Valentin Uryupin is one of the most versatile and successful young Russian conductors. He graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky, where he studied clarinet under Professor Yevgeny Petrov and opera-symphonic conducting under Professor Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
He is the winner of all special prizes at the 8th International Georg Solti Conducting Competition in Frankfurt (1st prize, audience favorite prize, and the special prize of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, 2017), winner of the 2nd All-Russian Conducting Competition in Moscow (2015), and laureate of the 5th International Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg (2016). He has also been a prize-winner in various international clarinet competitions. In March 2019, Valentin Uryupin was awarded the President of the Russian Federation Prize for Young Cultural Professionals for his contribution to the development of Russian musical art.
As an assistant conductor, he has worked with Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Jurowski, and Andrey Boreyko. He served as an assistant to Teodor Currentzis for several years, including in the opera "La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Robert Wilson. He was a conductor at the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after P. I. Tchaikovsky and a soloist of the "musicAeterna" orchestra.
Valentin Uryupin collaborates with leading Russian and international ensembles, including the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia named after E. F. Svetlanov, Russian National Orchestra, Academic Symphony Orchestras of the Moscow and St. Petersburg Philharmonics, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, State Chamber Orchestra "Virtuosi of Moscow," Moscow Chamber Ensemble "Soloists of Moscow," Mariinsky and Mikhailovsky Theatres, orchestras of Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg, as well as the Vienna Symphony, Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Frankfurt Opera, Stuttgart Opera, SWR Orchestra, Italian Switzerland Orchestra in Lugano, Verdi Orchestra in Milan, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Bucharest, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Tokyo Symphony, Brussels Philharmonic, Czech Radio Orchestra, chamber orchestras of Lausanne and Geneva, and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin.
He has performed with renowned musicians such as Yuri Bashmet, Eliso Virsaladze, Denis Matsuev, Hibla Gerzmava, Nikolai Lugansky, Viktor Tretiakov, Vadim Repin, Alexander Rudin, Sergey Krylov, Joyce DiDonato, Barbara Hannigan, Alexander Kniazev, Vadim Gluzman, Pepe Romero, Sergey Khachatryan, Thomas Hampson, Bryn Terfel, Mark-André Hamelin, Arabella Steinbacher.
In 2013, the State Symphony Orchestra "New Russia" and Valentin Uryupin recorded the musical accompaniment for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
In 2015, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra Musica Viva, under the direction of Valentin Uryupin, accompanied violinists in the second round auditions of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition.
In 2019, the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Valentin Uryupin, accompanied the finalists of the prestigious ARD International Music Competition in Munich.
From 2015 to 2021, he was the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestra, which achieved a new level of creative development under his leadership. Since 2021, he has been the Chief Guest Conductor of the orchestra.
Recent engagements include debut performances with the Municipal Theatre Orchestra in Bologna, Orchestra della Toscana, Tyrolean Festival Orchestra in Erl, debut performances at the Stuttgart State Opera ("L'amour des trois oranges" by Sergei Prokofiev) and the Bregenz Festival ("Eugene Onegin" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky).
In September 2020, at the Trans-Siberian Art Festival in Novosibirsk, Valentin Uryupin conducted the world premiere of a new version of Arvo Pärt's composition "La Sindone" ("The Shroud") with soloist Vadim Repin. In November, he conducted the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra at the opening of the 7th International Festival of Contemporary Music "Another Space."
In August 2021, Valentin Uryupin, with the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra (RNYSCO), performed at the Lucerne Cultural Center (Switzerland) as part of the famous Lucerne Festival.
Under Valentin Uryupin's leadership, the New Opera Theatre presented a concert version of Mikhail Glinka's opera "A Life for the Tsar" (as part of the Epiphany Festival on January 15, 2019) and the Russian premiere of the full version of the vocal cycle "Correspondances" by Kaija Saariaho for soprano and orchestra (a gala concert "Faces of Music" for the theatre's 30th anniversary on April 24, 2021).
Since August 2021, he has held the position of Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Moscow theatre "Novaya Opera."
In 2022, he became the Music Director of the Epiphany Festival at the New Opera Theatre, which took place from January 19 to 23. The festival included a concert performance of Jules Massenet's opera "Cinderella," a "Turned Concert" (featuring both musicians and audience members on stage, chamber music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the world premiere of Georgy Mansurov's composition "Zeno's Arrow"), and the first performance in Russia of the oratorio "Passions of Simone" by Kaija Saariaho.
He is the winner of all special prizes at the 8th International Georg Solti Conducting Competition in Frankfurt (1st prize, audience favorite prize, and the special prize of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, 2017), winner of the 2nd All-Russian Conducting Competition in Moscow (2015), and laureate of the 5th International Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg (2016). He has also been a prize-winner in various international clarinet competitions. In March 2019, Valentin Uryupin was awarded the President of the Russian Federation Prize for Young Cultural Professionals for his contribution to the development of Russian musical art.
As an assistant conductor, he has worked with Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Jurowski, and Andrey Boreyko. He served as an assistant to Teodor Currentzis for several years, including in the opera "La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Robert Wilson. He was a conductor at the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after P. I. Tchaikovsky and a soloist of the "musicAeterna" orchestra.
Valentin Uryupin collaborates with leading Russian and international ensembles, including the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia named after E. F. Svetlanov, Russian National Orchestra, Academic Symphony Orchestras of the Moscow and St. Petersburg Philharmonics, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, State Chamber Orchestra "Virtuosi of Moscow," Moscow Chamber Ensemble "Soloists of Moscow," Mariinsky and Mikhailovsky Theatres, orchestras of Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg, as well as the Vienna Symphony, Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Frankfurt Opera, Stuttgart Opera, SWR Orchestra, Italian Switzerland Orchestra in Lugano, Verdi Orchestra in Milan, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Bucharest, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Tokyo Symphony, Brussels Philharmonic, Czech Radio Orchestra, chamber orchestras of Lausanne and Geneva, and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin.
He has performed with renowned musicians such as Yuri Bashmet, Eliso Virsaladze, Denis Matsuev, Hibla Gerzmava, Nikolai Lugansky, Viktor Tretiakov, Vadim Repin, Alexander Rudin, Sergey Krylov, Joyce DiDonato, Barbara Hannigan, Alexander Kniazev, Vadim Gluzman, Pepe Romero, Sergey Khachatryan, Thomas Hampson, Bryn Terfel, Mark-André Hamelin, Arabella Steinbacher.
In 2013, the State Symphony Orchestra "New Russia" and Valentin Uryupin recorded the musical accompaniment for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
In 2015, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra Musica Viva, under the direction of Valentin Uryupin, accompanied violinists in the second round auditions of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition.
In 2019, the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Valentin Uryupin, accompanied the finalists of the prestigious ARD International Music Competition in Munich.
From 2015 to 2021, he was the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestra, which achieved a new level of creative development under his leadership. Since 2021, he has been the Chief Guest Conductor of the orchestra.
Recent engagements include debut performances with the Municipal Theatre Orchestra in Bologna, Orchestra della Toscana, Tyrolean Festival Orchestra in Erl, debut performances at the Stuttgart State Opera ("L'amour des trois oranges" by Sergei Prokofiev) and the Bregenz Festival ("Eugene Onegin" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky).
In September 2020, at the Trans-Siberian Art Festival in Novosibirsk, Valentin Uryupin conducted the world premiere of a new version of Arvo Pärt's composition "La Sindone" ("The Shroud") with soloist Vadim Repin. In November, he conducted the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra at the opening of the 7th International Festival of Contemporary Music "Another Space."
In August 2021, Valentin Uryupin, with the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra (RNYSCO), performed at the Lucerne Cultural Center (Switzerland) as part of the famous Lucerne Festival.
Under Valentin Uryupin's leadership, the New Opera Theatre presented a concert version of Mikhail Glinka's opera "A Life for the Tsar" (as part of the Epiphany Festival on January 15, 2019) and the Russian premiere of the full version of the vocal cycle "Correspondances" by Kaija Saariaho for soprano and orchestra (a gala concert "Faces of Music" for the theatre's 30th anniversary on April 24, 2021).
Since August 2021, he has held the position of Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Moscow theatre "Novaya Opera."
In 2022, he became the Music Director of the Epiphany Festival at the New Opera Theatre, which took place from January 19 to 23. The festival included a concert performance of Jules Massenet's opera "Cinderella," a "Turned Concert" (featuring both musicians and audience members on stage, chamber music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the world premiere of Georgy Mansurov's composition "Zeno's Arrow"), and the first performance in Russia of the oratorio "Passions of Simone" by Kaija Saariaho.
