Yaroslav Zaboyarkin was born in Leningrad in 1987. In 2011 he graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory as a violinist (class of Antonina Kazarina), and in 2016 he graduated as an opera and symphony music conductor (class of Mikhail Kukushkin). In 2013 at the conservatory he organised the programme Concert Projects of Students and Postgraduates.
Has taken part in violin masterclasses held at the Bayerische Musikakademie Marktoberdorf and by the Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland at Schloss Weikersheim, as well as masterclasses conducted by Hatto Beyerle, Stephan Picard, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Fedoseyev and Vassily Sinaisky.
In 2010 he was proclaimed winner of the International Shostakovich Chamber Music Competition in Moscow (in a trio together with cellist Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky and pianist Igor Andreev) and the International String Competition in Gérardmer (France). In 2012 he made his debut as a conductor with the New Japan Philharmonic at the Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting, where he was awarded a diploma as a semi-finalist. In 2016 he was named a prize-winner at the Vivat, Petersburg International Competition of Arts and Performing Skills, and in 2017 he was a prize-winner at the Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors (Katowice, Poland) and a diploma recipient at the Nino Rota International Conducting Competition (Taranto – Matera, Italy). Also in 2017 he was invited to the Järvi Academy (Tallinn – Pärnu), took a course of tuition under Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi and Leonid Grin and conducted the academy’s orchestra in a concert dedicated to commemorating Neeme Järvi’s eightieth birthday; in 2018 and 2019 he continued his traineeship. In 2019 he was an assistant to Paavo Järvi during a tour of Japan by the Estonian Festival Orchestra.
From 2007 to 2011 he was a musician with the St Petersburg State Capella Symphony Orchestra. Since 2011 he was with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra; founder (2020) and Principal Conductor of the New Chamber St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2013 he became a resident conductor of St Petersburg’s Singolo Orchestra, of which he was appointed Principal Conductor and Artistic Director in 2015.
Collaborates with the St Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra and such musicians as Lucas and Arthur Jussen, Polina Osetinskaya, Amit Peled, Frederieke Saeijs, Alexander Rudin, Olesya Petrova, Peter Laul, Anastasia Kalagina, Miroslav Kultyshev, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Nicolas Baldeyrou and Nikita Boriso-Glebsky. Has conducted the first Russian performances of opuses by numerous composers, among them Anton Fils, Kurt Atterberg, Louis Spohr, Johann Adolph Hasse, Jean-Louis Duport, Johann Wilhelm Hertel, Nikolaus Kraft, Leopold Hofmann, Johann Heinrich Facius, Peter Warlock and Dag Ivar Wirén.
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