15 Facts About Edvard Tchivzhel

Edvard Tchivzhel was born into a musical family in St Petersburg, Russia.

Edvard Tchivzhel graduated from the prestigious Leningrad Conservatory, which produced notable alumni such as Jascha Heifetz, Mariss Jansons, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Vladimir Sofronitsky, Yuri Temirkanov, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, with degrees in piano and conducting.

Edvard Tchivzhel then completed three years of postgraduate study under Latvian conductor, Arvid Jansons.

Edvard Tchivzhel was assistant conductor to conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra from 1974 until 1977.

Edvard Tchivzhel was the permanent guest conductor of the St Petersburg Philharmonic and has frequently conducted the Moscow Philharmonic, the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet as well as other orchestras in the former Soviet Union.

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Edvard Tchivzhel served as associate conductor of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra, led by Evgeny Svetlanov.

In 1991, during a month-long tour with USSR State Symphony, Edvard Tchivzhel told his host in Greenville, South Carolina, that he wanted to defect to the United States.

Edvard Tchivzhel has conducted outside of the Soviet Union since the 1980s.

Edvard Tchivzhel has performed in England, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand.

Edvard Tchivzhel served as artistic advisor for the Auckland Philharmonia.

Edvard Tchivzhel has recently performed in Venezuela, with the Orquestra Sinfonica del Estado in Mexico in commemoration of the victory in World War II, with the Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira in Rio de Janeiro.

Edvard Tchivzhel performed with the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra, Spain and in Romania.

Edvard Tchivzhel has debuted with the Baltimore Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony and the Grand Rapids Symphony.

Edvard Tchivzhel has held permanent positions as music director with the Karelian Symphony Orchestra of National Television and Radio, the Atlantic Sinfonietta, a small chamber orchestra in New York, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra and the Greenville Symphony Orchestra.

Edvard Tchivzhel serves as distinguished visiting professor at Furman University.