Under his direction, the orchestra of the High School of Music “Schloss Belvedere”, a school for highly gifted musicians in Weimar, won first place prize at an orchestra competition in Osnabrück. "Next to his artistic abilties, he is an advocate for open, friendly and at the same time confident honesty.
© 1994-2020 Classical Archives LLC — The Ultimate Classical Music Destination ™ Alexander Lebedev (vibraphone) - Play streams in full or download MP3 from Classical Archives (classicalarchives.com), the largest and best organized classical music site on the web. The performance was awarded a prize under the Deutsche Bank event. “I had completely forgotten that there is a greater composition behind it,” described another in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine”.His successes also include the musical direction in the Festival of Contemporary Music in Weimar and Donaueschingen, concert appearances with the orchestras of Italy, Brussels and Hungary, and collaborations with the orchestras of Korea and Hong Kong. He teaches symphonic conducting at Germany’s oldest music institution and has recently received an invitation for a professorship at his native alma mater, the St. Petersburg Conservatory, with which he has been closely associated for more than ten years through his concert activities. He performed in symphony concerts in the Great Hall of the Philharmonic and Kapella, as well as with the ballet ensemble of the Alexandria Theatre.Together with an invitation to a position at the Meiningen Theatre, he received admission to the Franz Liszt School of Music Weimar. GMD Prof. George Alexander Albrecht Tweet "Juri Lebedev holds the extraordinary ability to find the artistic core of a piece and bring it to life." He also conducts the State Youth Orchestra of Thuringia, with which he performed works by Mahler, Strauss, Beethoven, Dukas and Mussorgski. His conducting technique is perfect" "I see him as a perfectly trained and educated musician. Prof. Ilya Musin Tweet. He is also a regular guest conductor at the Via Nova International Contemporary Music Festival in Weimar.Lebedev attaches great importance to his work with youth orchestras. Performances in the best concert halls in Germany and Europe were followed by performances with orchestras of the “Weimarer Landeskapelle” as well as with philharmonic and radio orchestras from Leipzig, Hamburg, Koblenz and Brandenburg. The performance of Richard Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung”, which he wrote as an arrangement for 16 instrumentalists and soloists at the Erfurt State Theatre, was performed over three seasons and enjoyed great recognition and success.“It was in no way a simplification of a bigger piece. Motives, accents, sonority, everything was there,” wrote one reporter.
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He made his debut on the international stage in 1998 at the opera festival at the German National Theatre in Weimar with Benjamin Britten’s opera “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.
Critics praise his work as a conductor in the theatres of Meiningen, Würzburg, Zwickau, Altenburg with the operas of K. Monteverdi, W. Mozart, D. Rossini, G. Donizetti, D. Verdi, R. Wagner, D. Shostakovich, M. Kagel and D. Glanert.ermanent guest conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg and the Thuringian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, actively collaborating with the Philharmonic Orchestras of Germany (Weimar, Leipzig, Neubrandenburg, Koblenz) and Russia (Krasnoyarsk, Volgograd, Saratov).As a graduate of the boys’ choir school “M. “Yuri Lebedev on the conductor’s podium managed to convey an extremely rich atmosphere of musical sounds that can only be compared to the best interpretations of English orchestras,” wrote the “Thüringen Allgemeine”.He subsequently received invitations to various theatres in Germany and France, including for performances of the operas by Monteverdi, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, Shostakovich, Kagel and Glanert.