Artjom Safronov

Artjom Safronov was born in Riga, Latvia. He started his music studies at the Vocal faculty of Jazepa Medinja School, under the guidance of M. Gruzdeva between 2002-2003, between 2004-2009 he continued at the Gnessin Academy of Music in the class of Prof. K.Lissovsky and earned an MA in the Music Arts, Voice Arts and Academic Singing. Following these studies he took a postgraduate course with Prof. Z.Sotkilava at the P.I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory between 2009-2012. In addition, his vocal training also includes multiple masterclasses, in Russia as well as abroad, among which in 2003 and in 2004 with Prof. K.Lissovsky, in 2009 with Prof. Elena Obraztsova at the Cultural Center of Vocal Art in St. Petersburg, and in 2016 with Michael Paul (USA) in Ischia, Italy.

Artjom’s operatic experience already includes many roles, among which Max in ’Der Freischutz’ by K.M. Von Weber (in 2018), Rilke in ’Love’s Metamorphosis’ by A. Zhurbin (in 2017), Alladin in ’The magic lamp of Alladin’ by N. Rota (2016), Nemorino in ’The Elixir of Love’ by G. Donizetti (2015), Ferrando in ’Cosi fan tutte’ by W. A. Mozart (2014), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni by W. A. Mozart (2014), Walther von der Vogelweide in Tannhaser by R. Wagner (in 2013), Huon in Oberon by K. M. Von Weber (2013), Camille in the Merry Widow by F. Lehar (2013), First man in a-capella opera The Blind by L. Auerbach (2012), Tsarevich Guidon in The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Rimsky-Korsakov (2012), Lysander in Midsummer Night’s Dream by B. Britten (2012), Rodolfo in La Boheme by G. Puccini (2011), Lensky in Eugene Onegin by P. Tchaikovsky (in 2008-2009) – which he performed in collaborations with SND, SND and the English National Opera, Musica Viva Orchestra, and most recently Kammeroper Schloss
Rheinsberg.

Among the concert performances Artjom took part in are also: a 2010 Recital ’Capriccio’ in the Hall Ave Sol, in Riga (Latvia); concerts in the Great Hall and in the Small Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory and at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, in 2014 with the Sverdlovsk Philharmony in ’Requiem’ by G. Verdi, in 2015 a Recital with Sumi Jo, in the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, and in 2017 together with the Sverdlovsk Philharmony.

Since 2011 Artjom is the soloist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre.