Iaramir Nizamutdinov

• Finalist and Audience Choice Award winner at the I International Chaliapin Young Opera Performers Contest (St Petersburg, 2023; also recipient of Special Prizes from the Legislative Assembly of St Petersburg, from the Russian Musical Theatre Festival To See the Music and from the St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra under the baton of Fabio Mastrangelo)
• Winner of the St Petersburg Government Prize in the field of culture and art for 2021 (for the part of Vakula in the opera Cherevichki)
• Prize-winner at the XXII St Petersburg Competition The Spring of Romance (2021; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the VII St Petersburg Competition The Spring of Pop Song (2021; 1^st prize)
• Winner of the St Petersburg Government Prize in the field of culture and art for 2019 (for the part of Phoebus de Châteaupers in the opera Esmeralda)
• Prize-winner at the 47^th All-Russian Review-Competition of Vocalists – Graduates of Music Universities (St Petersburg, 2019; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the XIII Open Republican S. Säydäşev Competition of Vocalists (Nizhnekamsk, 2017; 2^nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the IX International Television Competition of Young Performers The Tatar Melody in the Academic Vocal Performance nomination (Kazan, 2017; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the XIV International Räşit Wahapov Festival of Tatar Song (Kazan, 2017; 2^nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the IV International Television Competition of Young Performers The Tatar Melody in the Folk Singing nomination (Kazan, 2012; 3^rd prize)
• Prize-winner at the All-Russian Author Song Contest among the Personnel of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (Balashikha, Moscow Region, 2012; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the IV Open Interregional Festival-Competition of Performers of Tatar Song and Instrumental Music The Ural Nightingale (Yekaterinburg, 2011; 3^rd prize)

Iaramir Nizamutdinov was born in the village of Yuldus, Kurgan Region. In 2019, he graduated from the N.G. Zhiganov Kazan State Conservatory (class of Raida Ermokhina).

While a student at the Conservatory, he became an interning soloist at the Tatar Musa Jalil State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, where he performed the part of Ivan the Terrible in the world premiere of Rezeda Akhiyarova’s opera Soyumbike (2018), and also sang the parts of Emperor Altoum (Turandot), a Neighboring Boyar (Boris Godunov), and Master of Ceremonies (The Queen of Spades). In 2018 and 2019, he performed at the International Chaliapin Opera Festival.

From 2012 to 2018, Iaramir Nizamutdinov was a member of One Voice duet together with People’s Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan Ferdinand Salakhov.

From 2019 to 2024, he was a soloist at the St Petersburg Opera Theatre, where his repertoire included the parts of the Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto); Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore); Pollione (Norma); Lensky (Eugene Onegin); Vakula (Cherevichki); Igor (Ivan IV, Bizet); Phoebus de Châteaupers (Esmeralda, Dargomyzhsky); Sir Edgar Aubry (Der Vampyr, Marschner); Gastone de Letorière (La traviata); the Forest Spirit, the Hunter and the Frog (Little Red Riding Hood, Cui). With the Theatre, he toured to Dubai, Cairo, Beijing, Belgrade, Istanbul, and Dushanbe.

The singer’s repertoire also includes the parts of Lord Arthur Talbot (I puritani); Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail); Ernesto (Don Pasquale); Alfredo Germont (La traviata), Don Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro).

He has performed a large number of solo concerts in Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Estonia, and in numerous cities and towns in Russia.

Since 2023, Iaramir Nizamutdinov has been a guest soloist at the Petersburg Concert. 

Since March 2024, he also has been a soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre, where he made his debut in May of the same year, performing the part of Bogdan Sobinin in the opera A Life for the Tsar: first in a chamber version, then in the stage version.