Ivan Stolbov

clarinetist/conductor

RUSSIA

IVAN STOLBOV was born in Leningrad and graduated from the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, subsequently undertaking an assistant traineeship there (class of Prof. Valery Bezruchenko). Since 1999 he has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Orchestra. Regularly tours with the orchestra. As a soloist he has performed with the Moscow and Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestras, the St. Petersburg State Academic Cappella and the Tokyo and Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestras among other ensembles. Ivan Stolbov has made successful appearances at prestigious music competitions. He received the Grand Prix at the Young Wind Instrument Performers’ Competition (Novosibirsk, 2000), and was a prize-winner at the ARD Competition (Munich, 2001) with a wind quintet, the ‘Jeunesses musicales’ competition (Bucharest, 2004), the Rimsky-Korsakov Wind Instrument Performers’ Competition (St Petersburg, 2005) and the International Competition of Wind and Percussion Instrument Performers (Tokyo, 2007).

In 2013 Ivan Stolbov graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatoire as a conductor and studied under Alexander Polishchuk, Vasily Sinaisky and Alexander Titov and at this moment he actively combines concert activities as a clarinetist and conductor. As a conductor, Stolbov collaborates with Russian orchestras, including the Mariinsky theatre orchestra, the St. Petersburg state academic Symphony orchestra, the orchestra of the Musical theatre of the Republic of Karelia and others. Stolbov’s repertoire includes operas ‘Benvenuto Cellini’, ‘Un ballo in maschera’, ‘Eugene Onegin’, ‘The Queen of Spades’, ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’. In 2017 he has been Valery Gergiev's assistant at the productions of the ballets ‘Yaroslavna. The Eclipse’ and ‘Symphony in Three Movements’ at the Mariinsky theatre. In 2012 Ivan Stolbov and pianist Kim Ja Ran recorded a disc on ‘Melodiya’ featuring clarinet works by Debussy, Gretchaninov, Poulenc, Hindemith and Taneyev. In 2016 appeared his conducting debut disc.