Fedor I. Gluschenko Conductor   

Born in 1944 in Rostov-on-Don, Fedor Gluschenko began studying violin at an early age, then studied composition for two years at the Moscow Conservatory before moving to St. Petersburg. There, he began his conducting studies and graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the class of professor Ilya Mussin. Gluschenko later took postgraduate studies at the Vienna Academy with Karl Osterreicher and Otmar Suitner, and also took classes with Herbert von Karajan.

In 1971 Gluschenko was appointed Chief Conductor of the Karelian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and, in 1973, was named Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra in Kiev. He retained this post for more than 10 years and led performances with his orchestra - and others - in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Prague, Dusseldorf, Nuremberg, Krakow, Sofia, Dublin, Aalborg, Odense, and elsewhere.

Gluschenko is a frequent guest conductor of orchestras, operas, and ballets throughout the former Soviet Union and abroad. He has participated in music festivals in Moscow, Bratislava, Brno, and Athens, and worked with the Istanbul Opera in 1990 and 1991. Gluschenko has conducted every year in Great Britain since 1989, where he works with the five BBC Orchestras, as well as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Hallé Symphony Orchestra and The Philharmonia Orchestra. For several years Gluschenko conducted the Ulster Orchestra at the Belfast Festival, and conducted Promenade concerts in the Royal Albert Hall in London. He has recorded a number of CDs for the British recording companies, Olympia, Hyperion, Chandos, and Conifer Classics. Among the soloists with whom Gluschenko has performed are pianists, Dejo Ranki, Andrei Gavrilov, Nikolai Petrov, and Martino Tirimo; violinists, Gidon Kremer and Vladimir Spivakov; violist, Yuri Bashmet; cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, and many others.

Fedor Gluschenko has been the permanent guest conductor of the State Symphony and Moscow Philharmonic Orchestras since 1991, and has led concerts with those orchestras in Russia, as well as in Italy, Sweden, Denmark, China, Slovakia, and Spain.

Reviews

"Even with the solid structure of Bruckner's 4th Symphony (Romantic), there was fire and excitement in a concert which had the National Symphony Orchestra in vibrantly pulsating form from start to finish."

Evening Press (UK)

"Saturday night's concert marked Gluschhenko's fourth return visit to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and that vital electricity between conductor and players is still as palpable and rewarding as ever."

Scotsman (UK)

"Gluschhenko conducted with the kind of energy, authority, and conviction that elicited the widest possible range of dynamics from the musicians and went right to the heart of the music."

Granada (Spain)