Vitali Alekseenok

Vitali Alekseenok, born in Belarus in 1991, has been conductor and artistic director of the Abaco Symphony Orchestra of the University of Munich since 2017. As a prize winner of the MDR Conducting Competition 2018, he has already conducted the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra Jena, the Staatskapelle Weimar and many more. In August 2020, he traveled to Minsk to take part in the elections there. After Lukashenka claimed victory in the elections, Vitali Alekseenok decided to stay in Minsk for several weeks to support the protests and strikes on the ground.