Alexander Polyanichko studied conducting with the legendary professor Ilya Musin at the Saint Petersburg State Conservatoire which he graduated with honors in June 1991.
First Prize Laureate in the Sixth All-Union Conductor’s Competition (1988)
House Conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg from 1989. Alexander toured with the Company throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States.
In 1994, Polyanichko made his London debut conducting English National Opera’s production of Eugene Onegin.
Jury member at the Rimsky-Korsakov Opera Singers’ Competition (1996)
From 1996 to 1999, he was the Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta.
From 2005, Polyanichko gave orchestral master classes for the Swedish National Orchestra Academy, Symphony Orchestra of the Royal College of Music, London, Chamber Orchestra of the Cambridge University, and Britten-Pears Youth Orchestra.
The Honoured Artist of Russia (2009)
Jury member at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition (2011)
From 1996 to the present, Maestro has working with leading orchestras around the world.
He has worked with major opera companies throughout the world, including the Bolshoi Theatre (La Bohème, Tosca, The Queen of Spades, Eugene Onegin, The Maid of Pskov), the Danish Royal Opera (The Queen of Spades, The Love for Three Oranges, The Markopoulos Case with director Graham Vick), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (La Traviata with director Götz Friedrich), the English National Opera (Eugene Onegin, Carmen), the Gothenburg Opera (The Queen of Spades, Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin), La Scala (Khovanschina), Lyric Opera of Kansas City (Rusalka), Nationale Reisopera of The Nederlands (Madama Butterfly), the Norwegian Opera (La Bohème, Madama Butterfly), Opera Australia (Carmen, Manon Lescaut), Opera Colorado (Rusalka), Opéra de Monte Carlo (Boris Godunov), Opera National de Paris (Mavra, The Prodigal Son, Seven Deadly Sins with Anne Sofie von Otter), Opera New Zealand (Eugene Onegin), the Royal Opera, Covent Garden (Queen of Spades with Placido Domingo, Cherevichki/Tsarina’s Slippers with director Francesca Zambello), the San Francisco Opera (Fiery Angel, Turandot, La Bohème, The Cunning Little Vixen), Stuttgart Opera (The Queen of Spades, Lady Macbeth of Mstensk, Tosca, Boris Godunov with Pata Burchuladze, Turandot, La Traviata with Jonas Kaufmann), the Swedish Royal Opera, the Zurich Opera and the Welsh National Opera (La Traviata, Hansel und Gretel, Mazeppa, Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades), the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Beethoven Academie of Antwerp, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Radio Orchestra, the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Jenaer Philharmonie, the Latvian State Symphony Orchestra, the Norway Radio Orchestra, the Aalborg Symphony
Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Opera de Lyon, the Orchestra of Gothenburg Opera, the Orchestra of Danish Royal Opera House, the Oregon Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestras of Belorussia, Latvia and Kazahkstan, as well as the major orchestras in Russia, including the Sverdlovsk Symphony Orchestra, the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra and both Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestras
Other links: Alexander Polyanichko served as Jury Member of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
