Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Siberian State Symphony Orchestra. Chief guest conductor of the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra (2008−2019). Music director and conductor of the Washington Soloists Chamber Orchestra, chief conductor and artistic director of the COSMIC Symphony Orchestra. Vladimir Lande graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory in oboe class. In 1989 he moved to the United States, where he studied conducting for eight years with the famous Peabody Institute Professor Gustav Mayer. For eighteen years he worked at the Baltimore Opera House and conducted other orchestras: the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Teatro Colón (Argentina), the Rome Symphony Orchestra (Italy), the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (USA), the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and many others. Among the maestro’s vast number of CDs recorded are Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished) and Symphony No. 9 (Brilliant Classic), music by contemporary composer James Aickman, and a series of symphonies by Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Maestro Lande has worked with such famous soloists as H. Khan, O. Kern, D. Kouzov, V. Repin, A. Knyazev, A. Gavrilov, N. Lugansky, D. Matsuev, A. Gugnin, K. Short, R Fleming, H. Gerzmava, S. Costello and many others.