Orchestral Conducting and Instrumentation Department

ALEXANDER SHATOV

Position: Senior teacher of the Orchestral Conducting and Instrumentation Department
Education: Donetsk State Music Academy named after S.Prokofiev (2011, accordion and orchestral conducting), probation assistantship there (2014, accordion and orchestral conducting).
Rostov State Conservatory named after S.Rachmaninoff (2022, opera and symphony conducting).
Tambov State Music and Pedagogical Institute named after S.Rachmaninoff, postgraduate program (2024–present, correspondence study).
Courses taught: conducting, orchestral conducting


Date of birth: June 2, 1987. Since 2015, he has worked at Belgorod State Institute of Arts and Culture (BSIAC) as a senior teacher in the Music and Instrumental Performance Department. He is the art director and conductor of the Russian Folk Instruments Orchestra, the Bayan and Accordion Orchestra, and since 2022, the art director and principal conductor of BSIAC Symphony Orchestra.

Since 2024, he has been a senior teacher in the Orchestral Conducting and Instrumentation Department at Belarusian State Academy of Music, art director and conductor of the Bayan and Accordion Orchestra, Belarussian State Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra.

Laureate of the II International Bayan, Accordion, and Harmonica Performers Competition (Tambov, Russia, 2020).
Laureate of the VIII All-Russian Instrumentation Competition (Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, Moscow, Russia, 2020).
Laureate of the II International Theoretical Paper Competition (Belgorod, Russia, 2020).
Laureate of the All-Russian Festival and Competition of Creative Works named after N.Chaikin (Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory named after M.Glinka, Russia, 2021).
Laureate of the IX All-Russian Instrumentation Competition (Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, Moscow, Russia, 2021).
Laureate of the III International Theoretical Works Competition (Belgorod, Russia, 2021).
Laureate of the I All-Russian Competition for Composition and Instrumentation for Russian Folk Instruments Orchestra (Samara Conservatory named after L.Sobinov, Saratov, Russia, 2022).
Laureate of the I All-Russian Instrumentation Competition named after M.Glinka (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 2024).

Author of instrumentations and arrangements for various orchestras and ensembles. He is actively involved in career guidance work, conducts master classes for students of childrenss music schools and music colleges.

 

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