Valentin Uryupin

Valentin Uryupin graduated from the Moscow conservatory as a pupil of Professor Petrov in the clarinet class and Professor Gennady Rozhdestvensky in the opera-symphonic conducting. He has been the winner of many international clarinet competitions, in Geneva, Munich, Peking, Gent among others. As a conductor he has made remarkable achievements by winning prizes at the All-Russian competition in Moscow (2015), the Vth Gustav Mahler competition in Bamberg (2016), the VIIIth international George Solti competition in Frankfurt (2017). Uryupin now is a conductor of Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre and the artistic director and chief conductor of Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestra.