The Principal Conductor of Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, Konstantin Chudovsky, has been named chief conductor at the Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre in Russia. Chudovsky was born in 1982 in Moscow. He studied at the Gnesin State Musical College as well as at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. He lives in Vienna with his wife, soprano Elizaveta Chudovskaya, and their three children.