Principal Conductor, State Theatre of Ballet and Opera in Memory of � Mussorgsky

		Andrei Anikhanov was born in 1965, in St.Petersburg, Russia.
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		Educated in the Glinka Choral College of the St.Petersburg Academic Capella, he continued his studies at the St.Petersburg State Rimski-Korsakov Conservatoire (1983-87 in the Choral Conducting Department under Professor Elizaveta Kudriavtseva; 1987-92 in the Opera and Symphony Conducting Department under Professor Alexander Dmitriev), from where he graduated.
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		In 1986 he won the 'Diploma of the Russian Federation of Young Choral Conductors', and for several years conducted The St.Petersburg Amateur Singers Choir.
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		Andrei was invited in 1989 to take the position of Conductor at the Mussorgski Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in St.Petersburg, and became its Principal Conductor in 1992.
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		Eugene Onegin, Pique Dame, Iolanta, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and Nutcracker by Tchaikovski; Borodin's Prince Igor ; Boris Godunov and Khovantschina by Mussorgski; Golden Cockerel by Rimski-Korsakov; Verdi's Rigoletto and Don Carlos; La Boheme and Madam Butterrfly by Puccini; and many other opera and ballet works are included in Andrei Anikhanov's repertoire. He directed Fairytale about Tsar Saltan by Rimski-Korsakov; Peter the First by Petrov; La Traviata by Verdi and Banevich's ballet Petersburg; Adam's Corsair and White Knight by Milla.
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		The Mussorgski Opera and Ballet Theatre tours to Italy (1990 and 1992), the USA (1992), Japan (1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998), France (1993), Portugal (1993), Spain (1993), and Netherlands (1994, 1995 and 1996) gave Andrei valuable experiences of conducting in different theatres.
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		A performance in 1994 at the Savonlinna Musical Festival, and the Grasline Opera in Nantes were under his direction. He also conducts the St.Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Russian National Symphony Orchestra. �
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