Aleksandr Polyakov

Aleksandr Polyakov, Conductor

University of Michigan 2020-2023
D.M.A. in Orchestral Conducting (GPA 4.0)
Professor – Kenneth Kiesler

National Music Academy of Ukraine, named after P.I.Tchaikovsky 2010-2014
B.M.,M.M. in Orchestral Conducting /magna cum laude/
Professor, People’s Artist of Ukraine, Conductor of National Opera – Allin Vlasenko

Operatic Repertoire Studies (2012-2014) Instructors: A. Kulbaba, V. Kozhuhar, A. Vlasenko 

Ballet Repertoire Studies (2012-2014) Instructor: I. Palkin 

Orchestration & Score Reading (2010-2013) Instructors: A. Yakovchuk, A. Kostin 

Staging the Opera (2010-2013) Instructor: S. Shutko

Active participation in masterclasses with renowned artists and pedagogues:

Kenneth Kiesler, Jorma Panula, Riccardo Muti, Paavo Jarvi, Neeme Jarvi, Dejan Savic, Donald Schleicher, Eduardo Navega, Gianmaria Griglio, Guillermo Figueroa, Harold Farberman, Lawrence Golan, Leon Botstein, Leonid Grin, Paul Nadler, Kirk Trevor

Private instruction and artistic mentorship:
James Orent, Raymond Harvey

2018 Diploma, Spaziomusica Opera Conducting Competition, Orvieto, Italy 

2015 Honorable Mention, Opera Conducting Competition, Constanta, Romania

Associate Music Director (“Sweet Charity”)
Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Music Theater 2023

Cover Conductor
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
2022-2024

University Symphony Orchestra (UM) 2020-2023
University Philharmonia Orchestra (UM) 2020-2023

Assistant Positions:

University Of Michigan
UPO – Opera Orchestra, Mozart Don Giovanni 2023
USO – Opera Orchestra, Massenet Cendrillon 2021

Moores Opera Center (Houston, TX)
Prokofiev Love for 3 oranges, Mascagni L’amico Fritz, Rossini L’Italiana in Algeri. 2017-2018

Commonwealth Lyric Theater (Boston, MA)
M.P.Mussorgsky Borys Godunov 2016

Opera studio of National Music Academy of Ukraine

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin, Mozart Marriage of Figaro, 
Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Rimsky-Kosakov Tsar’s Bride,
Verdi Traviata, Verdi Rigoletto, Puccini Tosca, Tchaikovsky Iolanta,
Rubinstein The Demon

Repertoire

Vocal and Operatic works

Barber
Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Bizet
Carmen

Coleman
“Sweet Charity”

Mahler
Rückert-Lieder
Kindertotenlieder

Mascagni
L’amico Fritz

Massenet, Jules
Cendrillon

Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
Don Giovanni

Mussorgsky
Songs of Dances and Death
Boris Godunov

Prokofiev
Love for Three Oranges

Puccini
La Boheme
Madama Butterfly

Rimsky-Korsakov
Tsar’s Bride

Rossini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
l’Italiana in Algieri

Rubinstein
The Demon

Saint-Saens
Samson et Dalila

Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin

Verdi
La Traviata
Rigoletto
Macbetto
Un Ballo in Maschera

Concert Repertoire

Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 3
Concerto for Violin and Oboe 

Barber
Adagio for Strings, op. 11

Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra

Beethoven
Overtures:
Coriolan Op.62
Leonore #3 Op.72b
Egmont Op.84
Symphony No. 1 in C major, op. 27
Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 36
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55
Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, op. 60
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67
Symphony No. 7 in A major, op. 92

Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique, op.14

Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Brahms
Academic Festival Overture Op.80
Tragic Overture Op.81
Symphony No.1 Op.68
Symphony No.2 Op.73
Symphony No.3 Op.90
Symphony No.4 Op.98

Britten
Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a

Bruckner
Symphony No 6 in A major, WAB 106

Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Symphony No. 1

Coleridge-Taylor
Symphonic Variations on an African Air
Ballade

Copland
Clarinet Concerto
Appalachian Spring

Davis
You Have The Right to Remain Silent

Dawson
Negro Folk Symphony

Debussy
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Dvorak, Antonin
Symphony No. 4 in D minor, op.13
Symphony No. 9 in E minor,
Carnival Overture, op.93

Elgar
Enigma Variations Op. 36

Enescu
Suite #1

Esquer
Reflexiones de la Naturaleza, op. 1 no. 2
Infierno

Fujikura
Mina

Ginastera
Variaciones Concertantes

Haydn
Symphony No. 82
Symphony No. 103
Symphony No. 104

Ibert
Concertino da Camera

Kodály
Dances of Galánta

James Lee III
Tethered Voices

Lindveit
Learning How to Fly

Liszt
Symphonic Poems:
“Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo” S.96
“Les Preludes” S.97
“Prometheus” S.99
“Orpheus” S.98
“Mazeppa” S.100

Lyatoshynsky
Symphony No. 3 in B minor, op.50

Macmillan
The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie

Mahler
Symphony No. 1 “Titan”
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 5

Mascagni
“Cavalleria Rusticana” Intermezzo

Mendelssohn
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage

Mozart
Overtures:
“Le Nozze di Figaro” K.492
“Don Giovanni” K.527
“Die Zauberflöte” K.620
Symphony No. 25 K.183
Symphony No. 29
Symphony No. 35 K.385 “Haffner”
Symphony No. 36 K.425 “Linz”
Symphony No. 38 K.504 “Prague”
Symphony No. 39 K. 543
Ballet Music from Idomeneo

Price
Concert Overture

Prokofiev
Symphony No. 1 Op.25 “Classical”
Symphony No. 5 Op.100
Symphony No. 7 Op.131

Puccini
Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut

Rachmaninov
“Isle of Dead” Op.29
“Symphonic Dances” Op.45
Symphony No. 2 in E minor, op. 27
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, op. 44

Ravel
La Valse

Rimsky-Korsakov
“Sheherazade” Op.35

Schostakovich, Dmitri
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, op. 47
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, op. 54
Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major, op. 70
Symphony No. 10 in E minor, op.93
Chamber Symphony

Schubert
Symphony No. 4 D.417 “Tragic”
Symphony No. 8 D.759 “Unfinished”

Schumann
Julius Caesar Overture Op.128
Overture to Genoveva, Op. 81
Symphony No. 3 (“Rhenish”)
Symphony No. 4

Sibelius

Symphony No. 2 in D major, op.43
Symphony No. 7

Strauss
Death and Transfiguration

Strauss (Jr.)
Overture to Die Fledermaus

Stravinsky
Firebird Suite (1919)
Petrushka (1947)
L’Histoire du Soldat
The Rite of Spring

Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini Op.32
The Tempest Op.18
Romeo & Juliet
Hamlet Op.67
Italian Capriccio Op.45
Serenade for Strings
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, “Pathetique”

Theofanidis
Rainbow Body

Tsui
The Great Steppe

Tubin, Eduard
Symphony No. 6

Verdi
Overture: “La Forza del Destino”

Wagner
Overture to Tannhauser
Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Prelude to Tristan und Isolde

Walker
Lyric for Strings

Walton
Scapino

Weber, Carl Maria von
Overture to Der Freischütz
Overture to Euryanthe
Overture to Oberon

Wilson
Silhouette in Revelry

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