Valentin Uryupin
3rd Prize ex-aequo clarinette 2007
Valentin Uryupin - one of the most promising Russian conductors of the younger generation. At the same time Mr. Uryupin is the most acclaimed and successful Russian clarinet player. Valentin was born in 1985 in Lozovaja (Kharkiv region, Ukraine). He studied at the Central Music School and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. His teachers included prof. Evgeny Petrova (clarinet) and illustrious Russian conductor - prof. Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Mr. Uryupin participated in master classes with Charles Naydika, Jacques Di Donato, Nicholas Balder, Roman Guillot, Michel Leteka (clarinet), and also studied with prof. V. Neymer, A. Levin, V. Ponkin (conducting).
Valentin Uryupin is the prize-winner of 21 international clarinet competition in Belgium, Italy, Finland, China, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria and Russia. His concert tours and festival geography covers 15 countries including Europe, China, Japan, almost all the CIS countries and more than 30 cities in Russia.
He has performed as soloist and conductor with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra (Vladimir Spivakov, Artistic Director), "New Russia" Orchestra (Yuri Bashmet, Artistic Director) "Musica Viva" Chamber Orchestra (Alexander Rudin, Artistic Director) the State Academic Chamber Orchestra of Russia, orchestras of Geneva, Brussels, Turin, Beijing, Prague, Minsk , Alma-Ata, Wroclaw, Tashkent, Kharkov, Odessa, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Tolyatti, Yaroslavl, Ulyanovsk, Kostroma, Kirov, Orel. Among Valentin Uryupin's stage partners were conductors Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Alexander Rudin, Felix Korobov, Howard Griffiths, Dirk Brosse, Lothar Seyfarth, Yang Yang, Chyurlenis Quartet (Lithuania), A.Bonduryansky, N.Trull, T. Alihanov, Yu.Avdeeva , L.Genyushas, M. Baking, K. Rodin, G. Murzha, A. Buzlov, S.Antonov, N.Ahnazaryan, A.Shagimuratova, A.Baeva, N. Kozhukhar, Kazazyan G., A. Buzlov, H. Rubinstein, Petrov and others.
Since 2007, Valentin Uryupin has been an artistic director and conductor of the Arpeggione chamber orchestra (Moscow). From 2008 to 2011 he was a principal guest conductor of the Kharkov Academic Youth Symphony Orchestra. Since 2011, he is a guest conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the State Television and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus. In 2011, Valentine became a winner and special prize recipient of the All-Russian Conducting Competition named after I. Musin (Kostroma).
In August of 2011 Valentine Uryupin accepted position of conductor of the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.