Yuri Evchuk

Biography

Graduate of the National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music of Ukraine (2009). He won the 11th International Balaton-Youth-Art Festival and Competition (Hungary, 2011, Grand Prix) and the Spring of Romance Competition in Saint Petersburg (2012, first prize). In 2013 he took second prize in the 3rd Maxim Mikhailov Competition for Young Opera Singers in Kaluga. In 2014 he won the 1st International Opera Without Borders Competition for Young Opera Singers in Krasnodar. From 2008 to 2011 he was a soloist for the Kiev Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet for Children and Youth. Since 2011 he has been a soloist for the Mariinsky Theatre Academy of Young Opera Singers. He has been part of the Larisa Gergieva and Guests Festival in Vladikavkaz (2012, 2013) and of the Helsinki Art Festival (2014) where he collaborated with Esa-Pekka Salonen on Shostakovich’s opera Orango (as bass soloist). He has performed on tour in France, Poland, Switzerland, Finland, Israel, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Estonia, and China.