Leonid Korchmar

Career

Since 1989 he has been a conductor in the Mariinsky Theatre (former Kirov Ballet and Opera) in Saint St. Petersburg. Having studied with Ilya Musin, he now also teaches operatic and symphonic conducting in the Street St. Petersburg Conservatory, where his students have included Mikhail Agrest, Christian Knapp, Anu Tali, Sasha Mäkilä, Kristofer Wåhlander and Markku Laakso.

Achievements

• He is an Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation and of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania and a diploma-winner at the All-Russian Conducting Competition (1981).