Conductor.

Vladimir Altschuler was born in 1946 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). He graduated from the Leningrad State Conservatoire in 1970 as a violist in the class of professor Yurij Kramarov and as an opera/symphony conductor in 1983 in the class of professor Alexander Dmitriyev.

Mr. Altschuler began playing viola in the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia in 1969. In 1982 he was appointed as the principal of the viola group in this orchestra.
Vladimir Altschuler was the founder of the String Quartet of the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonia. During this time, he was the professor of the Quartet classes in the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire and headed the Chamber Orchestra of the Conservatoire in 1984-1989.

Vladimir Altschuler has conducted in the concert halls of the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonia, the Academic Capella and the Conservatoire. He also conducted symphony concerts in Moscow, Tomsk, Gorkiy, Saratov, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg (former Sverdlovsk), etc. He also performed with chamber and symphony orchestras in Germany, Spain, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Greece, Norway, Turkey, Finland, The Republic of Korea, Switzerland, and Ireland.
Vladimir Altschuler has given premieres of a number works by contemporary Russian composers - Ustvoiskaya, Falik, Tsitovich, Agababov, Asiamazov, Bibik, etc. He also made a number of records, radio and TV broadcasts. Vladimir Altschuler has performed with many famous Russian musicians like V. Tretiakov, L. Berman, G. Sokolov, N. Gutman, B. Gutnikov, V. Kraynev, etc. and with many international musicians such as G. Karr, M. Laforet, M. O Rourke, M. O Connor, N. Robson, A. Schmidt.