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The Russian baritone, Dmitry Stepanovich, graduated from the Gnessin School of Music as a musicologist in 1993. In 1998 he graduated with distinction from the Vocal Department of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (class of Pyotr Gluboky).
From 1996 to 2016, Dmitry Stepanovich was a soloist with the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre. In 1998, he received the 1st Prize of the 2nd International Rachmaninov Competition. He has been nominated three times for the Golden Mask Award in the Best Male Opera Part category for his appearances as Arkel in Debussy's Pelléas and Melisande (2008), Scribe in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's May Night (2009) and as four villains: Lindorf, Coppelius, Dapertutto and Dr. Miracle in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (2012) in respective productions at the Moscow Academic Music Theatre.
Dmitry Stepanovich's repertoire also includes Ruslan and Farlaf in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila, Saltan in N. Rimsky-Korsakov's Tale of Tsar Saltan, Ibn-Haqia in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, the Commander in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Dulcamara and Raymondo in Donizetti's L’elisir d’amore and Lucia di Lammermoor, Montano in Verdi's Otello, Schonard, Angelotti, Bonzo in Puccini's La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Don Pizarro in L.v. Beethoven's Fidelio, Mephistopheles in Charles Gounod's Faust, Frank in Strauss' Die Fledermaus, Demon in Anton Rubinstein's Demon, Don Basilio, Mustapha in Rossini's The Barber of Seville and L'italiana in Algeri, the Judge in Massenet's Werther, Mendoza, Bolkonsky in Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery and War and Peace) and many other roles.
Dmitry Stepanovich also has an extensive concert repertoire. He has performed the bass parts in Requiems by W.A. Mozart and Verdi, L.v. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 and Magnificat in D major BWV 243, George Frideric Handel's Messiah, Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, Grechaninov's Missa Oecumenica and Liturgia S. Ioannis Crysostomi, domestika, as well as numerous cantatas and oratorios.
Dmitry Stepanovich participated in Russia’s first performance of Rossini's Mosè in Egitto (title part), and Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di anima, et di corpo (Corpo). He is also the first performer of the part of Jesus Christ in the Russian Passion oratorio by Alexei Larin.
Dmitry Stepanovich has appeared with orchestras and choirs under Vladimir Ponkin, Valery Polyansky, Yuri Bashmet, Gennady Dmitriak, Galina Koltsova and Igor Golovschin. He has composed works in various genres including eight sonatas for bass and piano and several vocal cycles. He has released several CD's of vocal and piano music, notably The Boxwood Arrow (2006), an album for which he composed music and lyrics, but also recorded both the vocal and the piano part
In 2010 Dmitry Stepanovich founded and headed the ensemble of soloists Voci di ricci at the Lomonosov Moscow State University’s Early Music Theatre. Under his guidance, the ensemble became a prize-winner at the Starfall of Talents competition in Russia and at the Chorus Inside International Festival in Italy (2013). |
