Eduard Serov

[u]Soviet and Russian conductor[/u]. Honored Art Worker of of the RSFSR (1970) and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1990). Father of .
Born: September 9, 1937, Moscow, USSR

His resume includes being the one-time artistic director of the Ulyanovsk Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as that of the Leningrad Chamber Orchestra of Early and Contemporary Music / (1974-1985).
Since 1987 Eduard Serov has been Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the , and he has been Chief Conductor in Odens (Denmark).

His education includes graduating from the Moscow Sveshnikov Choral School, Gnesyny Institute and the Kiev Conservatory. Following that he took a postgraduate course at the Leningrad Conservatory under [a=Yevgeny Mravinsky], and later worked as his assistant at the .
In 1969, Serov became a prize-winner of the first International Contest of Conductors arranged by in West Berlin.