Sergey Galaktionov

Sergey Galaktionov: Born in Russia, he started studying violin and piano at only four years old attending the Central Special Music School of the Moscow Conservatory.

He studied conducting with Vladimir Ponkin (G. Rozdestvensky School). In 1993, he moved in Italy to Milan to continue his artistic career. In 1994, he met Claudio Abbado who led him to a collaboration in the following years with orchestras like MJO, Mahler Chamber and Luzern Festival Orchestra. In his artistic career he has collaborated with other great conductors: Solti, Maazel, Haiting, Barenboim, Mazur, Hogwood, Pinnock, Zedda, Noseda, Gatti, Luisi, Luisotti and many others. Since 2004, he is Leader Concertmaster at the Teatro Regio in Turin. He has conducted several programs for chamber orchestra which have seen him as a great protagonist in the season of the Sala Verdi in Milan with the Orchestra Guido Cantelli, with Milano Classica at Palazzina Liberty, with TRT Orchestra at Teatro Regio in Turin and Coliseo in Buenos Aires, with Filarmonica di Gran Canaria in Las Palmas (Auditorium of Alfredo Kraus). He collaborated with Antonio Pappano in the new production of Verdi's "Forza del Destino" at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. In the 2018-2019 season with Teatro Regio di Torino he conducted "L'Elisir d'Amore" by G. Donizetti.