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Director, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the State Academic Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg) since 1996, People's Artist of Russia; born on May 2, 1953 in Moscow; graduated from the Leningrad State Conservatory named after N.A.Rimsky-Korsakov in 1977; since 1977 he worked in the Mariinsky Theatre (formerly the Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet) as a conductor, since 1988 - chief conductor of the opera since 1994 - the main conductor of the opera; he has performed a cycle in parallel with the State orchestra, as a conductor and director of the orchestra.