Ruslan Fatkhutdinov was born in 2008 in the town of Lesnoy in the Sverdlovsk Region. From the age of six, he studied at the Children’s Music School of Lesnoy under the guidance of Evgeny and Svetlana Smirnov. Since 2020, he has been a student of the Secondary Special Music School affiliated with the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, where he studies in the class of Ekaterina Kulagina.
He is a laureate of international competitions:
2021
- First Prize winner at the International festival-competition Tallinn Fest among CIS countries (Tallinn)
2022
- Second Prize winner at the 6th International Music Competition GoodWin Art (Moscow)
2024
- First Prize winner at the 5th International Competition for Wind Instrument Performers Moscow Wind (Moscow)
2025
- Second Prize winner at the International Music Competition Crescendo Competition (Saint Petersburg)
2026
- First Prize winner at the 7th International Competition named after S. I. Savshinsky (Saint Petersburg)
He has taken part in master classes with Sergei Kolesov, Vladimir Koznov, Nikita Zimin, and Leonid Drutin.
He is a scholarship holder of the New Names Foundation.
He has participated in a number of major creative and educational programs, including the 2nd Music Academy of Atomic Cities under the patronage of Yuri Bashmet (2019), the Sirius Educational Center (2021), the Artek International Children’s Center (2022), the World Youth Festival (2024), and the New Names Summer Creative School (2024).
He has collaborated with leading orchestras, including the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Philharmonia, the Capella Symphony Orchestra, the Tavrichesky Symphony Orchestra, and the Saint Petersburg Saxophone Orchestra.
