Artem Grishaev

Biography

Born in the family of musicians Artem Grishaev graduated from Music College of the Moscow Conservatory and from 2002 to 2007 was the student of the Moscow State Conservatory, studying with Nikolai Petrov and Tigran Alikhanov. In 2009-2011 he has been the member of the Young Artist Program of the Bolshoi Theatre and worked with the such estimated coaches and conductors as George Darden, Luba Orfenova, Vladimir Yurowski, Dmitri Yurowski, Evgeny Nesterenko, Irina Bogacheva, Laura Claycomb, Christopher Moulds, Semyon Skigin etc. His music staff affiliations started with the numerous projects of the Moscow State Philarmonic Society: the concert performances of Gounod`s “Romeo et Juliette”, Bizet`s “Les Pecheurs des Perles”, Offenbach`s “Les Contes d`Hoffmann”, Donizetti`s “Anna Bolena”, Handel`s “Alcina”, Humperdinck`s “Hansel und Gretel”, Mozart`s “The clemency of Titus“, Thomas`s “Hamlet”, Donizetti`s “Roberto Devereux”, R. Strauss’s “Salome” with Vladimir Yurowski and Rossini`s “Tancredi” and “Ermione” assisting Alberto Zedda. He has accompanied at the Queen Elizabeth International Competition in Brussels, the World Opera Competition “Operalia” in Moscow, International Contest of Italian Opera (“Competizione dell` Opera”) and Queen Sonja International Music Competition in Oslo. In 2011 he joined the Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program. In his two seasons with WNO, Artem Grishaev served as Assistant Conductor for “Così fan tutte” and “Don Giovanni”, “Hansel and Gretel”. He also took part in the project of Washington National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach (Beethoven`s “Fidelio” concert performance). In the summer of 2012 he joined San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program for the production of Mozart`s “La finta giardiniera” and Schwabacher Summer Concert. Since 2013 Artem Grishaev is the member of the music staff of the Bolshoi Theatre – assisting “Don Carlo”, “Der fliegende Holländer”, “Le Nozze di Figaro”, “Cosi fan Tutte”, “L'Enfant et les Sortilèges”, “Rigoletto”, “Queen of Spades”, “The maid of Orleans”, “La damnation de Faust”, “Don Pasquale”, “Rodelinda”, “Billy Budd”, “The Tsar`s bride”, “La Bohème”, “Sadko”, “Khovanshchina”. In 2015 assisted Mikhail Yurowsky for the concert performance of “The Tsar`s bride” in Philharmonie de Paris and Jesus Lopez Cobos for “La mort de Cléopâtre”. In 2023 he participated in #OperaMarathon project at the Zaryadye Concert Hall (Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta”, conductor Ivan Rudin). In 2024 was invited as a rehearsal pianist for the new production of “The Gambler” by Prokofiev at the Salzburg Festival (Timur Zangiev/Peter Sellars).