Born in Leningrad in 1987, Alexey Rubin studied at the Glinka Choral College and then at the St Petersburg Conservatory majoring in choral conducting with Prof. Valentin Nesterov (graduated in 2010) and in opera and symphonic conducting with Prof. Yuri Simonov (graduated in 2015). He has attended master classes by Yuri Simonov, Riccardo Muti, Vassily Sinaisky, Yuri Temirkanov, Victor Yampolsky and Bruno Weil. The musician has won prizes at the 3rd Ilya Musin National Open Competition for Young Symphony Conductors in Kostroma (2013) and at the 2nd All-Russian Music Competition in Moscow (2015). He has conducted Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart, Eugene Onegin and Iolanta by Tchaikovsky at the St Petersburg Conservatory Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Since 2015, Alexey Rubin has been Assistant Conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra regularly appearing with them at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and the Rachmaninoff Concert Hall (Philharmonia 2). Since 2018, he has collaborated with the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra that he conducted at the Denis Matsuev Festival in Perm in March 2019.
The conductor regularly appears with the Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestra, Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra, Youth Symphony Orchestra of St Petersburg, Surgut Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Krasnoyarsk Academic Symphony Orchestra, Iași Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania), also conducting performances at the Saratov Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. He has collaborated with the National Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Yaroslavl Academic Governor’s Symphony Orchestra, Ulyanovsk Governor’s Orchestra and Far Eastern Academic Symphony Orchestra.
Alexey Rubin has performed with famous Russian soloists including Boris Berezovsky, Denis Matsuev, Sergey Tarasov, Andrey Gugnin, Vyacheslav Gryaznov, Aylen Pritchin, Sergey Antonov, Alexander Ramm, and Sofia Kiprskaya. He has assisted Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov and Mikhail Jurowski. Since 2017, he has been taking part in the Green Noise youth art festival in Surgut headed by Ekaterina Mechetina.
The conductor has performed with young laureates of the International Grand Piano Competition and the Nutcracker International Television Contest. In cooperation with Ekaterina Mechetina and Dmitry Antipov (ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director of Rudi Dance Lab group), he staged one-act ballets to the music of Ravel and Rachmaninoff.
