Since the earliest years of the orchestra (1968) famous conductors, soloists and choirs have been taking part in the concerts. Boris Haikin, Rudolf Barshai, Kirill Kondrashin, Nathan Rakhlin, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Fuat Mansurov, Yuri Temirkanov and others performed with the orchestra at different times. Foreign conductors such as Anton Kersjes (Netherlands), Dobrin Petkov (Bulgaria), Franz-Paul Decker (Canada), Enrique Mántici (Cuba), Olivier Cuendet, (Switzerland), Espen Selvik (Norway), Maria Eklund (Sweden), and Fabio Mastrangelo (Italy-Russia) participated in the concerts as well. Mstislav Rostropovich had repeatedly worked with the orchestra both as a soloist and as a conductor.

Such outstanding musicians as Yakov Flier, Nikolai Petrov, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Nikolai Lugansky, Denis Matsuev, Igor Oistrakh, Oleg Kagan, Maxim Fedotov, and others participated in concert programs of the orchestra. The orchestra has collaborated with leading Russian choirs: The Sveshnikov State Academic Russian Choir (the State Russian Choir), State Academic Choir of Russia named after A.A. Yurlov, State Academic Choir of Belarus, and others.

The orchestra possesses vast symphonic repertoire, consisting of various musical styles, trends and genres. The orchestra performed all the symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky, many works of Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Dvořák, Bruckner, Mahler, Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Debussy, and other composers, as well as concert performances of the following operas: "The Marriage of Figaro" and "The Magic Flute" by Mozart, "La Traviata" by Verdi, "Carmen" by Bizet, "Porgy and Bess" by Gershwin, "Eugene Onegin", "Iolanta" and "The Queen of Spades" by Tchaikovsky.

The orchestra became widely known outside the country. It performed in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, France, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and China. leninmemorial.ru

The Symphony Orchestra of the Ural State Conservatoire named after M.P. Mussorgsky is one of the oldest orchestras of the Urals. The orchestra is formed of the Сonservatoire students (Department of Orchestral String Instruments and Department of Orchestral Wind and Percussion Instruments.)

An outstanding conductor and teacher, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, Professor Mark Paverman was at the origin of the orchestra. At different times the orchestra was conducted by different conductors: Honored Artist of the RSFSR Alexander Fridlender, People’s Artists of the RSFSR Yevgeny Kolobov and Wolf Gorelik, Honored Art Worker of Kazakhstan Timur Mynbayev, Honored Art Workers of Russia Alexey Lyudmilin and Boris Osipov, Honored Artists of Russia Vladimir Vishnevskiy, Vladimir Zavadskiy and Alexey Dorkin, the winner of the international competition Enkhe, Ural Philharmonic Orchestra conductor, Professor Vyacheslav Kartashov.

Throughout its history the orchestra had the honour to accompany such soloists as People's Artist of the USSR Vera Bayeva, People's Artists of Russia Nikolai Golyshev, Natalia Pankova, Shaukat Amirov, the Honored Artist of Russia Valery Shkarupa, Honored Artists of the RSFSR Lev Mirchin, Hertz Tsomyc, Sergey Peshkov, and others. Of particular note is regular fruitful cooperation between the orchestra and the students’ choir (directed by Professor Vladimir Zavadsky.)

The orchestra is not only a good practice for novice musicians. It is also a place to practice the skills for the students who study orchestra and chorus conducting, composition and musical sound-producing.

Since 2017 the orchestra has been headed by a Conservatoire graduate and teacher Andrey Kolyasnikov.

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