Alexander Titov

The conductor Aleksander Titov was born in 1954. He received his musical education at the St. Petersburg Conservatory as a pianist, choir director, and opera-symphony director from such famed professors as Avenir Mikhailov and Ilya Musin. His concert activities at the finest St. Petersburg halls began in the mid 1970s. Titov participated in international projects as an assistant to Mstislav Rostropovich and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Music from all epochs are in his repertoire, from Monteverdi to compositions from today. He is especially famous as a wonderful interpreter of 20th century music, as well as of many rarely-performed and forgotten compositions. In terms of his creative assets – aside from the symphonies – are many cantata-oratory works. He brought into existence and premiered such opuses as Cantata on the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution of Prokofiev and the cantata The History of Doctor Johann Faust.
Titov actively tours abroad, and has especially durable creative contacts with the BBC orchestra. He teaches at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and has been guest conductor at the Mariinsky theatre. His theatrical repertoire includes Russian opera classics (in the same vein as Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila), Shostakovich’s Katerina Izmailova, Prokofiev’s four operas (The Gambler, Love for three oranges, Semyon Kotko, War and Peace) and almost all traditional ballet classics (including Tchaikovsky’s ballets), all ballets from Stravinsky’s Russian period of creativity, and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.