Sergei Stadler

Sergei Stadler was born on May 20, 1962 in Leningrad. He began to study music at the age of 5.

In 1984, after a tour with the Orchestra of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic around Austria and Germany, his European fame came to the musician. In 1987, Stadler became one of the first foreign soloists to come on a tour around China after a long break. In the early 90s, the musician played with the Russian National Orchestra all of Mozart’s violin compositions in Moscow and recorded Mozart’s concerts with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

A very special event in the musician’s life was related to the arrival of the violin Niccolo Paganini in St. Petersburg in 1995. Stadler became an organizer of the two-day festival “The Paganini Violin in the Hermitage”, held with the support of the governments of St. Petersburg and Genoa and sponsored by the fashion house Trussardi.

From 1995 to present, Stadler has been organizing annual New Year’s concerts in the Concert Hall P. Tchaikovsky in Moscow. From 1998 to 2008 he was the artistic director of the International Music Festival in Perm. From 1998 to 2001 he was the Chief Conductor of the Theater of the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

Truly remarkable concerts were played in the same years in Paris: concerts by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, a concert by Tchaikovsky with E. Svetlanov. Beethoven’s chamber music was performed in castles in Germany with W. Sawallisch, Spanish music — at the Prado Museum in Madrid with G. Oppitz. In 2008, music by Bach and Mozart’s Requiem were played at the Tower of King David in Jerusalem.

Led by Sergei Stadler, L. Bernstein’s Dibbuk, O. Messiaen’s Turangalil symphony, G. Berlioz’s operas, Ivan the Terrible by G. Bizet, and Peter I by A. Gretry were performed in Russia for the first time.

In 2019, Sergei Stadler and the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra performed at the President of Russia Vladimir Putin’s meeting with the President of China Xi Jinping.

Sergei Stadler is the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, the Artistic Director of the «Petersburg-Concert» concert organization.

Since 2007, the Maestro has been teaching at the Moscow Conservatory. From 2008 to 2011 he was the Rector of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Since 2018, he has been leading an educational programme “The instrumental performance practice: violin” at Saint Petersburg State University. He holds master classes in Russia, the USA, Germany, Norway, Poland, Israel, Finland, Spain, France, Italy, Singapore, China, Portugal and other countries.