Laureate of the 6th International Competition «Contemporary Art and Education».
In 1987 he graduated from the Conducting and Choral Department of the Academic Music College at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in the class of People’s Artist of Russia Igor G. Agafonnikov.
In 1993 he completed his studies at the Opera and Symphonic Conducting Faculty of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in the class of People’s Artist of the USSR, Professor Gennady N. Rozhdestvensky, and in 1995 finished his assistant‑traineeship with the same professor.
He began his conducting career in 1991, while still a third‑year student at the Conservatory, by participating in the «Moscow Autumn» festival and staging Charles Gounod’s opera «Faust» at the State Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Komi Republic in Syktyvkar, where he continued his professional activity after graduating.
During his years at the theatre (1995–2004) he conducted the entire opera and ballet repertoire, mounted eight new productions, and for several seasons served as Music Director of the annual International Opera and Ballet Music Festival «Syktyvkar Spring» and the International Ballet Festival «Golden Swallows».
In 2004 he was invited to the Voronezh State Opera and Ballet Theatre, where between 2004 and 2009 he produced a number of works, including the ballet «Yesenin and Duncan» with original choreography by Oleg Ignatyev to Rachmaninov’s «Symphonic Dances» and Gershwin’s symphonic poem «An American in Paris». At the same time he began his teaching career at the Voronezh State Academy of Arts in the Vocal Arts Department as teacher of opera class and conductor of the opera studio.
Since 2009 he has continued his teaching work at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (orchestral conducting), and from 2010 to 2013 also taught in the M. A. Sholokhov Moscow State Humanities University (opera studio).
Over the years he has appeared as a guest conductor at the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after P. I. Tchaikovsky (in productions of «La Traviata», «Eugene Onegin», and «Don Quixote»), the Yekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre («The Queen of Spades», 2009), and has worked with the Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Ministry of Defence, the philharmonic orchestras of Belgorod, Voronezh, Saratov, and Tomsk, the Arkhangelsk Chamber Orchestra, and has taken part in various Russian opera and ballet festivals. His conducting repertoire includes around forty stage works, twenty‑two of them operas.
Published articles:
- «To Study Contemporary Theatre Both Theoretically and Practically», in: Issues of Musical Culture and Education, Issue 8;
- «Complicating the System of Opera Training for Vocalists and Partially Renewing Opera Studio Repertoires as a Demand of the Modern Labour Market», in: Proceedings of the Second International Conference «Traditions and Innovations in the Contemporary Cultural and Educational Space».
He is preparing for publication in the scholarly journal Bulletin of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia an article entitled «The Opera Studio: The Growth of an Innovative Competence‑Based Model from the Depths of the Classical Educational Tradition».
