Baklan Oleksii Fedorovych (* 25 May 1961, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian conductor. Honoured Artist of Ukraine (2001), People's Artist of Ukraine (2009).
He comes from the family of soloists of the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Ukrainian SSR Varvara Potapova and Fyodor Baklan. Graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory (1987), class of symphony conducting under S. Turchak. Diploma winner of the First International S. Lyfar Ballet Competition (Kyiv, 1994).
Since 1987 he has been conductor of the National Opera of Ukraine: ballet performances of A. Adan's Giselle, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty by P. Tchaikovsky, Bayadereka, Don Quixote, Pahita by L. Minkus. Minkus, Chopiniana, Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet by S. Prokofiev, Spartacus by A. Khachaturian, The Legend of Love by A. Melikov, Cipollino by K. Khachaturian, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by B. Pavlovsky. Conductor-director of ballets "The Little Mermaid" by O. Kostin (1993), "Coppélia" by L. Delibes (1997), "The Viennese Waltz" to music by J. Strauss (2001), "Corsair" by A. Adan (2002).
From 1995 to 2008 he was the chief conductor, and from 2008 to 2012 - artistic director of the Kyiv Academy of Music for Children and Youth. Conductor-director of Mozart's Requiem, Beethoven's IX Symphony, Rossini's Stabat Mater (all in 1998), ballets Petryk and the Wolf to music by Prokofiev (1999), Bayaderkas. "Giselle by A. Adan (2000), Swan Lake by P. Tchaikovsky (2001), Romeo and Juliet by S. Prokofiev (2002), opera Rigoletto by G. Verdi (1999), literary and musical composition Forest Song to music by M. Skorzlsky (2001), scenes from the cantata Carmina Burana by K. Orff (2002). He is the author of the musical composition of the new version of the ballet "Lilea" by K. Dankevych (2003, choreographer - post G. Kovtun) and the musical version of the ballet "The Marriage of Figaro" to music by W. A. Mozart (2006, post V. Yaremenko).
Since 1990 he has been conducting concerts at the Kyiv Choreographic School. He has staged a number of ballet performances at the International Ballet Ochi (Nagoya, Japan) and the Slovenian National Opera (Maribor, Slovenia). He has toured Germany, France, Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, Portugal, South Korea, Japan, and South America.
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