Alexander Vedernikov

Conductor Alexander Vedernikov was equally prominent in the fields of opera and orchestral music, in both his home country of Russia and in the West. As music director of the Bolshoi Theatre in the 2000s decade, he led that venue's famed orchestra in new directions. Vedernikov was born in Moscow on January 11, 1964. His parents were both musicians at the highest level: his father, Alexander Filipovich Vedernikov, was a major bass singer of the Soviet era, and his mother taught organ at the Moscow Conservatory. Vedernikov attended the conservatory himself, graduating in 1988....