Mikirtumov, Yan 12/14/1974

Yan Mikirtumov was born in Moscow. He started studying music at the Moscow State Choir College of A. Sveshnikov. In 1997 he obtaining a Master degree as a Choir conductor, Singer and Professor at the Academy of Choral Art in Moscow with a thesis on "Genre of Passion Oratorios in the work of Heinrich Schütz". Between 1997/1998 he studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Roman Ledenev. In 2013 he complete his Doctor Degree in Music and Musicology at the University of Évora with thesis “Piano reduction: Three specificities”, where he made a new piano reductions of Concerto da Camera col Violoncello Obbligato by F. Lopes-Graça, Pli selon pli by Pierre Boulez and opera Lady Sarashina by Péter Eötvös, that was published by Ricordi (Germany) in 2014.
Since 1989 he started his career as a solo singer, choir conductor and pianist. He has participated in concert tours and recording in Europe and North America, worked with baroque music ensembles and drama - theatres.
Since 1999 he works and lives in Portugal where he works as a teacher, pianist-accompanist and conductor. His choirs represented Portugal on Choirs Festivals in France, Germany, Greece, Austria, Slovakia and Spain.
He collaborates with various musical entities in Portugal such as: Lisbon Opera Theatre, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, Gulbenkian Foundation, Portuguese National Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Cascais and Oeiras, Classical Orchestra of the South, Porto Symphony Orchestra at Casa da Musica, Madeira Classical Orchestra, Eborae Music, Estoril Interpretation Competition among others. His arrangements and compositions were commissioned by orchestras, chamber music groups and soloists in Portugal, Spain, Romania, Finland and Russia. He participated in several projects in Cape Verde and Angola, among which exclusive arrangements and orchestrations for Tito Paris & Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra Project. Some of his works were edited by publishers "Copy-us" (Germany), AvA Musical Edition (Portugal) and Ricordi (Germany).
He has recorded and participates in recordings of more than 50 CD´s as a conductor, composer, pianist-accompanist and producer including recordings label Melodya, Dargil, Universal, Russian State Radio & Television, NDR (Germany) and Antena2 (Portugal). He was a President and member of jury at Freamunde International Choir Competition and Vocal Art Choir Competition since 2010.
He is regularly invited to accompany instrumentalists and singers. He is currently Pedagogical Director at Metropolitana and professor at Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra.