Born in Moscow, USSR (now Russia); son of conductor Nikolai P. Anossov (1900-62) and singer Natalya P. Rozhdestvenskaya, whose name he adopted. He studied piano with Lev N. Oborin and orchestral direction with his father at the Moscow Conservatory. He made his debut at the Bolshoi Theatre at the age of twenty with a performance of "The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky. He spent ten years at the Bolshoi as assistant to Yuri Fayev and conducted several ballets. In 1961 he was appointed as artistic director of the Soviet Radio Symphony Orchestra, where he stayed until 1974 and from 1964 to 1970 he was simultaneously principal conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre. In 1972, he took over as musical director of the Moscow Chamber Opera. From 1974 to 1977 he was artistic director of the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, subsequently going to London as principal conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1978-81) and then to Vienna as principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra (1981-83). While in Vienna, he also taught orchestral direction at the Conservatory. In 1982 he was appointed as director of the newly-founded Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Ministry of Education and Arts. From 1987 he taught orchestral direction at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. In 1991 he took over as conductor of the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1994 he became chairman of the artistic committee of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre. Rozhdestvensky is considered today as one of the leading interpreters of Russian music. He is married to pianist Viktoria Postnikova.  Nominated for Music Scoring Awards (Scoring of a Musical Picture) 1958: THE BOLSHOI BALLET (w. Yuri Faier) 1 nomination