Aleksandr Lavrenyuk

Aleksandr Lavrenyuk was born on June 5 1939 in Moscow Honoured Artist of the RSFSR May 25 1976 A ballet dancer and conductor After graduating from the Moscow Art Theatre School class of Asaf Messerer he performed as a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre from 19591979 and served as a conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre from 19801988 Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union CPSU since 1966 In 1971 he graduated from the choreography department of the AV Lunacharsky State Institute of Theatre Arts RATI as a choreographerteacher and taught there from 19761977 As a dancer and later as a conductor he toured with the Bolshoi Ballet company in Europe Asia Australia and the US From 1970 to 1974 he taught at the Moscow Choreographic School During this period he also studied at the conducting department of the Moscow Institute of Culture before undertaking a training placement at the Moscow State Conservatoire as a symphony conductor under Yuri Simonov He made his conducting debut at the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theatre wherein he held this position from 19781980 He was the stage director for the ballets Timur and His Team by VG Agafonnikov May 91986 and Anyuta by VA Gavrilin May 31 1986 In 1988 he took up the post of principal conductor at the New Ballet of Moscow theatrestudio in 1990 he became a conductor and rehearsal director with the Bolshoi Theatre Yuri Grigorovich Studio company and from 1996 he served as principal conductor of the Yuri Grigorovich Ballet Theatre in Krasnodar In this capacity he staged 15 fulllength productions Between 1996 2003 he toured with the Krasnodar company in the UK Greece Germany Turkey US Austria Norway Spain Portugal and Italy as well as in cities across Russia St Petersburg Sochi Volgograd Yaroslavl Kislovodsk and Nalchik As musical director and conductor he took part in productions of the ballets Cinderella and Spartacus in Seoul The Nutcracker in Istanbul and Chișinău and Le Corsaire at the Kremlin Ballet Theatre all choreographed by Yury N Grigorovich He played over 30 roles in various theatre productions from 19561979