Vladimiros Symeonidis (b. 1972) is one of the most active Greek conductors of his generation. He has collaborated with numerous musical ensembles in Greece and internationally, including the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra (R.S.O. Wien), the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the State Orchestras of Athens and Thessaloniki, and contemporary music ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, die reihe, dissonArt, and Ergon Ensemble. He has also worked with the Thessaloniki Municipal Symphony Orchestra, the Patras Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Utrecht Conservatory, the Bulgarian National Philharmonic Choir, Sinfonietta Beograd, the Vienna Boys' Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben), the Camerata – Friends of Music Orchestra, the Athens Municipal Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Choir of Kosovo, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, and the choir of the Plovdiv Opera. Additionally, he has collaborated with distinguished figures of the global music scene, including Cheryl Studer, Richard Galliano, Martin Haselböck, Cyprien Katsaris, Nils Landgren, Simon Shaheen, Mikis Theodorakis, and Olli Kortekangas, among others.

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He has conducted opera and ballet productions at the Greek National Opera and has recorded for both Greek and Austrian radio, as well as for the international record label NAXOS.

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2006 to 2011 Maestro Symeonidis has been appointed Principal Conductor of the Greek National Radio Symphony Orchestra (ERT).

From 2012 to 2020, he founded and conducted the Contra Tempo Chamber Orchestra.

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Between 2021 and 2024, he worked on the restoration of Galateia (1912), an opera by Aimilios Riadis, which was left incomplete in terms of orchestration. He orchestrated the first and third acts, which the composer had left in particell  form, and conducted the world premiere of the opera in May 2024—112 years after its composition—with the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra and the choir of the Plovdiv State Opera.

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His dedication to contemporary music is reflected in the numerous world premieres (over 160) of works by Greek and international composers.

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He serves as Associate Professor at the School of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and he also teaches Orchestral Conducting at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki.

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He is a graduate of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, holding a Mag. Artium degree in both Orchestral Conducting and Composition, as well as of the Department of Music Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His teachers include Giannis Adamidis (piano, choral conducting), Christos Samaras (advanced music theory), Uroš Lajovic (orchestral conducting), Erich Urbanner (composition), and Ertuğrul Sevsay (orchestration).