Music Directors/Principal Conductors
- Alexander Gauk (1936-1941)
- Natan Rakhlin (1941-1945)
- Konstantin Ivanov (1946-1965)
- Evgeny Svetlanov (1965-2000)
- Vassily Sinaisky (2000-2002)
- Mark Gorenstein (2002-2011)
- Vladimir Jurowski (2011–present)
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