Born in St Petersburg. Graduated from the Glinka Choral School in 2005 and from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (conducting faculty) in 2010. Since 2007 he has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers. In 2009 he became Chorus Master of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers and has been involved in the theatre’s productions of operas including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night and Christmas Eve (2009) and Antonin Dvorak’s Rusalka (2009) as well as a consert perfomance of Jules Massenet’s opera Don Quichotte featuring Ferruccio Furlanetto (2010).