Chief conductor

South Jutland Symphony Orchestra's chief conductor is Vladimir Ziva.

Maestro Ziva graduated with honors from Leningrad Conservatory and Moscow Conservatory.

In 1984-1987 Vladimir Ziva worked as assistant conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

From 1986 to 1989 he was a professor at the orchestra department (faculty) of the Moscow Conservatory. From June 1988 he leads the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Nizhny Novogorod Philharmonic, where he directed Sakharov's Festivals. From 1990 to 1992 he also was the chief conductor of the Mousorgsky Opera and Ballet Theatre in St. Petersburg. Since 1997 he is the chief conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and since 2000 also artistic director.

At Svatoslav Rikhter's invitation, Vladimir Ziva arranged some opera and music stage plays at the Festival "December Nights" (Britten's Albert Herring and The Turn of the Screw, Rimsky Korsakov's Snow-Maiden, Bach's The Contest Between Phoebus and Pan BWV 201), in co-operation with B. Pokrovsky he staged A. Kholminov's opera Brothers Karamazov at the Moscow Chamber Music Theater, Britten's Song, on the water (Wild with passion) and L. Desyatnikov's Poor Liza at Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic, Prokofiev's Cinderella at Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theater, M. Landovsky's opera Madman, Bordin's opera Prince Igor at the Saint-Petersburg Opera and Ballet Theater named after Musorgsky.

With the Moscow Conservatory Orchestra Vladimir Ziva participated in the joint Soviet-French stage of Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande, in the Festival of Soviet music in the USA, he often performed with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chamber Theater abroad, as well as participated in concerts at the Contemporary Music Festivals "Moscow Autumn", "Leningrad Spring".

Vladimir Ziva's artistic achievements have been widely recognized in Russia, where he was honored as the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995) and the "Honoured Artist of Russia".