Stanislav Kochanovsky

Stanislav KOCHANOVSKY was born in Saint Petersburg in 1981. He graduated with honors from the St. Petersburg Conservatory with three majors: choral conducting in the class of T. Khitrova (2004), organ with N. Oxentyan (2004), and Opera and Symphony conducting with A. Titov (2008).
During his training, he participated in master classes of Colin Metters, ERI Klas, Mikhail Yurovsky, Viktor Yampolsky and Yuri Simonov, receiving excellent recommendations: "He is a real intellectual musician, fluent in conducting techniques, with a strong sense of sound and style" - wrote Colin Metters; "I consider Stanislav Kochanovsky one of the brightest and most promising young conductors in Russia today" – wrote Viktor Yampolsky.

In 2010, Kochanovsky became chief conductor of the academic Symphony orchestra of the North Caucasus state Philharmonic named After V. I. Safonov. Over the years, the conductor has prepared more than 50 Symphony programs, conducted 5 festivals and produced 6 Opera performances. The most notable events were: Scriabin's Prometheus with a light installation and Scriabin's Third Symphony "divine poem", Rachmaninoff's Symphony cycle and the production of the Opera "Aleko", Mahler's "Song of the earth"; for the first time, compositions by Webern and Ligeti, Chalaev and Bronner, Gould and Barber were performed on the Caucasian Mineral Waters.

Tours with the orchestra to Kazan, Vladikavkaz, and Moscow elicited excellent reviews in the press: "the Philharmonic Orchestra on Kavminvody under the direction of Stanislav Kochanovsky proved to be a strong, collected, and balanced team. In a short time, the conductor was able to achieve almost perfect contact with the orchestra, and the musicians readily and adequately responded to every gesture and even smile of the Maestro" - wrote the newspaper Musical news about the concert in Moscow in the hall. Tchaikovsky's.

The Opera made its debut in the 2006/2007 season at the Chamber theater "Saint Petersburg Opera" and at the Opera Studio of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. From 2007 to 2010, Kochanovsky worked at the Mikhailovsky theatre, with which he toured the stages of the English National Opera (London)and La Fenice (Venice).

As a guest conductor, he took part in productions of the Mariinsky theatre, the Novaya Opera theatre (Moscow), the St Petersburg Opera, the musical Comedy Theatre (St Petersburg), and the Flemish Opera (Belgium). The conductor's repertoire includes more than 30 Opera and ballet performances.

"By the time he was 30, he had become one of the best young conductors in the country, playing with all the iconic Russian bands. It is already obvious that the young man is a real phenomenon. It is stunningly, uniquely modern in its sense of music and style. It easily and elegantly takes the musicians from the epic scale to the most delicate, subtle pianissimo, and the orchestra of 120 instruments sounds ... a hot, sensual whisper" - writes UDM-info about the closing of the festival "in the Homeland of P. I. Tchaikovsky" with GASO. Svetlanova.

In 2013, Kochanovsky made his debut at the Valery Gergiev festival “Stars of white nights " with the Mariinsky theatre orchestra. "It was a Co-sound, no other way... it was as if the orchestra, conductor, and performer were one. Thank you for the unearthly pleasure!– - Musical Klondike about Chopin's piano concertos with Philip Kopachevsky.

Stanislav Kochanovsky collaborates with leading orchestras in Russia: the Academic Symphony orchestra of Russia. Svetlanova, the National Philharmonic orchestra of Russia, the Academic Symphony orchestra of the Moscow and St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the New Russia Symphony orchestra, the Mariinsky theatre Symphony orchestra, the Capella Symphony orchestra, and the state Hermitage Orchestra.

In parallel with his positions in Russia, his international career is also rapidly developing, including performances with such ensembles as the Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic, the Haydn orchestra of Trento, I Pomeriggi Musicali Milan, the Tito Schipa Symphony orchestra (Italy), the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt radio Orchestra, the Finnish radio Orchestra, the Israeli Symphony orchestra, the Silesia Philharmonic (Poland), the Lithuanian State Symphony orchestra, the Tallinn Chamber orchestra, and the Symphony orchestra Antalya.

In April 2014, he made his debut with the Orchestra Of the national Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. "Stanislav Kochanovsky was a real discovery. This is a young conductor who is destined to become one of the main characters in the musical life of the near future. Did he demonstrate this ??plasticity and talent, as well as the ability to animate and lead the orchestra. A brilliant discovery... A beautiful performance, where there was power and brilliance, but at the same time clarity, transparency and lyricism" - said journalist Michele Suozzo after a live broadcast on radio RAI3.

Future seasons include engagements with the La Verdi Symphony orchestras (Milan), the RAI Orchestra (Turin), the Ile de France national orchestra, the Northern Netherlands Orchestra, and a tour with GASO im. Svetlanova in Germany.