Yuri was born in Volgograd in 1982. He is an assistant to the Principal Conductor of the Volgograd Academic Symphony Orchestra, a senior lecturer at the Volgograd State Institute of Arts and Culture. Yuri is also studying at the conducting faculty of the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatoire.
Laureate of Russian national and international contests:
1998 - The 1st prize at the International competition “Symphony” (Volgograd);
2003 - The 1st Prize at the 7th International Competition for Young Performers
in Togliatti;
2004 - The 1st prize at the Third Youth Delphic Games of Russia (Volgograd);
2004 – The 2nd prize at the IV S.S. Prokofiev International Competition in Saint-Petersburg;
Participants of the Open Regional S. V. Rachmaninoff Music Festival in Saint-Petersburg.
