| Alexander TrofimovTenor• Prize-winner at the Isabella Yurieva International Competition of Early Russian Romance Performers (Tallinn, 2005) • Prize-winner at the International Franz Lehár Competition (Slovakia, 2010) • Prize-winner at the Spring of Romance all-Russian competition (2011) • Prize-winner at the St Petersburg Grand-Prix international vocalists’ competition (2012). • Recipient of the special prize “For the best performance of a romance by de Falla” at the Elena Obraztsova International Chamber Music Competition (2014). In 2004 he graduated from the Baltic Institute of Foreign Languages and International Co-operation (studio school of the Alexandrinsky Theatre) having specialised as a theatre and film actor, and in 2007 he graduated from the Baltic Institute of Ecology, Politics and Law having specialised as a musical theatre performer (vocal class of Inessa Prosalovskaya, Honoured Artist of Russia). Has taken part in master-classes run by the Mariinsky International Summer Academy of Young Opera Singers, Elena Obraztsova and Gian Luca Pasolini, Grayr Khanedanian, Vladimir Atlantov, Dmitry Hvorostovsky, Franco Pagliazzi and Matti Palm. Has taken part in master classes run by the International Summer Academy for young Mariinsky Theatre, Elena Obraztsova and Gian Luca Pasolini. From 2004–2006 he was a soloist at the Karambol children’s musical theatre. From 2006 he was a soloist with the St Petersburg Theatre of Musical Comedy. From 2007 he was an actor with the “Dom” theatre. Since 2011 he has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers. Repertoire at the Mariinsky theatre includes: Chekalinsky (The Queen od Spades) Iskra (Mazepa) Boleslav Chaplinsky (Pan Voyevoda in concert) Tsarevich Guidon (The Golden Cockerel) Prince Vsevolod Yuryevich, Prince Vsevolod Yuryevich, Bear Handler (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia) Second Croupier (The Gambler) Anatole Kuragin (War and Peace) Paul Mache (Orango) Genaro (Maddalena) Father Cardi (The Gadfly in concert) Nastyenka’s Fiance (White Nights) Tinca (Il tabarro) Cassio (Otello) Remendado (Carmen) Juan (Don Quichottte) Freddy Eynsford-Hill (My Fair Lady) In 2007 he appeared in anniversary concerts to mark one hundred and twenty-five years since the birth of Emmerich Kálmán in Budapest. In 2009 he performed the role of Radjami in Emmerich Kálmán’s Die Bajadere at the Budapest Operetta Theatre. In 2009-2010 he appeared at international operetta gala concerts at the Ion Dacian National Operetta Theatre in Bucharest. In 2011 under the baton of maestro Peter Guth (Vienna’s Strauss Festival Orchestra) he appeared at the Cologne Philharmonic. The same year, he performed the role of Lensky at the State Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Komi Republic. In 2013 he appeared in the project Songs of the War Years at the Minsk State Philharmonic (the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev). In 2014 he performed the role of Paul Mash in Shostakovich’s opera-buffa Orango at the Helsinki Arts Festival and at the Baltic Sea Festival (Stockholm, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen). Has toured to France, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Costa Rica, China, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Belarus. | |