Boris Pinkhasovich

Baritone

Born in 1986 in Leningrad, in 2005 he graduated cum laude from the Glinka Boys’ Choir School of St Petersburg and entered the Conducting and Choral Department of the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory (class of Professor T. Khitrova) and joined the Chamber Choir of the Smolny Cathedral. Since 2006 he has been a conductor of the Symphonic Orchestra of the Scientist’s House of St Petersburg (since 2008 — Artistic Director of the Orchestra). In 2008, he entered the Singing Department of the Conservatory (class of Professor Irina Bogachyova) and graduated cum laude in 2011. In 2011, he joined the Mikhailovsky Opera Company.
He performed with the renowned conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Saulius Sondeckis, Leo Kraemer. Andrey Anikhanov, Alexander Titov, Peter Feranec.

His repertory includes:
— Uberto (La serva padrona)
— Aleko (Aleko)
— Dancairo (Carmen)
— Demon (Demon)
— Ibn-Hakkia (Iolanta)
— Amfortas (Parsifal)
— Carmina Burana by Carl Orf
— The St Matthew Passion, The St John Passion by J.S. Bach
— Requiem, The Great Mass by W.A. Mozart
— The German Requiem by I. Brahms
— Masses and Cantatas by Handel, Haydn, Schubert, Tchaikovsky
— Vocal compositions by S. Slonimsky

His repertory at the Mikhailovsky Theatre includes:
— Marcel (La Boheme)
— Onegin (Eugene Onegin)
— Eletsky (The Queen of Spades)
— Belcore (L’elisir d’amore)
— Angelotti (Tosca)
— Robert (Iolanta)

Awards:
I prize at the IV International Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Singers Competition (2012)
I prize at the International Singing Contest in Spain (2010)
prize at the International Singing Competition in St Petersburg (2009)
prize at the All-Russian Competition of the Choral Conductors in Nizhny Novgorod (2005)
Nominee for the Highest Theatre Award of Russia Golden Mask (2010-2011) as Best Male Opera Role for Marcel in La Boheme
Scholarship of the Ministry for Culture of Russia