Vladimir Tkachenko

In 2007, he graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory, the viola class of Alexei Ludevig, and entered the post-graduate course at the Conservatory, the class of Alexander Richter. He completed courses at the University of Northern Iowa (USA, 2009) under Julia Bullard and the Netherlands String Quartet Academy (2010) under Stefan Metz and Marc Danel. He continued his conducting studies in 2014—2015 at the ADADS — Accademia Dell’Arte Dello Spettacolo (Piacenza, Italy) under Marco Beretta. Since 2016, he has taken lessons with Pr. Fred Buttkewitz of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. He also received the Russian Government Scholarship.

In 2009, he joined the Kyiv Soloists National Ensemble and the Collegium String Quartet. In 2011, he became a soloist with the orchestra of the Buryat Opera and Ballet Theatre (Ulan-Ude) and an assistant to the theatre’s principal conductor. A year later, he became a theatre’s conductor. In 2013, with support from the Ministry of Culture of Buryatia, he established the Youth Chamber Orchestra of Buryatia. From 2015 to 2019, he was the conductor of the Buryat State Philharmonic Society. Since season 2019/2020, he has been a soloist with the orchestra and conductor of the Perm Opera. Since season 2023/2024, he is the principal conductor of the Theatre.

Musical director and conductor of the following performances: Sevagin/Samodurov/Pimonov to music by Vivaldi, Rannev and Svetlichny (world premiere, 2022), La voix humaine by Poulenc-Gorlinsky (world premiere, 2023), Prokofiev’s Cinderella (revival, 2024), Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades (2024), Stravinsky’s Orpheus, Samson and Delilah by Saint-Saëns (2025), Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (revival, 2025), and Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride (2026).

His repertoire as a conductor includes Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Cosi fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte, Bizet’s Carmen, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Bellini’s Norma, Verdi’s Aida, Rigoletto and La traviata, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer, Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and The Nutcracker, Minkus’s La Bayadère, Prokofiev’s Chout (The Buffoon) and Romeo and Juliet, Schaherezade to music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Les Patineurs to music by Meyerbeer, Anyuta to music by Valery Gavrilin, Tishchenko’s Yaroslavna, Variations on a Rococo Theme to music by Tchaikovsky.

He has collaborated with such orchestras as the Moscow Soloists, Novaya Rossiya, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra (Primorsky Stage), Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Belarusian State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Minsk Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Camerata, Mongolian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of St. Petersburg Philharmonia, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Irkutsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Nizhny Novgorod Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Tomsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Sochi Symphony Orchestra, and others.

Vladimir Tkachenko’s performances have been recorded for radio and television archives. The musician has also recorded two CDs with the Chamber Orchestra of St. Petersburg Philharmonia and the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra.

In 2023, he was nominated for the Russian theatre award “Golden Mask” for his conducting work in the ballets Ultima Thule and Arctica.