She graduated from the Rimsky–Korsakov Music College in Choir Conducting and Solo Singing, and from the Rimsky–Korsakov Conservatoire of St. Petersburg in Solo Singing (2000, with Prof. E. Perlasova). Since 1997, Ms. Shkirtil was engaged in performances of the Opera and Ballet Theater of St. Petersburg Conservatoire singing Nurse and Larina in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Siebel and Martha in Gounod’s Faust, Lyubasha in Rimsky–Korsakov’s Czar’s Bride, and Countess and Pauline in The Queen of Spades and many others. Lyudmila Shkirtil concertizes much, performing opera parts, cantatas and oratorios with orchestras of several cities of Russia and Europe. She has appeared with chamber programs at the best venues of St. Petersburg and abroad (in France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Spain, the United States and Japan). Lyudmila Shkirtil has recorded several CDs for Delos (USA, Complete Vocal Compositions by D. Shostakovich and Complete Songs and Romances by M. Glinka) and Northern Flowers (Russia, Complete Songs and Romances by A. Glazunov, Our Ladys Rejoicing in Sorrow by D. Smirnov and vocal cycles by G. Sviridov and B. Tchaikovsky).