• Honoured Artist of Russia
• Diploma-recipient at Russia’s Golden
Mask theatre festival (2003, 2005 and 2007) in the category “Best
Male Role in Opera” for Josй (Carmen), Radames (Aida) and
Sergei (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
• Recipient of
the international Debut prize from Philip Morris
International (1999)
Joined the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre in 1998.
Graduated from the Novosibirsk State Glinka Conservatoire (2003, class
of Professor Didenko, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation).
From
1994 – 1998 he was a soloist with the Kazakh Abai Opera and Ballet
Theatre (Almaty).
Soloist with the Mariinsky theatre from 2001–2002
(St Petersburg).
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre included:
Radames (Aida)
Herman (The Queen of
Spades)
Josй (Carmen)
Tours: As part of a project by Mstislav Rostropovich he performed
the role of Sergei in Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of
Mtsensk directed by Sergio Renбn (Italy, 2000, Naples, Teatro di San Carlo;
Rome, Opera di Roma), Germany (2001, Munich), France (2001, Dijon), Argentina
(2001, Buenos Aires, Teatro Colуn).
Has also toured to Bulgaria (1999,
Varna, International Festival; Young Gypsy (Aleko)), Slovakia (2005,
Bratislava; Radames (Aida)), Italy (2005, Milan, Teatro alla Scala;
Vakula (Cherevichki)) and Mexico (2006, Mexico City, Monterrey,
Torreуn; Radames (Aida)).
Toured with the Novosibirsk State
Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre to Spain (1999, the Pretender
in Boris Godunov), Portugal (1999, Rodolfo
in La Bohиme), China (2001, Herman in The Queen
of Spades), Thailand (2000, International Festival, Rodolfo in La
Bohиme and 2004, Josй in Carmen), South Korea (2001, Cavaradossi
in Tosca; 2002, Josй in Carmen and 2003, Rodolfo
in La Bohиme, France (2009, Paris, Macduff in a co-production of
Macbeth by the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
and the Opйra National de Paris).
In 2011 at the Mikhailovsky
Theatre (St Petersburg) he performed the role of Herman
in The Queen of Spades. In 2013 at
the Yekaterinburg State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet he performed
the title role in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Otello.