Alexander Vakoulsky

Alexander Dmitriyevich Vakoulsky (; January 1, 1949 in Iglinsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia - July 11, 2019 ) was a Russian-Dutch conductor who was influenced by Yevgeny Mravinsky and Yevgeny Svetlanov.

Biography Vakoulksy was educated by Nikolay Rabinovich and Jeffrey Livine at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory from which he graduated with honours. In 1975 he made his conducting debut with La Traviata, but was forced to relocate to the Netherlands next year. After emigration to the Netherlands he became a conductor of the Dutch Radio Corporation the directors of which were Edward Downs and Kirill Kondrashin. For a short time, he worked as a principal conductor of the National Youth Orchestra and then later worked at the Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra for twenty years.

Besides being a conductor in the Netherlands, he also conducted Russian, including Moscow and Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras and also French orchestras such as French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Lillian National Orchestra, Parisian Chamber Orchestra, and National Opera House of Montpellier. He planned to perform his concerts in Brazil, Denmark, France, and Russia while his previous concerts were in Belgium, Spain, and Switzerland.