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Anton Shnitkin was born in Kurgan. He completed his violin studies at the Kurgan Region Music College under Galina Ivanovna Kushvid, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation. He pursued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Germany and the Gent Royal Conservatoire – School of Arts of the HoGent University, Belgium under Prof. Thomas Christian and Prof. Lukas David.
As a concertmaster and in other capacities, Anton Shnitkin has collaborated with such orchestras as the Baden-Württemberg Chamber Orchestra I Sedici (Stuttgart, Germany), the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt, Germany, the Philharmonie der Nationen Orchestra (Berlin, Germany), the Bern Festival Orchestra (Bern, Switzerland), to name a few and with such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Justus Frantz, Rudolf Barshai, Luigi Sagrestano, Ariel Zuckermann, among others.
As a soloist accompanied by an orchestra, he has appeared at the greatest European halls including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Germany, the Rudolfinum – Czech Philharmonic (Prague, Czech Republic), the Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany, and others.
From 2017 to 2022, Anton Shnitkin served as the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Zauralsky Symphony Orchestra of the Kurgan Region Philharmonic.
In 2021, Anton Shnitkin graduated with distinction from the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire, majoring in Opera & Symphony Conducting (class of Prof. V.L. Kartashov).
From September 2021 to May 2022, he acted as an orchestra conductor and a teacher at the Opera & Symphony Conducting Department of the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory.
From August 2022, Anton Shnitkin has served as the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Far Eastern Academic Symphony Orchestra.
