Ivan Shinkarev

Ivan got his early musical education as a violinist and a vocalist. He finished the Choral Conducting Faculty of the Sverdlovsk P. I. Tchaikovsky Music College where he studied conducting with Anatoly Pavkin. In 2021 Ivan graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory with the specialist degree in opera and orchestral conducting. His Professor there was Alexander Polishchuk, a student and assistant of the legendary Ilya Musin. Two years later, Ivan completed the post graduate assistantship in Conducting the opera and symphony orchestra under national artist of the USSR, Professor Yuri Simonov. Ivan Shinkarev presented operas "Iolanta", "Eugene Onegin", "La Traviata" and "The Dawns Here are Quiet" (director and project manager Andrey Tsvetkov-Tolbin) as the graduation works in the theater o