Dmitry Batin

Conductor, composer, Assistant Professor in the Department of String and Wind Instruments, and Lecturer in the Department of Choral Conducting and Solo Singing at the Perm State Institute of Art and Culture.

Batin graduated from the Faculty of Choral Conducting at the Nizhny Novgorod Glinka State Conservatory in 1998 (class of Nikolay Pokrovsky). He has worked at the Tchaikovsky Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre since 2004, and has been Principal Chorus Master since 2010.

Batin has been the Chorus Master–Producer of such operas as Stravinsky’s The Nightingale (2005), Dvorak’s …by the name of Rusalochka (2005), Banevich’s The Snow Queen (2005, revived in 2008) and Twelve Months (2008), Britten’s The Little Sweep (2012), his own opera The Malachite Casket (2012), and Ravel’s ballet Daphnis et Chloé (2010). Batin has written operas for children — Ivan Semyonov’s Passion (2007), A Christmas Carol (2010), and The Malachite Casket (2012), as well as a number of choral compositions. He was involved in the preparation of a cycle of symphony concerts.

Batin has directed the children’s choir at Children’s Music School No.2 inPerm and the Mlada Choir (Artistic Director Olga Vyguzova). Since 2005, he has been the conductor of the chamber orchestra (Artistic Director Lyudmila Ivonina) and head of the opera class in the Department of Solo Singing at Perm Institute of Art and Culture. He directs the choir of the Department of Vocal Art at Perm Music College.