Alexander Znamenskiy

Artistic Director and Conductor

Alexander Znamenskiy is an Austrian conductor and violist with a particular focus on Viennese Classicism, opera, and early and contemporary music. His artistic work combines stylistic versatility with a pronounced sense of musical precision, historically informed performance practice, and the connection between concert life and music theatre.

His recent engagements include productions at the Neue Oper Wien, where he worked as musical assistant and conductor on Manfred Trojahn's Eurydice – Die Liebenden, blind (2025) and Pascal Dusapin's Passion (2024). At the Theater an der Wien, he served in 2025 as prompter (Maestro suggeritore) for Miroslav Srnka's opera Voice Killer; in the 2026/27 season he will be engaged there as assistant to the musical direction of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel. At the Vienna State Opera, he was responsible for the musical preparation of Peter Eötvös' Tri Sestri and took on coaching, conducting and orchestral duties. At the Wiener Volkstheater, he conducted the production of MALINA, after Ingeborg Bachmann.

As a concert conductor, Znamenskiy made his debut with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. Since 2022, he has regularly conducted performances of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid.

As a violist and chamber musician, he has also appeared at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Salzburg Festival and the Schubertiade Hohenems. He was principal violist of the Orquestra Sinfónica Casa da Música Porto and has performed with ensembles such as the Concentus Musicus Wien and the Quasars Ensemble. He is also a member of the Lerchenfeld Quartet, heard regularly in Vienna's Annakirche. As a chamber musician, he co-founded the Razumovsky Quartet and has worked with artists including Elisabeth Leonskaja, Paul Gulda and Jean-Bernard Pommier. This long-standing experience as a violist and chamber musician forms an essential foundation for his work with orchestras and shapes his approach to tonal balance, chamber-musical communication and stylistic differentiation.

As artistic director of the Camerata Classica, he is responsible for the development of the ensemble's artistic profile, its programming, and its interpretative direction. At the heart of his work lies the connection between historically informed engagement with the repertoire, careful rehearsal work, and a vibrant, present-day interpretation.