Aleksey Yurkovsky

Baritone

Grand Prix winner at the All-Russian Festival-Competition of Conducting, Solo and Choral Singing Viva la Voce (Lugansk, 2024)
Prize-winner at the International Youth Music Competition dedicated to I.F. Stravinsky (remote format, 2024, 3^rd prize)
Prize-winner at the I International Competition for Young Opera Performers named after Feodor Chaliapin (St Petersburg, 2023, 2^nd prize)
Grand Prix winner at the I International Alisa Gitsba Vocal Contest, winner of a special prize for the best performance of a work by a contemporary composer (Sukhumi, Abkhazia, 2022)
Grand Prix winner at the I International Competition for Young Opera Singers named after Sergey Lemeshev (Tver, 2022)
Prize-winner at the VII International Competition named after Boris Shtokolov (St Petersburg, 2022, 3^rd prize)
Prize-winner at the All-Russian Festival-Competition of Patriotic Songs Soldier’s Envelope (Stavropol, 2021, 1^st prize)
Prize-winner at the VII International Chamber Singing Competition named after Georgy Sviridov (Kursk, 2021, 3^rd prize)
Prize-winner at the IX All-Russian Open Vocal Contest named after Nadezhda Obukhova (Lipetsk, 2020, 2^nd prize)
Prize-winner at the II International Festival-Competition Orpheus in memory of the People’s Artist of the USSR M. Magomayev (Grozny, 2019, 2^nd prize)
Prize-winner at the XI International Vocal Contest named after Aleksey Ivanov (Tver, 2019, 2^nd prize)
Prize-winner at the XI International Vocal Contest named after Zara Dolukhanova Amber Nightingale, winner of a special prize for the best performance of a romance by a contemporary composer (Kaliningrad, 2018, 2^nd prize)
Prize-winner at the VIII International Competition Petersburg Reflected in World’s Music Culture (St Petersburg, 2018, 1^st prize)
Prize-winner at the XIX International Competition named after Izabella Yurieva (Tallinn, Estonia, 2018, 1^st prize)
Prize-winner at the VI International Competition named after Boris Shtokolov (St Petersburg, 2018, 1^st prize)
Prize-winner at the International Olga Sosnovskaya Young Vocalists Contest (Syktyvkar, 2016 – 2^nd prize and a special prize for musicality; 2015 – 3^rd prize)

Aleksey Yurkovsky graduated from the College of Arts of the Komi Republic in 2019 (class of Olga Sosnovskaya, Honored Artist of Russia and People’s Artist of the Komi Republic). While still a student, he had worked at the State Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Komi Republic. In 2024, he graduated from the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Assoc. Prof. Alexander Kuznetsov).

In 2018, at the Russian Cultural Centre in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania, Africa), Aleksey took part in a concert with Olga Sosnovskaya and accompanist Natalia Zaitseva. He is a regular participant in the “Talents of the 21^st Century” Concert Festival in Syktyvkar (2015, 2017, 2021).

Aleksey Yurkovsky has taken master classes from Ildar Abdrazakov, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya, Enrico Stinchelli, Mario Diaz, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Vladimir Vaneyev, Olga Sosnovskaya, Svetlana Afonina, Tatyana Smelkova.

In 2019, he was the first in the Komi Republic to perform the solo part in the Spring cantata by Sergei Rachmaninoff based on a poem by N.A. Nekrasov.

Since 2019, he has been a soloist at the “Petersburg Baritones” Alliance. Since 2022, he has been a member of the St Petersburg Union of Concert Workers. From 2023 to 2024, he was a soloist at the Nizhny Novgorod Academic State Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Alexander Pushkin.

In 2023, he performed the part of Prince Yeletsky in The Queen of Spades by P.I. Tchaikovsky in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of the Moscow State Philharmonia. He took part in the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition (St Petersburg, 2023). He also won a special prize at the International Vocal Contest named after Polad Bulbuloghlu for the best performance of a piece from Bulbuloghlu’s repertoire in the Azerbaijani language (Ulduz) (Baku, Azerbaijan, 2024).

Aleksey Yurkovsky holds letters of appreciation from the Committee of Heroes of Socialist Labor, full cavaliers of the Order of Labor Glory and recipients of the Labor Valor of Russia badge of St Petersburg and Leningrad Region; Legislative Assembly of St Petersburg; Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Komi Republic; Representative Office of the Komi Republic in the Northwestern Federal District of the Russian Federation.

Since August 2024, Aleksey Yurkovsky has been a soloist of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.

Repertoire at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Falke (Die Fledermaus, J. Strauss II).

Repertoire also includes:
Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin, P. Tchaikovsky);
Prince Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades, P. Tchaikovsky);
Foka (The Enchantress, P. Tchaikovsky);
Ibn-Hakia (Iolanta, P. Tchaikovsky);
D’Artagnan, Porthos (The Love of D'Artagnan, M. Weinberg);
Schaunard (La bohème, G. Puccini);
Gianni Schicchi (Gianni Schicchi, G. Puccini);
Aleko (Aleko, S. Rachmaninoff);
Tsarevich Afron (The Golden Cockerel, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus, J. Strauss II).