Leonid Korchmar is a Soviet and Russian conductor and music educator, born on November 9, 1943. He is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania.
He studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Leo Ginzburg and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1975, where he studied conducting with Ilya Musin. He worked with orchestras in Voronezh and Sverdlovsk, and led the Saratov Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra from 1979 to 1984.
Since 1989, Korchmar has been an assistant conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. He teaches opera and symphonic conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. His students include Tugan Sokhiev, Mikhail Agrest, Christian Knapp, Anu Tali, Sasha Mäkilä, Markku Laakso, and Darrell Ang.
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