Kind of activity: bass singer

Year of birth: 1969

Occupation: Minister of culture of RB, opera singer

Current occupation: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bashkortostan

Merits: People’s of Bashkortostan (1994), laureate of all-Union Contest named after Glinki (the IV Premium and award “Nadezhda’), laureate of the first Premium of the International Contest named after F.Shalyapin (1993), laureate of the first Premium and Golden Medal of the International Contest Unisa Trensnetin Pretoria (Republic of South Africa, 1994), the possessor of the Maria Callas Grand Prix of the International competition in Athens (Greece, 1995).

Creative biography:

In 1994 year he educated from the Ufa State Institute of Arts of Professor Milyausha Murtazina class. Since 1991 he is the soloists of the Ufa Opera and Ballet Theatre and graduate student of Moscow Conservatory on the class of the People’s Artist of USSR professor Irina Arkhipova. Many opera art devotees are acquainted with the creativity of the talented singer not only in Russia but also abroad. He was on tours in Spain, Germany, Finland, the Republic of South Africa.

In 1995, he made a debut in the Bolshoi theater of Russia in voice parts of Don Bazilio and khan Konchak. In April-May, 1996 he sang the part of Gremin in the performance of «Eugene Onegin» on the stage of the Opera Theater by the name of Dzh.Verdi in Trieste (Italy).

In the repertoire of the singer there are plenty of opera parts. Among them are: «Requiem» by V.Mozart, Don Bazilio («Sevilskiy barber» D.Rossini), Sparafuchille («Rigoletto» Dzh.z Verdi), Tsar of Egypt and Ramfis («Aida» Dzh.Verdi), «Requiem» by Dzh.Verdi, Great inquisitor («Don Karlos» Dzh. Verdi), bass part («Gloria Mass» Dzh. Pucchini), Gremin («Eugene Onegin» P.I.Tchaikovskiy), Konchak («Prince Igor» Borodin), Sobakin («Tsar’s fiancee» Rimskiy-Korsakov), Varangian guest («Sadko» Rimskiy-Korsakov), Baltazar («Favourite» Donitsetti), bass part («Pulchinella» I.Stravinskiy), Aleko and old gipsy («Aleko» S. Rakhmaninov), Pimen («Boris Godunov» Musorgskiy) and Dosifey («Khovanschina» Musorgskiy). 

In September of 2010 year he became the Minister of Culture of RB.