Alexander Polishchuk

Alexander Polishchuk is a Russian conductor and Meritorious Artist.

Conductor Polishchuk graduated from Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1991 and after it worked as an assistant to Professor Ilya Musin following by 1988 winning at the All-Union Conductors’ Competition. Since 1990 he has conducted numerous works at both Mariinsky Theatre and Saint Petersburg Philharmonic. As his fame grew nationally, he began to do international performances as well with Covent Garden's Royal Opera House being his first international place for performance. There, her performed one of the Red Square's concerts with Russian National Orchestra after which he returned to Russia. When he returned, he continued collaboration among Russian ballet and theatres such as the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre and Kyiv Opera.

From 1989 to 1991, he worked with Helikon Opera and both Bolshoi and Mikhaylovsky Theatres, with which he had international performances as well. By 1991 he became a principal conductor of the St. Petersburg Municipal Symphony Orchestra where he served till 1995 and then next year became Saint Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra's artistic director and principal conductor. which were followed by German and Swiss festivals as well. It is important to mention that from 1995 to 2002 professor Polishchuk was an artistic director of the Peter the Great Master Class and Workshop and from 1998 to 1999 was a guest professor and conductor of the Royal Academy College of Music as well.