Vassily Sinaisky is one of the most individual Russian conductor of his generation. Trained by Ilya Musin at the Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Conservatoire. In 1973 Sinaisky won the Gold Medal at the Karajan Competition in Berlin and now enjoys a thriving career in Europe, Japan and America.

Building on his work with the legendary Kondrashin and the Moscow Philharmonic, Sinaisky became the Orchestra's Music Director and Principal Conductor (1991-1996). Sinaisky appeared as the Guest conductor with the Montreal Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestras, with the San Diego Symphony, the Detroit and Atlanta Symphonies. With a great success he performed with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (Principal Guest Conductor). His engagements include concerts with the Rotterdam and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras, Orchestre National de France, with the Philharmonia, Royal Scottish National and Finnish Radio Symphony orchestras.

Sinaisky is also a distinguished opera conductor.

Vassily Sinaisky has made several recordings with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra including works by Szymanowski, Shchedrin and Balakirev.

At present Vassily Sinaisky continues to work actively with different West-European and Russian orchestras on the best concert stages, and heads the State Symphony Orchestra. He also started to work with the Russian Symphony Orchestra.

He gave concert performances of Stravinsky's "Mavra" and Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta" in Paris with the Orchestre National de France. Other productions include Tchaikovsky's "Queen of Spades" with the controversial Russian director Yuri Lyubimov in Dresden, Berlin and Karlsruhe and many notable performances with the Bolshoi and Latvian State Opera companies, including Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov" and Tchaikovsky's "Queen of Spades".