Nikolai Pavlovich Khondzinsky |

Nikolay Khondzinsky

Nikolai Khondzinsky was born in 1985 in Moscow. In 2011 he graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. P. I. Tchaikovsky, where he studied conducting (class of Leonid Nikolaev), composition and orchestration (class of Yuri Abdokov). In 2008-2011, he trained with a professor at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Eduard Serov.

Laureate of the Prize. Boris Tchaikovsky (2008), Moscow Government Prize (2014). Scholarship holder of the Government of the Russian Federation (2019). Laureate of the International Bach Festival “From Christmas to Christmas” (Moscow, 2009, 2010).

Founder (2008), artistic director and conductor of the chamber chapel “Russian Conservatory”. The group, conducted by Nikolai Khondzinsky, performed for the first time many works by Zelenka, Bach, Telemann, Sviridov, and also took part in the projects of the International creative workshop Terra Musika by Yuri Abdokov.

Since 2016 – Artistic Director of the Historical, Cultural and Educational Center “Cathedral Chamber” of the Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanitarian University. Since 2018 – Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Pskov Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (since December 2019 – the Governor’s Symphony Orchestra of the Pskov Region). Many works by Wagner, Mahler, Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Brahms, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were performed for the first time under the direction of Nikolai Khondzinsky in Pskov.

As a guest conductor, he regularly collaborates with the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of Young Opera Singers of the Mariinsky Theatre, orchestras of the St. Petersburg, Pomorskaya (Arkhangelsk), Volgograd, Yaroslavl, Saratov Philharmonics, Russian theaters and ballet companies.

The discography of Nikolai Khondzinsky includes the first recordings of all Shebalin’s choral cycles, Shostakovich’s Songs of the Front Roads and many compositions by Sviridov, Abdokov and Zelenka.