Born in the town of Shuya, Ivanovo Region. In 2006 he graduated with honours from the Theory Department of the Ivanovo Music College, and in 2011 from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music with a degree in Composition (class of Honoured Art Worker of Russia, Professor Gennady Vladimirovich Suvorov). In 2014 he completed with honours the postgraduate programme at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in Musical Art (research supervisor: Doctor of Art History, Professor Vera Borisovna Valkova).
From 2011 to 2013 he worked as methodologist and teacher at the V. M. Blazhevich Moscow State Children’s Music School, and from 2013 to 2024 as senior methodologist, Head of the Methodological Office, and teacher at the State College of Wind Art in Moscow (renamed the Moscow State Academy of Jazz in 2019).
Since 2020 he has taught in the Orchestral Conducting Department of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music; since 2024 he has headed the Academy’s Department of Social and Educational Work, and since 2025 has been Senior Lecturer in the Orchestral Conducting Department.
He is a member of the International Union of Musical Figures and a graduate of the “Captains of Culture” leadership programme at the Meganom Academy of Creative Industries (2025).
Awards and titles:
- laureate of the Moscow Government Prize (2014); laureate of the Dmitri Shostakovich All‑Russian Composers’ Competition (St Petersburg, 2007);
- laureate of the International Competition “Romanticism: Origins and Horizons” (Moscow, 2013);
- laureate of the First All‑Russian Young Composers’ Competition “Partitura” (Moscow, 2020);
- laureate of the 2nd All‑Russian Professional Skills Competition for Young Wind and Percussion Teachers “Vivat, Musician!” (First Prize in the Best Orchestration category and First Prize in the Best Musical Work category, 2024).
Decorations:
- Medal of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation “For Participation in the Victory Day Military Parade” (2011);
- medal “Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov” for contributions to Russia’s patriotic traditions (2011);
- Badge of Honour “300 Years of the Military Band Service of Russia” (2011);
- commemorative medal “85 Years of Civil Defence” (2017);
- letter of thanks from the Governor of Novosibirsk Region (2025).
He has taken part in the Contemporary Opera Laboratory (within the “Open Stage” project, Moscow, 2013) and in the “koOPERAtsiya” young composers’ and playwrights’ laboratory (Moscow, 2017).
Selected works by Dmitry Suvorov include:
- “Oborona” (“The Defence”), an opera to a libretto by Dana Sideros, premiered at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich‑Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre in 2017 (director: Yekaterina Vasilieva, conductor: Oleg Pajberdin);
- “Marina”, a mono‑opera to a libretto by Dmitry Suvorov based on the diary writings of Marina Tsvetaeva, premiered at the Open Stage Theatre in 2013 (director: Yekaterina Vasilieva, conductor: Yevgeny Afanasyev);
- “Philosophy of Nature”, vocal cycle for high voice and symphony orchestra on poems by Nikolai Zabolotsky;
- Concertino for trumpet and symphony orchestra;
- two string quartets;
- “Tales”, suite for flute, oboe, and clarinet;
- sonata for violin and piano;
- various vocal and piano works.
His compositions have been performed on numerous occasions in concert halls in Moscow, St Petersburg, Ivanovo, Tver, Ufa, and Khanty‑Mansiysk.
As an arranger he collaborates with the Central Military Band of the Russian Ministry of Defence, the Exemplary Band of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, the symphony orchestra of the “Novaya opera” Theatre, the Oleg Lundstrem State Jazz Orchestra, the Ugra Concert Orchestra, the Gnesin Academy Concert Wind Orchestra, the Academy of Jazz Concert Wind Orchestra, the Stupino Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the Balkan music ensemble “Exilados”, and others.
