Igor Vorobyov

Graduated from the Leningrad Choir College (1983), Leningrad Conservatoire (1992).  Member of the Union of composers of Russia. Scholarship holder of the Ministry of culture (1998-2000). The winner of the grant of the Russian humanitarian scientific Fund (2000), the winner of the all-Russian competition D. D. Shostakovich (2014), winner of a number of international competitions and festivals. Since 1994 he has been teaching at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Professor of the Department of music theory of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Doctor of art (2014). Deputy Chairman of the dissertation Council of the St. Petersburg Conservatory (2018). Author of fundamental monographs on the history of Russian avant-garde music and Soviet music of the 1930s-1950s. 

Participant in international symposiums, conferences and festivals in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Germany, USA, Japan, South Korea, Georgia, Armenia. He gave open lectures and master classes at the Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Saratov, Tbilisi, Volgograd conservatories, Grodno University, University Laval (Quebec, Canada), music colleges of Yakutsk, Penza, Grodno, Daejeon (South Korea). One of the organizers and Director of the international festival of arts "From the Avant-garde to the present day" (1992-2016), since 2017 - Director of the international festival "World of art. Contrasts”.

As a composer, conductor and pianist he took part in concerts in many cities of Russia, as well as in Paris, Rome, Quebec, Montreal, Stockholm, Visby, Turku, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn, Kiev, Batumi etc. Among the musical works: four ballets, four operas, "Don Capriccio" for a large symphony orchestra and the poem "There is only light" for a symphony orchestra and organ, a small symphony for seven instruments "Archipelago", two instrumental concertos (piano and double bass), three piano, two cello, viola and violin sonatas, string Quartet, "Izhora wedding" for five instruments, Requiem, Magnificat, Stabat Mater, cantata "Sergius Radonezhsky", "Weeping" for folk ensemble, double basses and piano, eight choral concerts and cycles, ten vocal cycles. Igor Vorobyov’s music has been recorded on radio and television in St. Petersburg and Moscow, as well as 7 CDs and 3 DVDs.