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The Russian conductor, Igor Verbitsky, graduated the famous Leningrad Conservatoire named after N. Rimsky-Korsakov with the highest honor in choir conducting in 1989 (professor E. Kudrjavtseva); then in operatic and symphonic conducting in 1995 (professor R. Martynov). He spent one year in Germany in 1991 as an excellent student under training of professors H.-D. Resch and J. Starek at the High School for Music and Thetre in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (1991-1992).
Since September 1992, Igor Verbitsky has been the Resident Conductor of the Voronezh Philharmonic Orchestra, Russia. He performed various symphonic works with this orchestra from Viennese Classics to Bartok, Stravinsky and Richard Strauss. He managed the orchestra in many prestige musical festivals: The Rachmaninov Festival in Tambov, The Tchaikovsky Festival in lzhevsk and Votkinsk, The Platonov International Arts Festival in Voronezh and others. He successfully cooperated with internationally acclaimed soloists Nikolai Petrov, David Geringas, M. Kasrashvili, Z. Sotkilava, Boris Berezovsky, S. Tarassov, A. Baeva, T. Alikhanov, B. Andrianov, Alexander Melnikov, S. Slovachevsky and others. Extremely active as a guest conductor, he had a great number of successful concerts in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Belgorod, Kislovodsk, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saratov, Tambov, Volgograd (Russia), cities of Azerbaidjan, Czech Republic, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Taiwan, Ukraine and others.
In 1995 Igor Verbitsky successfully managed the Voronezh Philharmonic Orchestra during their very first Germany tour. Their performance of the Oratorio To the unknown God by contemporary Swiss composer A. Jenny with the Berlin Commune "Lindenkirche" church Choir in Berlin and in Dresden was received with critical acclaim. Their concerts of Russian and German classic music had also great success. From September 1996 to May 2008, he was the Conductor and the Musical Adviser of the St. Petersburg Musical Comedy Theatre. In addition to performing of the main repertoire he took the lead in world premiere of opera Caliph the Stork by Russian composer Olga Petrova.
From September 1997 to May 2002, Igor Verbitsky has also been teaching at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire. Some of his students were invited to be leading soloists of the Mariinsky (Kirov) Theatre. During this period there were a revival of Betrothal in Cloister (Duenna) by S. Prokofiev and ballet Les Sylphides by F. Chopin /A. Glazunov at the Opera Theatre of St. Petersburg Conservatoire.
Recent years were full of fruitful collaboration with The International Piano Duos Festival of The St. Petersburg Conservatoire, The Students Chamber Orchestra of St. Petersburg Conservatoire and The Chamber orchestra of St. Petersburg State Hermitage Museum. From 2007 to 2010, he was the Principal Guest Conductor of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Saratov State Philharmonic Society.
In 2009 the name of Igor Verbitsky was included in the encyclopedia Who is Who in Russia as other well-known musicians of Russia. In 2011 he got from Governor of the Region a special title "The Honored Artist of Voronezh Region". In autumn 2011, together with the Voronezh Philharmonic Orchestra he managed a very successful tour in Austria, Czech Republic, Italy and Slovenia. In 2012 he received the diploma of the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation "For the big contribution to development of culture". In 2013 he was awarded the honorary diploma of the Union of composers of Russia for participation in the national festival "Panorama of Russian Music in Voronezh". In 2015 he performed a series of concerts devoted to the 90 anniversary of the Voronezh Symphony Orchestra in Voronezh and in St. Petersburg. In 2016 he was awarded by the government of the Voronezh region "Gratitude from the Land of Voronezh" |
