Alan Buribayev is a Kazakh conductor, the son of a cellist/conductor father and a pianist mother. He studied violin and conducting at the Kazakh National Conservatory in Almaty. He was later a conducting student of Uros Lajovic in Vienna. Buribayev won prizes in the Lovro von Matacic Conducting Competition in Zagreb and in the Antonio Pedrotti Competition in 2001. Buribayev began his tenure as Principal Conductor of the Astana Symphony Orchestra, Kazakhstan, in March 2003, and had concluded his tenure by 2007. From 2004 to 2007, Buribayev was General Musikdirektor of the Meiningen Theatre, Germany. He became Principal Conductor of the Norrk�ping Symphony Orchestra in the 2007-2008 season, with an initial contract through 2010. He is scheduled to conclude his Norrk�ping tenure in May 2011. He became chief conductor of Het Brabants Orkest in the Netherlands with the 2008-2009 season. Buribayev is scheduled to conclude his chief conductorship of Het Brabants Orkest in 2012. In May 2009, Buribayev was named the next Principal Conductor of the RT� National Symphony Orchestra, effective as of September 2010, with an initial contract of 3 years. [More at Wikipedia]

May 30th, 1979 in Almaty (Age 44)