Nikolai Alexeev is without any doubt the Shostakovich expert on orchestra stages. At his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra his conducting of
Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony showed great tension right from the first beat.
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Currently Chief Conductor of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and Associate Conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Nikolai Alexeev has been a major figure on the musical stages of the main houses in Europe. In 2001 he made his successful debut with the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra at Concertgebouw Amsterdam replacing Eri Klas at very short notice. He conducted the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Göteborg Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest, Dresden Philharmonic, Stuttgart Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, Bilbao Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Wiener Concert-Verein, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

Nikolai Alexeev is a versatile conductor whose symphonic and opera repertoire ranges from classic repertoire like Mozart and Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov to contemporary music by Schönberg, Hindemith, Stravinsky and Prokoviev as well as contemporary Nordic composers.

Winner and laureate of the Karajan Competition, Vaclav Talich Competition Prague and Minon Competition in Japan Nikolai Alexeev has directed the leading Russian symphony orchestras in Russia and on tour in Europe, America and Japan. In 2001 he has been directing a tour of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra in France with huge success. Nikolai Alexeev regularly conducts the Russian National Orchestra and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Evgeni Svetlanov.

Future engagements will include concerts with the Orchestre National de Belgique, Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, New Japan Philharmonic etc.

Nikolai Alexeev was born into a family of renowned musicians in St. Petersburg. After completing the St.
Petersburg Conservatory studying with Arvid and Mariss Jansons, Nikolai Alexeev worked with the Ulyanovsk Philharmonic and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra.