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IVAN SHINKAREV (b. 1995) represents the St. Petersburg Conducting School, he is a member of the Russian Musical Union and a grant holder of the Gartow Foundation (2020, Germany).
Ivan got his early musical education as a violinist and a vocalist. He finished the Choral Conducting Faculty of the Sverdlovsk P. I. Tchaikovsky Music College where he studied conducting with Anatoly Pavkin. In 2021 Ivan graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory with the specialist degree in opera and orchestral conducting. His Professor there was Alexander Polishchuk, a student and assistant of the legendary Ilya Musin. Two years later, Ivan completed the post graduate assistantship in Conducting the opera and symphony orchestra under national artist of the USSR, Professor Yuri Simonov. Ivan Shinkarev presented operas "Iolanta", "Eugene Onegin", "La Traviata" and "The Dawns Here are Quiet" (director and project manager Andrey Tsvetkov-Tolbin) as the graduation works in the theater of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Opera Studio of the Ippolitov-Ivanov Institute.
Ivan plays violin alongside with a harpsichord, also composes music and creates orchestrations. He participated in master classes by Riccardo Muti, Shan Edwards, Peter Stark, Nicolás Pasquet, Osvaldo Ferreira, Dorian Wilson, Vladimir Fedoseev, Alexander Solovyov, Mikhail Shekhtman. Ivan assisted Mikhail Tatarnikov, Fyodor Lednev, Vladimir Lande, Mikhail Sinkevich, Dmitry Vasiliev and Yuri Medyanik. The conductor’s repertoire includes such operas, as "La Traviata" and "Macbeth", G. Verdi, "Rita" by G. Donizetti, "Eugene Onegin", "The Queen of Spades" and "Iolanta" by P. Tchaikovsky, "The Dawns Here are Quiet" by K. Molchanov, "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" and the operetta "Moscow—Cheryomushki" by D. Shostakovich, the ballets "The Nutcracker" and "Swan Lake".
As a student, in 2017 Ivan Shinkarev organized the St. Petersburg Youth Symphony Orchestra “CreatoSymphony”, consisting of students and postgraduate students of the Conservatory. Under his leadership, the orchestra regularly performs classical and modern academic music at the best concert halls of St. Petersburg. As a part of the "Mariinsky — for Children" Festival, the orchestra conducted by Ivan staged the operas “The Little Prince” (2017) and “The Boys” (2020-2021) by composer Sergei Pleshak at the Mariinsky Theatre. Also in 2018, together with director Dmitry Otyakovsky, Ivan staged Mozart's opera "Bastien and Bastienne" at the State Hermitage Theater.
From 2019 to 2021 Ivan — an interning conductor of Tchaikovsky Symphony orchestra of Moscow (artistic director and chief conductor, national artist of the USSR Vladimir Fedoseyev).
From 2021 to 2024 — a senior lecturer in the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Institute of Music, Theater and Choreography, Saint Petersburg.
Since December 2023 — conductor in the Tyumen Philharmonic Orchestra.
He performs with the Academic Symphony orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, The Tchaikovsky Symphony orchestra of Moscow, The Tyumen Philharmonic Orchestra, The Samara Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic for Children and Youth, the St. Petersburg State Governor's Symphony orchestra, the Grand Symphony orchestra and Chorus of the Sverdlovsk Music School (Yekaterinburg), the Musical Theater of the Republic of Karelia (Petrozavodsk), the Smolensk Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Opera and Ballet Theater of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, The MolOt-Ensemble, The Festival Orchestra of the MolOt-summer academy, the Youth symphony orchestra «CreatoSymphony» and the Studio for New Music (Moscow).
In November 2021, he made his debut in the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg State Philharmonic with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Earlier, in May 2018, Ivan presented there a number of premieres by St. Petersburg composers: Nastasia Khrushcheva, Artur Zobnin and Oleg Gudachev.
Ivan got his early musical education as a violinist and a vocalist. He finished the Choral Conducting Faculty of the Sverdlovsk P. I. Tchaikovsky Music College where he studied conducting with Anatoly Pavkin. In 2021 Ivan graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory with the specialist degree in opera and orchestral conducting. His Professor there was Alexander Polishchuk, a student and assistant of the legendary Ilya Musin. Two years later, Ivan completed the post graduate assistantship in Conducting the opera and symphony orchestra under national artist of the USSR, Professor Yuri Simonov. Ivan Shinkarev presented operas "Iolanta", "Eugene Onegin", "La Traviata" and "The Dawns Here are Quiet" (director and project manager Andrey Tsvetkov-Tolbin) as the graduation works in the theater of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Opera Studio of the Ippolitov-Ivanov Institute.
Ivan plays violin alongside with a harpsichord, also composes music and creates orchestrations. He participated in master classes by Riccardo Muti, Shan Edwards, Peter Stark, Nicolás Pasquet, Osvaldo Ferreira, Dorian Wilson, Vladimir Fedoseev, Alexander Solovyov, Mikhail Shekhtman. Ivan assisted Mikhail Tatarnikov, Fyodor Lednev, Vladimir Lande, Mikhail Sinkevich, Dmitry Vasiliev and Yuri Medyanik. The conductor’s repertoire includes such operas, as "La Traviata" and "Macbeth", G. Verdi, "Rita" by G. Donizetti, "Eugene Onegin", "The Queen of Spades" and "Iolanta" by P. Tchaikovsky, "The Dawns Here are Quiet" by K. Molchanov, "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" and the operetta "Moscow—Cheryomushki" by D. Shostakovich, the ballets "The Nutcracker" and "Swan Lake".
As a student, in 2017 Ivan Shinkarev organized the St. Petersburg Youth Symphony Orchestra “CreatoSymphony”, consisting of students and postgraduate students of the Conservatory. Under his leadership, the orchestra regularly performs classical and modern academic music at the best concert halls of St. Petersburg. As a part of the "Mariinsky — for Children" Festival, the orchestra conducted by Ivan staged the operas “The Little Prince” (2017) and “The Boys” (2020-2021) by composer Sergei Pleshak at the Mariinsky Theatre. Also in 2018, together with director Dmitry Otyakovsky, Ivan staged Mozart's opera "Bastien and Bastienne" at the State Hermitage Theater.
From 2019 to 2021 Ivan — an interning conductor of Tchaikovsky Symphony orchestra of Moscow (artistic director and chief conductor, national artist of the USSR Vladimir Fedoseyev).
From 2021 to 2024 — a senior lecturer in the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Institute of Music, Theater and Choreography, Saint Petersburg.
Since December 2023 — conductor in the Tyumen Philharmonic Orchestra.
He performs with the Academic Symphony orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, The Tchaikovsky Symphony orchestra of Moscow, The Tyumen Philharmonic Orchestra, The Samara Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic for Children and Youth, the St. Petersburg State Governor's Symphony orchestra, the Grand Symphony orchestra and Chorus of the Sverdlovsk Music School (Yekaterinburg), the Musical Theater of the Republic of Karelia (Petrozavodsk), the Smolensk Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Opera and Ballet Theater of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, The MolOt-Ensemble, The Festival Orchestra of the MolOt-summer academy, the Youth symphony orchestra «CreatoSymphony» and the Studio for New Music (Moscow).
In November 2021, he made his debut in the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg State Philharmonic with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Earlier, in May 2018, Ivan presented there a number of premieres by St. Petersburg composers: Nastasia Khrushcheva, Artur Zobnin and Oleg Gudachev.