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Vladimir Baidov

Vladimir Baidov, the Artistic Director of the Classic-Avantgarde Soloists Ensemble, was born in 1956 in Vitebsk. He began his musical education by studying cello and double bass in his native town. In 1982 he graduated from the Belorussian State Conservatoire, where he also studied conducting with Ciruk, Provatorov and Katayev. As a double bass player he is a prizewinner of several competitions, including First Prize at the International Double Bass Competition in Kishinyov (1988). As a member of the Belorussian State Chamber Orchestra he took part in international festivals in Bratislava, Prague, Sofia, Budapest, Lubljana, Helsinki and Oslo. In 1989 he founded the Classic-Avantgarde Soloists Ensemble. >From 1985 he has been teaching at the Belorussian State Academy of Music. Since 2001 he has served as Artistic Advisor of the Belorussian State Chamber Orchestra.
He has conducted numerous concerts with orchestras in Minsk (Belorussian Philharmonic), Rostov, Saratov, Astrakhan and Kislovodsk.