Background
Yuri Ilyich Nikolaevsky was born on the 10th of December, 1925 in Moscow city, Russian Federation.
Yuri Ilyich Nikolaevsky was born on the 10th of December, 1925 in Moscow city, Russian Federation.
In 1949 Yuri Nikolaevsky graduated from the Moscow Conservatory as a violist. In 1955 he graduated from the conductor department of the Leningrad Conservatory (a student of professors E.P. Grikurov and N.S. Rabinovich).
After the graduation from the Moscow Conservatory, Yuri Nikolaevsky worked as an accompanist in the All-Union Radio orchestra, and performed as a solo-violist. Since 1955 he worked as an accompanist`s assistant in the orchestra of the Leningrad Philharmonic. He began his conducting career in Tomsk, led the orchestras of Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk.
Since the autumn of 1966 he was the head of the Voronezh Symphony Orchestra. He promulgated modern music. Having passed the competition for the post of conductor of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra, he moved to Moscow (at the end of 1971). In the second half of the 1970s, Nikolaevsky became the head of an ensemble of undergraduate and graduate students of the Moscow Conservatory, where O. Kagan, N. Gutman, and Yu. Bashmet were the soloists. S. Richter worked closely with the ensemble.
From 1991 to April 2003 he was a conductor of the Omsk Chamber Orchestra. As a conductor, he had a lot of concert activities, toured abroad.
