Dimitris Botinis
Dimitris Botinis was born in Moscow into a family of musicians. The conductor spent his childhood and youth in Greece. At the age of five, he began learning to play the violin, then the viola. The artist received his professional musical education at the Municipal Conservatory of Patras, from which he graduated with honors in the violin class. Dimitris Botinis began taking his first conducting lessons at the age of 14 from his father. The next important stage in this field was the participation of the musician in the master courses of Maestro Yuri Simonov in Hungary. This was followed by studies at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, which Dimitris Botinis graduated with honors with a degree in opera and symphony conducting in 2011 (class of Yuri Simonov).
Dimitris Botinis is the winner and winner of all special prizes of the Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition (Italy, 2006), as well as the winner of the I All-Russian Music Competition in the specialty of Opera and Symphony conducting (Moscow, 2011). Since 2011 , the musician has been an assistant conductor of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic (artistic director and chief conductor — Yu . Simonov).
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Alla Chepinoga graduated from the Faculty of Musical Theater of the Russian Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS). Candidate of Art History. Since 2008 - Director of the Moscow Theater "Novaya Opera" named after E.V. Kolobov, from 2011 to 2019 – director of the Educational Stage of GITIS.
She has performed many opera, ballet and drama productions in theaters in Russia. Among them are "Letter of a stranger", "Waiting", "Letters of love", "Capriccio", "The Story of a soldier", "Skeletons in the closet", "Tales of an old grandmother", "Carnival of animals" (Moscow Theater "Novaya Opera" named after E.V. Kolobov), "The Wedding of Figaro", "The Barber of Seville", "Pagliacci", "This is what all women do", "The Tsar's Bride", (North Caucasus State Philharmonic named after V.I. Safonov), "Garnet bracelet", "Grooms" (the author's theater "At the Bridge" in Perm) and "Ordinary Miracle" (The State Russian Drama Theater of Udmurtia in Izhevsk). At the Mariinsky Theater, she staged operas for children "Terem-Teremok" by Leonid Klinichev, "The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant" by Francis Poulenc, "Turnip" by Rustam Sagdiev, "About a Stupid Mouse" by Dmitry Shostakovich. Director of children's concert programs "Carnival of Animals", "Russian Fairy Tales" and "French Fairy Tales" in the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater.
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