Nikiforchin
Born in Moscow. In 2020 graduated from the faculty of opera and symphonic conducting at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (classes of Valery Polyansky and Yury Abdokov). Has been a participant in the master classes of Yuri Temirkanov, Vasily Petrenko and others.
Founder, artistic director and chief conductor of the Academy of Russian Music, which combines chamber orchestra and choir. The group performs in the concert halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Moscow International House of Music and other venues. The orchestra’s repertoire includes music from different eras and styles: from C. Monteverdi, G. Schütz, J.S. Bach, G.I. von Biber, G. Purcell, W.A. Mozart, E. Méhul, L. Beethoven to G. Mahler, A. Schoenberg, E. Elgar, G. Holst, B. Britten, O. Messiaen and Russian composers the 20th-21st centuries such as by N. Myaskovsky, D. Shostakovich, G. Sviridov, B. Tchaikovsky, N. Peiko, M. Weinberg, G. Galynin, R. Bunin, G. Popov, G. Ustvolskaya, Y. Abdokov, and chamber orchestra transcriptions of Rudolf Barshay. Together with the Chamber Orchestra he performed a number of Russian premieres of works by O. Respighi, P. Hindemith, W. Lutoslawski and G. Finzi.
Collaborates with Yuri Abdokov’s International Creative Workshop Terra Musica (Russia – Germany – Italy) and the Boris Tchaikovsky Society, under the auspices of which he carried out a number of projects: the pioneer recordings of all scores for chamber orchestra and string ensembles of German Galynin and the first recording of the complete choral works of Anatoly Lyadov. Realised the world premiere of Suite for Chamber Orchestra, Op. 26 by Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Performed multiple chamber orchestra scores by N. Peiko, R. Bunin, M. Weinberg, A. Lokshin, A. Volkonsky and others. Directs the orchestral subscription The Great Pages of Russian Music of the 20th Century at the Moscow International House of Music.
He is a conductor of the State Academic Symphony Capella of Russia. Since 2022 has been teaching opera and symphony conducting at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
In 2021 made his debut at the Bolshoi Theatre, conducting the opera Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart on the Pokrovsky Chamber Stage.
Boris Tchaikovsky International Award
Grand Prix of the International Magnum Opus Festival of Contemporary Art by Nikolai Khondzinsky
2nd award of the Rachmaninov International Competition of Pianists, Composers and Conductors
Performs with the country’s leading orchestras, including the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Tatarstan and more.
As music director and conductor he participated in the production of The Nutcracker at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (2022).
CD, Toccata-Classics. London / Disc of the Year at Music Web International, 1st award of the Pure Sound Award
CD, Toccata-Classics. London / Disc of the Year at Music Web International, II award of the Pure Sound Award