Education 

  • St. Petersburg State Conservatory symphonic 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 - Assistant/Guest Conductor           

Pimlico Opera

  • Guest Conductor 2007 Autumn Tour  Bellini I Capuleti e i Montecchi     'sympathetically conducted by Alice Farnham'   Rupert Christiansen, Telegraph

Royal Ballet, Covent Garden

  •  Cover Conductor 2007-2008  Romeo & Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, L'apres midi d'un Faune,                A month in the country

English National Ballet                                                                                                                         

  • Alice in Wonderland - Tchaikovsky / Carl Davis    November 23 - 26   The Apollo, Oxford               
  • The Canterville Ghost - Martin Ward   May 29 - 30  The Wimbledon Theatre

Rambert Dance Company

  • Stand and Stare, Constant Speed, Lady into Fox  November 30 - December 2,  Woking

Opera Box

  • Carmen   September 2004

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

 

Music Staff / Chorus Master

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden   Prompter 2005-

  • Il Turco in Italia
  • La Boheme
  • Tosca
  • Faust

Off-stage conductor 2007-8

  • L'elisir d'amore
  • Don Carlo

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 Master 2006 Guest Conductor 2008
  • 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