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Igor Yu. Andryushin

Lecturer of Opera and Symphony Conducting Department

Андрюшин Игорь Юрьевич

Biography

Born in 1987.

From 2019 to 2022 he served as trainee conductor in the «Young Conductors’ Studio of the Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra» under its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, People’s Artist of the USSR, Professor Vladimir I. Fedoseyev.

In the 2013–2014 season he was guest conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Brașov Philharmonic (Romania).

From 2012 to 2015 he taught conducting at the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts and, in the 2014–2015 season, was conductor of the University Chamber Orchestra.

Since 2010 he has taught the course «Conducting, Orchestration, and Score Reading» and has led the big band and the Suvorov military school orchestra at the Moscow Military Music School named after Lieutenant‑General V. M. Khalilov. During his tenure the brass band and big band of the School have repeatedly become laureates of Russian and international music competitions, and students of his conducting class have won prizes at all‑Russian conducting competitions and the School’s internal conducting competition.

Since 2023 he has been a member of the Opera and Symphonic Conducting Department and conductor of the symphony orchestra of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.

He is a laureate of the 1st All‑Russian Conductors’ Competition named after Veronika Dudarova and the 2nd International Conductors’ Competition named after V. M. Khalilov, and has been an active participant in numerous conducting masterclasses in Russia and abroad.

He completed the assistant‑traineeship at the Opera and Symphonic Conducting Department of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in the class of Honoured Artist of Russia, State Prize laureate, Professor Vladimir P. Ziva, and graduated in Conducting from the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts in the class of Professor, Candidate of Arts Aleksandr V. Chernykh.

He has performed with many ensembles, including the Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra, the Brașov Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (Romania), the State Philharmonic Orchestra in Bacău (Romania), the State Hermitage Orchestra (St Petersburg), the Smolensk Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Russian Ministry of Defence Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra and the Y. A. Speransky Opera Studio Orchestra of the Gnesin Academy, the Central Military Band of the Russian Ministry of Defence, the State Wind Orchestra of Russia (now the State Kremlin Orchestra of Russia), the Moscow Region Governor’s Orchestra, and the Yaroslavl Municipal Wind Orchestra.

He has collaborated with many distinguished musicians, among them People’s Artists of Russia Igor Butman (tenor saxophone), Lyudmila Safonova (voice), and Yuri Rozum (piano); Honoured Artist of the RSFSR Sergei Kravchenko (violin); Honoured Artist of Russia Nina Shatskaya (voice); clarinettist and alto saxophonist Ivan Korpan; soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre Young Artists Opera Program Nikolai Zemlyansky and Alexander Murashev; and participants of the television project «The Voice» Alexei Lysenko, Polina Konkina, Nicole‑Marie Knaus, Sofia Onopchenko, and others.

In 2023 he made his debut at the Y. A. Speransky Opera Studio Theatre in a production of Mozart’s «Der Schauspieldirektor» («The Impresario») and conducted a concert performance of Rachmaninov’s opera «Aleko».

In 2018 and 2019 in Kaliningrad he was Music Director and conductor of the official opening ceremony of the «Kaliningrad» football stadium and of the international football match between the national teams of Russia and Kazakhstan, where he led a combined orchestra.

In 2018, as part of the «Suvorov Days in Switzerland» tour, he appeared on the stage of the Lausanne Opera House.

He has been a regular participant in the All‑Russian Orchestral and Choral Assemblies, the 3rd «Baltic open» Conductors’ Forum (Riga, Latvia, 2011), the «Nordic Wind Band Conference» (Helsinki, Finland, 2014), the «World Wind Band Festival» (Lucerne, Switzerland, 2013, 2017), the «Spasskaya Tower» International Military Music Festival (Moscow), the V. I. Agapkin and I. A. Shatrov International Wind Orchestra Festival (Tambov, 2014, 2018), «Fanfares of the Tula Kremlin» (Tula, 2021), «Amur Waves» (Khabarovsk, 2021), and «Fanfares in the Centre of Asia» (Kyzyl, Tuva Republic, 2021).

As a conductor he has toured in Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, and Latvia, as well as in many Russian cities, including St Petersburg, Smolensk, Yaroslavl, Tambov, Kaliningrad, Khabarovsk, and Kyzyl, and throughout the Moscow Region.