Baritone

Awards:

• Prize-winner at the International Lisitsian Competition (Vladikavkaz, 2003)

• Prize-winner at the VI International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singer's Competition (St Petersburg, 2004)

• Second place at the I All-Union Nadezhda Obukhova Competition (Lipetsk, 2005)

• Prize-winner at the IV International Elena Obraztsova Young Opera Singers' Competition (St Petersburg, 2005)

• Recipient of the 2^nd prize at the international Competizione dell' Opera (Dresden, 2006)

• Recipient of the 1^st prize at the International Moniuszko Competition (Warsaw, 2007)

• Recipient of the Russian National Theater Award Golden Mask for the role of Ivan Karamazov in The Brothers Karamazov (nominated for the “Best Male Role in Opera”, 2009) / Vasily Barkhatov’s production, musical director- Valery Gergiev. Mariinsky Theater (Moscow, Russia 2009).

• Recipient of the St.Petersburg Theater Award “Zolotoy Sophit” /Golden Floodlight/ for the role of Robert in Iolanta (nominated for the “Best Male Role in  Music Performance”. M. Trelinsky production, musical director and conductor – Valery Gergiev. Mariinsky Theater (Moscow, Russia, 2009).

• Recipient of the prize “New Voices of Montblanc” within the music festival “Stars of the White Nights” (Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2009)

Worked with the following theaters:

The Metropolitan Opera, New York, USA

Opernhaus Zürich, Switzerland

Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Germany

Oper Frankfurt, Germany

Semperoper, Dresden, Germany

Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain

and others.

Appeared at the following festivals:

Festival in Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele), Austria, Gergiev Festival in Mikkeli, Finland,

La Coruña Mozart Festival), Spain, Baden-Baden Festival, Germany, Moscow Easter Festival, Russia, Music Festival “Stars of White Nights, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, and many others.

Orchestra’s performed with:

Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, New York Symphony Orchestra, New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra), and others

Venues include:

Wigmore Hall, London, Great Britain

Carnegie Hall, New-York, USA

Kennedy Center, Washington DC, USA

Barbican Hall, London, Great Britain

Lincoln Center, New York, USA

Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Moscow State Conservatory, Moscow, Russia

Appeared with the Mariinsky Opera Company:

De Doelen Concert Hall, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Germany

Lincoln Center, New York, USA

Kennedy Center, Washington DC, USA

Carnegie Hall, New-York, USA

Barbican Hall, London, Great Britain

And at the festivals:

Gergiev Festival in Mikkeli, Finland, Baden-Baden Festival, Germany, and others

Solo recitals: in Finland, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, USA, Turkey, Russia

In 2006-2008: performed as a guest soloist with the Frankfurt Opera as Tomsky in the Queen of Spades, Scarpia in Tosca; at the SemperOper in Dresden as Iago in Otello; at the Graz Opera in Austria as Renato in  Un Ballo in Maschera.

In December 2007: made a successful debut at the Metropolitan opera as Andrei in War and Peace.

In 2008: recorded a CD of the 8^th Mahler Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Valery Gergiev.

In 2008-2009: sung a role of Eugene Onegin in Eugene Onegin at La Coruna Festival in Spain, and Gryaznoy at the Tsar’s Bride at the Carnegie Hall with the New York Symphony Orchestra.

In 2009-2010: debuted as Onegin in Eugene Onegin at the Zurich Opera Theater, and also performed at the Opéra national de Lyon as Yeletsky in the Queen of Spades and Onegin in Onegin.

In 2010-2011: made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as Robert in Iolanta, at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in Monaco as Onegin in Eugene Onegin; at the Opéra National de Bordeaux as Count di Luna in Trovatore; at the Metropolitan Opera  as Shchelkalov in Boris Godunov, and Tomsky in the Queen of Spades.

Next Appearances:  

Robert in Iolanta at Teatro Real Madrid, various productions at the Zurich Opera Theater (2012-2014), new production of the opera the Legend of the Invisible city of Kitezh  and the Maiden Fevroniya at the Amsterdam Opera,  new production of Trovatore in Munich, as well as La Boheme, Faust, Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera  in 2011-2013.