Education
St. Petersburg State Conservatory conducting 1997-2000
St. Hugh's College, Oxford University B.A. Hons Music 1989-1993
Teachers
Ilya Musin 1997 - 1999
Leonid Korchmar 1999-2000
Scholarships / Awards
Laszlo Heltay Conducting Bursary Brighton Festival Chorus 1996-1997
Organ Fellowship St. Thomas' Church, Fifth Avenue, New York 1992
Organ Scholarship St. Hugh's College, Oxford 1989-1993
Artistic Director
Borås Symphony Orchestra, Sweden 2004-
Opera & Ballet - Guest Conductor
Danish Royal Ballet
Giselle January 2010 Tour of Denmark
Bampton Classical Opera
Le Pescatrici (Bampton, St. John's Smith Square - London Mozart Players)
Pimlico Opera / Grange Park Opera
Guest Conductor 2008 Grange Park 'Rising Stars' Falstaff
Guest Conductor 2008 Pimlico Opera Tour Falstaff
Guest Conductor 2007 Autumn Tour Bellini I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Royal Ballet, Covent Garden
Guest Conductor May 2008 New Works at the Linbury May
Guest / Cover Conductor 2008-9 (see future engagements)
Cover Conductor 2007-2008 Romeo & Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, L'apres midi d'un Faune, A month in the country, The Nutcracker, Isadora
Birmingham Royal Ballet
Guest Conductor
October / November 2009 Triple Bill
October / November 2008 Beauty and the Beast
March / April 2009 Enigma, Serenade, Still Life in a Penguin Cafe
English National Ballet
Guest Conductor - Nutcracker Colliseum, London December 18th, 26th
Guest Conductor Alice in Wonderland - 2006-7 Oxford, Cardiff
Guest Conductor The Canterville Ghost May 29 - 30 The Wimbledon Theatre
Rambert Dance Company
Stand and Stare, Constant Speed, Lady into Fox November 2006
English Touring Opera
A Midsummer Night's Dream April - May 2004
Jonköping Sinfonietta
Operation Kärleken - Malborg-Ward March 2002
Pegasus Opera
Opera Gala Concert, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford November 2001
London City Opera
Carmen USA Tour January - April 2001
British Youth Opera
Il Barbiere di Siviglia September 1999
European Chamber Opera
Die Zauberflöte June 1997
Thursford Christmas Spectacular Guest Conductor 2004-2005
Morely College, Opera Course Guest Conductor December 2008
Music Staff / Chorus Master
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Prompter 2005-
Il Turco in Italia La Boheme Tosca Faust
Off-stage conductor 2007-10
L'elisir d'amore Don Carlo Lulu I Capuleti e i Montecchi
The Slippers Don Carlo Aida
Opera Holland Park
Chorus Master 2006 Pique Dame
Chorus Master 2007
Nabucco Jenufa Il Barbiere di Siviglia Lakme La Traviata L'amore dei tre Re
Gothenburg Opera, Sweden
2002-2004 Rehearsal Conductor / Prompter
2001-2002 Chorus Master
Symphonic Conducting - Guest Conductor
Oxford Chamber Orchestra 2001-2006
Kaliningrad Chamber Orchestra 2002
Novgorod String Orchestra 2002
Hermitage State Chamber Orchestra 2001
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra 2000
Choral Conducting
St. Bartholomew's Hospital Choral Society Chorus / Guest Conductor 2006-8
Brighton Festival Chorus Guest Chorus Master 2007-
Borås Symphony Chorus Guest Conductor 2005
Borås Kören Guest Conductor 2004
Korona Kören, Gothenburg Guest Conductor 2003
European Medical Students Chorus Guest Conductor 1996
University College London Chamber Choir Guest Conductor 1995-1997
St. Stephen's Church, Walbrook Organist / Director of Music 1995-1997 St. Mary's Church, Bryanston Square Organist / Director of Music 1993-1997