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The Raussian bass-baritone, Ilia Mazurov [Russian: Илья Мазуров], graduated from Krasnoyarsk College of Arts in class academic choir conducting. During the studying in College he became the winner of Russian and International vocal and conducting competitions. From 2009 to 2014 he studied conducting and singing in St. Petersburg Conservatory (Valentin Nesterov) and participated in vocal master-classes of Elena Obraztsova. In 2017 he participated in Cesti Baroque Competition (Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Austria). In 2021, he became a semi-finalist of Froville Baroque Competition and Concours Cornelle in Rouen.
Ilia Mazurov has performed parts in operas of Charpentier, Lully, Rameau, Monteverdi, W.A. Mozart, Rodriguez de Hita, various cantatas and oratorio works (George Frideric Handel's and Antonio Lotti's Dixit Dominus, W.A. Mozart’s Requiem, J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D major BWV 243, Mass in B minor BWV 232 and Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 & Johannes-Passion BWV 245; J. Haydn’s oratorios The Seasons and The Creation; Purcell’s Te Deum, Dietrich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri, Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces, L.v. Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Franz Liszt's Via Crucis, etc.) and also chamber music (vocal works of Schubert, Robert Schumann, etc.) In 2015-2016, he performed the main part in the opera of Martín-y-Soler and Catherine the Great Gorebogatyr-Kosometovich and participated in reconstruction of first Russian-language opera Cephalus and Prokris (Francisco Araiza, Alexander Sumarokov) at the festival Early Music (St.-Petersburg, directed by Andrey Reshetin), also perfomed part in this opera in Bolshoi theatre (Moscow, 2017). In 2019 he performed the role of Celenus in Lully’s Opera Atys at the Heritage theater (Saint-Petersburg) and worked as part of a vocal ensemble by Andrew Parrott’s condacting in Earlymusic Festival Saint-Petersburg 2020. In 2021 Ilia participated in Eeemerging+ program to perform roles in Carissimi, Charpentier and Rossi’s oratorios. In 2022 this program was performed in Festival d'Ambronay. In 2023 he took part in the performance of M. Falvetti’s oratorio Il diluvio universale with maestro Leonardo García-Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea at the festivals Misteria Paschalia in Krakow (Poland) and Les coups de coeur a Chantilly (France), and also performed D. Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri in a Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. In 2024, the album “Dixit Dominus – G.F. Handel/A. Lotti” by the ensemble Les Argonautes with the participation of Ilia Mazurov was released on the Aparte label. In 2024 he performed the baritone part in F. Liszt's oratorio Via Crucis at the Festival Berlioz in La Côte-Saint-André, and as part of the Kalifonica Vocal Quartet, he presented a program of sacred music from the Renaissance at Patmos Chamber Music Festival (Greece).
Ilia Mazurov colaborateswith various orchestras and ensembles Le Concert d'Astrée (Director: Emmanuelle Haïm), Correspondances, Utopia, Paris Philharmonic orchestra, Cantoria, Ensemble Pygmalion (Director: Raphaël Pichon), Spirito, Cappella Mediterranea (Director: Leonardo García-Alarcón), Musica Aeterna Bratislava, Les Argonautes (Director: Jonas Descotte), Choir of Radio France, Kalifonica Vocal Quartet, Persimfans, The Soloists of Catherine the Great, Barocco Concertate, The Pocket Symphony, Mariinsky Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Emmanuelle Haïm, Sébastienorchestra, Synergy Orchestra, Chamber Soloists of Minsk, etc.) and musicians Daucé, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Raphaël Pichon, Nicole Corti, Leonardo García-Alarcón, Andrew Parrott, Geoffroy Jourdain, Teodor Currentzis, Jonas Descotte, Valery Gergiev, Andrey Reshetin, Thierry Peteau, Jérôme Correas, Maria Krestinskaya, Leo Kraemer, Nazar Kozhukhar, Dmitry Zubov, Fyodor Lednev, Florian Helgath, GrigoryKrotenko). He currently lives in Ambronay, France. |
