Denis Matvienko

• Prize-winner at the IV International Ballet Competition in Luxemburg (Grand Prix, 1997).
• Prize-winner at the III International Rudolf Nureyev Ballet Competition in Budapest (Grand Prix, 1998).
• Prize-winner at the III International Modern Dance and Classical Choreography Competition (Gold Medal and Vaslav Nijinsky Prize, Nagoya, Japan, 1999).
• Prize-winner at the Х International Moscow Ballet Dancers’ and Choreographers’ Competition (Grand Prix, Moscow, 2005).
• Recipient of the Spirit of Dance prize in the category “Star” (2008).
• Recipient of the DANCE OPEN International Ballet Prize in the category “Best Partners” (2011).
• Recipient of the chest badge for “Achievements in Culture” from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan (2009).

Born in Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine).
Between 1989 and 1997 he studied at the Kiev State School of Dance, class of Valery Parsegov.
As a student of the graduation class, he made his debut at the National Opera of Ukraine in the ballet The Sleeping Beauty as Prince Désiré.
From 1997 to 2001 he was a soloist at the National Shevchenko Opera House of Ukraine (Kiev).
From 2001 to 2002 he was a first soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre.
During that season he performed roles in ballets including La Sylphide (James), Le Corsaire (Ali), Don Quixote (Basilio), Jewels (Emeralds) and Theme and Variations. He was the first performer of the role of the Prince in Alexei Ratmansky’s ballet Cinderella (2002).
Principal Dancer at the National Opera House of Ukraine from 2003 to 2007.
Principal Dancer at the Mikhailovsky Theatre from October 2007 to March 2009.
As a guest artist he has performed at the New National Theatre in Tokyo (2002), the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia (since 2005), the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (from 2007) and the Opéra de Paris (from 2007).
Mariinsky Theatre soloist since 2009.

His repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
La Sylphide (James); choreography by August Bournonville,
Le Corsaire (Ali),
Giselle (Count Albrecht),
La Bayadère (Solor); choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Vakhtang Chabukiani,
Swan Lake (Siegfried); choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev,
Don Quixote (Basilio),
Shurale (Ali-Batyr); choreography by Leonid Yakobson,
Romeo and Juliet (Romeo); choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky,
Carmen Suite (Torero); choreography by Alberto Alonso,
George Balanchine’s ballets Jewels (Emeralds), Theme and Variations, Symphony in C (First Movement) and Tarantella,
In the Night; choreography by Jerome Robbins,
Études; choreography by Harald Lander,
Grand Pas Classique; choreography by Viktor Gzovsky,
Alexei Ratmansky’s ballets Cinderella (Prince) and The Little Humpbacked Horse (Ivan the Fool),
In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated; choreography by William Forsythe;
Ondine (Matteo), choreography by Pierre Lacotte;
adagio from the ballet Proust ou les intermittences du coeur;
Without, choreography by Benjamin Millepied;
Radio and Juliet, choreography by Edward Clug.

Repertoire also includes:
Le Corsaire (Conrad), The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Désiré), The Nutcracker (Prince), Raymonda (Jean de Brienne), Don Quixote (Basilio, choreography by Rudolf Nureyev), Carmen Suite (José, choreography by Alberto Alonso; Romeo and Juliet (Romeo, choreography by Kenneth MacMillan); Prodigal Son (Prodigal Son), La Fille mal gardée (Colin), Chopiniana (choreography by Michel Fokine), Manon (Des Grieux, choreography by Kenneth MacMillan), The Three Musketeers (D’Artagnan) and La Dame aux Camélias (Armand, choreography by Asami Maki), The Golden Age (Boris), Spartacus (Spartacus, choreography by Yuri Grigorovich) and Spartacus (Spartacus, choreography by Georgy Kovtun).