Russia’s newest music director is under 30

Frank Flambeau says:

He has an impressive background: “As a child he won prizes at international piano competitions in Paris, Pesaro, Kiev and Yerevan and was awarded the Young Talents of Russia federal prize in addition to becoming a grant-recipient of the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation (2007). He studied singing with Vladimir Eknadiosov, a teacher at the Rostov State Rachmaninoff Conservatoire and sang in the children’s chorus of the Rostov State Musical Theatre.

In 2010 he won the Grand Prix at the competition The Trembling Sounds of the Romance in St Petersburg, was a finalist at the International Competition for Young Opera Singers Flaviano Labò in Piacenza (Italy) and completed his studies at masterclasses at the Opera Studio of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, where he studied with Renata Scotto and Giuseppe Sabbatini.

In 2012 he made his Mariinsky Theatre debut, performing the part of Moralès in Carmen.” https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/company/opera_guest/agadzhanyan/

Plus: • Prize-winner at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow – St Petersburg, 2019; 3rd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 26th World Opera Competition Operalia (Lisbon, 2018; 2nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 3rd Ilya Musin All-Russian Young Symphony Orchestra Conductors’ Open Competition (Kostroma, 2013; 2nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 8th Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Opera Singers (St Petersburg, 2011; 1st prize)

Good for him.