor
 

“One of the brightest and most distinctive conductors of the younger generation” – the newspaper Kultura.

 

In August 2023, he made his successful debut with the Vienna Beethoven Symphony Orchestra (Austria)

at the famous Golden Hall Musikverein in Vienna.

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In November 2022, he made his successful debut with the Webern Symphony Orchestra (Austria) at Ehrbar Hall in Vienna.

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In 2019, Vasily was elected by the musicians of the Hamamatsu Philharmonic Orchestra (Japan) as principal guest conductor. In parallel, he has been rapidly expanding his international career to include regular appearances with the Seto Philharmonic Orchestra of Takamatsu (Japan), the Ecuador National Symphony Orchestra to name but a few.

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Since 2018, he has been a leading professor at the Department of Opera and Symphonic Conducting at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

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Vasily Valitov is artistic director of two major international festivals, bringing together musicians from 15 countries.

Vasily has initiated a number of major international music projects, too.

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In 2016, he founded the Austrian-Russian Summer Music School in Bregenz, Austria, with the support of the Austrian Parliament and personally the second President of the Austrian National Council, Mr Karlheinz Kopf, as well as the Ambassadors of the two countries.

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In the same year he founded and became head of the Vienna-Moscow Music Academy project with the active participation of the Austrian and Russian Embassies and the support of Raiffeisenbank, and he also founded the Voice of Music, an international performing arts company in Austria.

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He has also toured to great acclaim in France, Austria, Italy and Qatar, where he has received the highest acclaim from music critics.

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In 2016, he took over the artistic direction of the International Symphony Orchestra of the CIS countries.

At the same time, Vasily Valitov became a regular guest conductor of Russia’s most famous symphony orchestras, including the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the State Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan and others.

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His repertoire features over 45 opera titles, including Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde,  Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme, Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida, and many others.

Since 2012 he has been a guest conductor at the Tatar Academic State Opera and Ballet Theater, making his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre and performing on the stages of top opera houses.

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At the age of 26 he became Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Russia under the auspices of the Moscow State Conservatory, at 32 – Chief Conductor of the Astrakhan

State Theatre of Opera and Ballet, and two years later – Chief Conductor of the Moscow Theatre “New Opera.”

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Vasily was born in Moscow in 1976. He finished the Central School of Music at the Moscow State Conservatory and graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with a degree in oboe and opera and symphony conducting.

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Awards and honours:

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- Honoured Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan (2015);

- Medal of the Mayor of Moscow (2005);

- Certificate of Merit from the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation (2007);

- Acknowledgement from the Minister of the Government of Moscow, Head of the Department of

Culture of Moscow for a significant contribution to the development of Moscow's culture (2019).