Grigory Shkarupa

Grigory Shkarupa was born in St. Petersburg in 1989. After graduating from the Glinka Choral College in 2007, he went on to study at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory as both a singer and a choral conductor. At the opera studio of the conservatory, Shkarupa performed the roles of Gurnemanz in Wagner’s Parsifal (excerpts of the opera), Zuniga in Bizet’s Carmen conducted by Mariss Jansons, Panas in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Christmas Eve, and others. He is a prizewinner at the 1st Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Singers in St. Petersburg, the Shalyapin International Competition in Yalta, the ‘Three Centuries of the Classical Romance’ International Competition in St. Petersburg, as well as the All-Russian Sviridov Vocal Competition in Kursk. This season, Shkarupa sang Collin