MIKHAIL SHTANKO

oboe
 

Graduated Moscow Conservatory in 1999 and postgraduate studies a class of Professor Alexey Utkin. Mikhail is a diploma holder of the number of international musical festivals: «Suddenruk Rundfunk» (Shvetsingen, Germany); Mstislav Rostropovich's Festival (Avian, France); «Sacro-Art» (Lokkum, Germany), «Ars-Longa»; the Moscow musical forum; «Edison Denisov's Space» (Moscow); «December Evenings of Svjatoslav Richter» (Moscow). He is the winner of the first award the international competition «Modern art and Education» (Moscow). Mikhail is also known as the composer and the arranger. His compositions were performed in Moscow and Amsterdam at «Gaudeamus» festival. He is an author of set of interesting arrangements for oboe.  Since 2006 he is a member of the State Chamber Orchestra «Virtuosos of Moscow» (Artistic director and Principal conductor Vladimir Spivakov).   Presently Mikhail actively participates in various chamber music projects, performs as a soloist with many orchestras, and teaches the oboe at Academic Music College of Moscow Conservatory. He is the soloist of «Classics-Art» ensemble.