Valentin Uryupin holds a degree from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (clarinet class of Prof. Yevgeny Petrov, Honored Artists of Russia, and operatic-and-symphonic conducting class of Gennady Rozhdestvensky, People’s Artist of the USSR). He was the First Prize and all Special Prizes winner at the Georg Solti International Conducting Competition in Frankfurt in 2017, won the Russian Conducting Competition in Moscow in 2015 and was a prize-winner at the Mahler International Conducting Competition in Bamberg in 2016.
Valentin Uryupin collaborates with the best Russian and foreign orchestras including the Evgeny Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, the Tchaikovsky Big Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Moscow Virtuosi, Moscow Soloists, the Wiener Philharmoniker, Deutsche Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumorchester, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the Netherlands Philharmonic, the George Enescu Philharmonic in Bucharest, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Czech Radio Orchestra, Orchestres de Chambre de Lausanne et de Genève, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, among others.
Valentin Uryupin has performed with many famous musicians such as Yuri Bashmet, Denis Matsuev, Nikolai Lugansky, Viktor Tretiakov, Vadim Repin, Alexander Rudin, Sergey Krylov, Joyce DiDonato, Thomas Hampson, Bryn Terfel, Marc-André Hamelin, Arabella Steinbacher, and others. He has served as an assistant conductor to Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Valery Gergiev, and Vladimir Jurowski. Other past positions of Valentin Uryupin include assistant conductor to Teodor Currentzis, conductor at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre and soloist at the MusicAeterna Orchestra.
Presently Valentin Uryupin is the Artistic Director and the Principal Conductor at the Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestra. His engagements for upcoming seasons include the Danish Radio Orchestra, the Flemish Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest MAV Symphony Orchestra, the South Netherlands Philharmonic, the Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, and the Darmstadt Philharmonic. He will also stage operas in Bregenz, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Gannover, and Bologna.
Valentin Uryupin was awarded the Russian Presidential Prize for young cultural workers for his contribution to the development of domestic music art.
