Concerts by notable alumni

Prominent Petrozavodsk Conservatoire alumni Aleksander Lubyantcev and Julia Matochkina have given solo concerts in Petrozavodsk in December 2022. 

Julia Matochkina (mezzo-soprano), the 1st Prize winner of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition (2015) and a lead soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre,  graduated from the Petrozavodsk State Galzunov Conservatoire (class of Prof. Viktoria Gladchenko). She made the Mariinsky Theatre debut in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in 2009.  Julia Matochkina has performed at the Bolshoi Theatre (Lyubasha in Tsar’s Bride), Opéra national de Paris (Marfa in Khovanshchina), the Metropolitan Opera (Maddalena in Rigoletto), the Teatro alla Scala (Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera) and the Arena di Verona Opera Festival (title part in Carmen; Verdi Opera Night with Plácido Domingo), as well as she has sung at the Staatsoper Hamburg (Federica in Luisa Miller), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Princess Eboli in Don Carlo) and in Utrecht (Verdi’s Requiem),  the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Los Angeles Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the festivals in Edinburgh, Verbier, Baden-Baden, the BBC Proms in London, Gergiev’s festivals in Mikkeli (Finland) and Rotterdam, the Festival Berlioz in La Côte-Saint-André (France), the Salzburg Festival.

In December 2022 Julia Matochkina gave her solo concert at the Concert Hall of the Petrozavodsk Conservatoire performing romances by Piotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Tcherepnin, Vasily Kalinnikov and other Russian composers as well as arias from operas by Georges Bizet, Francesco Cilea, Pietro Mascagni. 

Aleksander Lubyantsev (piano), the 3rd Prize winner of the XIII International Tchaikovsky Competition (2007) and the Critics’ Prize holder for his performance at the XIV  International Tchaikovsky Competition (2011), graduated from the Petrozavodsk Conservatoire (class of Prof. Viktor Portnoi) and  has been teaching at his alma mater since 2014. He has performed in venues such as Suntory and Nikkei Halls in Japan, the Fazioli Concert Hall, Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie, the Tchaikovsky Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic, and the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater, and with conductors such as Gianandrea Noseda, Christoph Poppen, János Fürst, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Mikhail Tatarnikov, Alexey Niaga, Ivan  Nikiforchin, Dima Slobodeniouk, Maxim Fedotov, Vladimir Spivakov, Pavel Sorokin.  

In December 2022 Aleksander Lubyantsev gave two solo concerts at the Recital Hall of the Petrozavodsk Conservatoire performing Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev.