Conductor
Ivan
Velikanov
Ivan Velikanov

Was born in Paris. Graduated from the Moscow Conservatory as a composer (2009, prof. Roman Ledenev`s class) and conductor (2012, prof. Gennady Rozhdestvensky`s class). Learned to play early musical instruments – cornet, portative. Performs as a multi-instrumentalist in various ensembles.

In 2009, he founded Russia's first early wind instrument ensemble Alta Capella and since has been its artistic director. In 2014, he founded the Tarusa Chamber Orchestra.

Organizer and Artistic Director of the La Renaissance International Festival of Music and Dance (Moscow, 2011-16).

In 2012, as an assistant to the music director he took part in the production of Emilio de Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo at the Natalia Sats Moscow Children's Musical Theatre.

In 2014, he performed as guest conductor at the Sakha Republic Opera and Ballet Theatre. He took part in the revival of W.A. Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte.

In 2014-2015, he was a staff conductor of Moscow Havel Slobodkin Theatrical and Music Centre Chamber Orchestra.

In 2014-2017, he worked at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Theatre.

In 2017, he conducted the operas Die ZauberflöteLe Nozze di Figaro and the ballet Romeo and Juliet at the Mikhailovsky Theatre (St. Petersburg). The same year he also worked with Dmitry Yurovsky at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre/ NOVAT (assistant and second conductor of the production of Un ballo in Maschera).

Since December 2018 he has been a staff conductor of the Ural Opera (Ekaterinburg State Opera and Ballet Theatre).

The same year he conducted the premiere performances of Le cinesi by Gluck (Tarusa, House of Writers).

In 2020, he was the music director and conductor of the productions at the D.A. Khvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre: choreographic mystery Leningrad Symphony (Lamento) to the music of Syumak, Shostakovich and Mozart, and the opera Bogatyrs by Borodin in the version by Syumak. In 2021, he acted there in the same capacity conducting the ballet Catarina ou la Fille du bandit by Pugni (orchestral reconstruction by Pyotr Pospelov).

In 2021, he conducted the premiere performances of Le nozze di Figaro at the Alexander Pushkin Opera and Ballet Theatre in Nizhny Novgorod.

In 2021, he debuted at the Bolshoi Theatre (Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Stage), conducting Il mondo della luna by Haydn.

Awards
Repertoire
2023
2022

He regularly conducts various chamber orchestras, such as Toscana Classica (Florence, 2016), Volga Philharmonic (Samara, 2018-2021), and the Rostov-on-Don Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (2018).

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»
Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — Tinkoff Bank
Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM