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Education

1997-2001: Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, conducting (class of J. Fürst)
1995-1997: Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, composition and modern ensemble’s conducting (class of G. Amy)
1994-1996: Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, post-graduation in composition (class of B. Tistchenko)
1987-1994: Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, composition (class of B. Tistchenko) and conducting (classes of M. Orekhov & M. Kukushkin)


Master-classes, other studies:

1997-2001: During the studies in Paris Conservatoire, master-classes of J. Panula, J. Nelson, D. Robertson, Z. Nagy
1997-1998: Académie Européenne du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, composition of chamber opera performed during the Festival (with Ph. Manoury)
1992: Conservatoire Américain des Arts de Fontainebleau, composition (with G. Amy & Ph. Manoury)


Prizes and other distinctions:

Sept. 2006: I Prize at the Ist Cordoba International Conductors Competition
Dec. 2003: PWM Special Prize for the best interpretation of modern composition of the 7th International Gregorz Fitelberg Conducting Competition (Katowice, Poland)
Sept. 2003: Prix du Public (the Grand Prix wasn’t attributed) of the 48e International Besançon Conducting Competition
2002: I Prize of the Molinari String Quartet Composer’s Competition (Montreal, Canada)
1999: I Prize and Public Prize of the H. Dutilleux Composer’s Competition (Tour, France)
1999: I Prize of the GRAME International Composer’s Competition (Lyon, France)
1997: I Prize of the Oscar Back Foundation’s International Composer’s Competition (Amsterdam, Holland)
1994: I Prize of the ”Chain” International Composer’s Competition (Enschede, Holland)
1992: I Prize of the Hitzacker International Composer’s Competition (Hitzacker, Germany)

Grants of Gartow Foundation, Soros Foundation, Nadia et Lilli Boulanger Foundation, French Government, Pierre Souvtchinsky Foundation, Academy Villecroze
Commissions of XVIIth National Violin Competition Oskar Back, French Government, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporaine de Lyon, Aix-en-Provence Festival, CNSMD de Lyon, Ville de Chatauroux, Academia Villecroze, Usedomer Festival

Conducting Positions:

04-06.2007: Assistant Conductor "Khovanstchina", Liceu Theater, dir. Michael Boder
05-07.2006: Assistant Conductor "Madama Butterfly", Liceu Theater, dir. Yves Abel
Since 2005: Music Director of Orchestre de Chambre “Métamorphoses” (Paris)
Since 2002: Music Director of Choeurs Orchestres des Grandes Ecoles de Paris
March 2000: Assistant Conductor, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, dir. John Nelson


Guest conductor’s engagements:
Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France, Orchestre Colonne, Philharmonic Orchestra of Saint-Petersburg, Symphonic Orchestra of Saint-Petersburg’s Philharmonia, Mussorgsky Opera Theater of Saint-Petersburg, Academic State Symphony Orchestra of Saint-Petersburg, Cordoba Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Academia of Liceu Theater, National Orchestra of Crimea, Iaroslavl Philharmonic Orchestra, Atelier du XXe sciècle, Ensemble Inter-instrumental de Chateauroux, Ensemble Arcema, Ensemble de Saxophones du CNSMD de Paris, New Music Group of Saint-Petersburg…

Compositions written for and played by (in chronological order):

Ensemble Novicento (Amsterdam), Iaroslavl Philharmonic Orchestra (Russia), Danel String Quartet (Bruxelles), New Music Group (Saint-Petersburg), Atelier XXe sciècle (Lyon), Musica da Camera (Saint-Petersburg), Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Ensemble Court-Circuit (Paris), Ensemble Inter-instrumental de Chateauroux, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain (Lyon), Academie Musicale Villecroze (France), Saint-Petersburg Camerata, Molinari String Quartet (Montreal), David Guerrier…

Orchestrations:
Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France, Orchestre National de Chambre de Toulouse, Orchestre Lamoureux, Orchestre de Basse-Normandie, Academic State Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral des Hauts-de-Seine etc.

 

 

 

 

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