Oleg Alexeyev

During twenty years of playing in professional orchestras, Oleg has performed both ancient and modern music as well as standard orchestral repertoire. He has performed under conductors such as G Rozdestvensky, Kurt Mazur, Yehudi Menuhin, D Kitaenko, V Gergeiv, Zubin Mehta, and many more.

After attending Music Schools in Leningrad and Moscow, Oleg specialised in studying viola performance first at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory Music College in Moscow and then at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he was Principal Violist for the Moscow Conservatory Chamber Orchestra, studying under Professor M Terian (viola), Professor T Alikhanov (chamber ensembles) and Professor R Davidian (string quartet).

Oleg joined the USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra for ten years under the illustrious baton of Rozdestvensky. In an unprecedented musical alliance in 1988 this orchestra combined with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta in a memorable concert in Moscow where 240 musicians appeared on stage at the same time to perform Schostakovitch’s Fifth Symphony and the Symphony Fantastique by Berlioz. This experience led to Oleg developing continuing friendships with members of the viola section of the NYPO. During the 1980’s Oleg was also Principal Violist of the Chamber Orchestra of Russia Music Society.

He then took up a State Contract at the Damascus Conservatoire as Professor of Viola, Chamber Music and Quartets and was Principal Violist of the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra.

Oleg moved to South Africa in 1994 to join the erstwhile Cape Town Symphony Orchestra and is currently in demand on the Cape Town popular and jazz music scene as well as maintaining his solo, orchestral and chamber music involvement. Currently in production to be released on CD is a collection of classical duos for violin and viola (Stamitz, M & J Haydn, Mozart etc) with his violinist wife, Farida Bacharova.

Oleg plays a 430mm Italian viola made by Pietro Johannes Mantegatia in Milano in 1783.

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	During twenty years of playing in professional orchestras, Oleg has performed both ancient and modern music as well as standard orchestral repertoire. He has performed under conductors such as G Rozdestvensky, Kurt Mazur, Yehudi Menuhin, D Kitaenko, V Gergeiv, Zubin Mehta, and many more. After attending Music Schools in Leningrad and Moscow, Oleg specialised in studying viola performance first at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory Music College in Moscow and then at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he was Principal Violist for the Moscow Conservatory Chamber Orchestra, studying under Professor M Terian (viola), Professor T Alikhanov (chamber ensembles) and Professor R Davidian (string quartet). Oleg joined the USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra for ten years under the illustrious baton of Rozdestvensky. In an unprecedented musical alliance in 1988 this orchestra combined with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta in a memorable concert in Moscow where 240 musicians appeared on stage at the same time to perform Schostakovitch’s Fifth Symphony and the Symphony Fantastique by Berlioz. This experience led to Oleg developing continuing friendships with members of the viola section of the NYPO. During the 1980’s Oleg was also Principal Violist of the Chamber Orchestra of Russia Music Society. He then took up a State Contract at the Damascus Conservatoire as Professor of Viola, Chamber Music and Quartets and was Principal Violist of the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra. Oleg moved to South Africa in 1994 to join the erstwhile Cape Town Symphony Orchestra and is currently in demand on the Cape Town popular and jazz music scene as well as maintaining his solo, orchestral and chamber music involvement. Currently in production to be released on CD is a collection of classical duos for violin and viola (Stamitz, M & J Haydn, Mozart etc) with his violinist wife, Farida Bacharova. Oleg plays a 430mm Italian viola made by Pietro Johannes Mantegatia in Milano in 1783.