Alexei Bogorad

Born into a family of conductor Vladimir Bogorad, in 2001, he graduated with honours from the Moscow State Conservatory where he studied clarinet under professor Vladimir Sokolov and, in 2009, in conducting under the tuition of Maestro Gennady Rozhdestvensky. A solo clarinetist of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra from 1997–2011 and of the Russian National Orchestra from 2001–2011. During these years he appeared alongside such first-rank conductors as Evgeny Svetlanov, Yuri Temirkanov, Valery Gergiev, Semyon Bychkov, Paavo Berglund, Charles Dutoit and Kent Nagano.

From 2011–2012, he was assistant conductor to maestro Vladimir Jurowski at the Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra. He appeared with this ensemble, as well as with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, at the XV Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow in 2015.

Now he works as conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. He appears with the leading Russian orchestras. He performs with the orchestras in Croatia, Norway, Lithuania and the Ukraine. He conducts performances at the Mikhailovsky Theatre and at the opera houses in Naples, Prague, Belgrade and Perm. Maestro Bogorad’s repertoire includes operas and ballets of three centuries, from Mozart to Prokofiev and Berg.

Since 2015, he has been a guest conductor of the Ural Opera Ballet where his repertoire includes La Fille mal gardée, Romeo and Juliet, La Bayadère, La Bohème, Giselle, La Naïade et le pêcheur, Turandot.

Prize winner of the Stefan Turchak International Conducting Competition in Kiev (2010, 2nd prize) and of the Lovro von Matacic International Conducting Competition in Zagreb (2011, 1st prize).