Nikita Sorokin was born in Leningrad in 1990. He graduated from the Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory in 2012 as a musicologist. He worked on Mahler’s symphonies analysis in collaboration with world-renowned Mahler authority Henry-Louis de La Grange. Then he began conducting studies in Conservatoire de Paris with Alain Altinoglu.
In 2016 he was an assistant conductor of Leonard Slatkin and Orchestre National de Lyon during Tchaikovsky’s symphonies cycle. In 2019 he participated in a Master Class with Tugan Sokhiev and the Toulouse National Capitol Orchestra. In the summer of 2019 he was invited to be an assistant conductor at Bregenz Opera Festival (Austria), where he worked on the staging of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin together with Valentin Uryupin. He also participated in numerous workshops organized by Ensemble Intercontemporain and Conservatoire de Paris. In 2020 he worked together with Paul Daniel on Rachmaninov’s Symphony No.3 with the Bordeaux National Orchestra.
Nikita Sorokin began his composition experiments from the age of 6. He composed several pieces of chamber and choral music, which were mainly performed in such places as Mariinsky Theatre in Saint-Petersburg, The Tchaikovsky National Conservatory in Moscow or Panthéon in Paris or at La Roche-Posay Festival of chamber music.
Nikita Sorokin began his composition experiments from the age of 6. He composed several pieces of chamber and choral music, which were mainly performed in such places as Mariinsky Theatre in Saint-Petersburg, The Tchaikovsky National Conservatory in Moscow or Panthéon in Paris or at La Roche-Posay Festival of chamber music.
Verdi: La Forza del destino • Dvorak: Violin concerto • Glinka: Summer night in Madrid • Liadov: Kikimora • Borodin: in the steppes of central asia • Balakirev: Islamey, orch. Casella • Miskolc, Hungary • Guest conductor
Mar.
10
2022
Bregenz Opera Festival • Assistant conductor of Valentin Uriupin
Jul.
21
2022
My music
See List of works
Sonata for oboe and piano
2004
First performance:
The Saint-Petersburg State Academic Capella, 2005.
Alexander Goroshilov, oboe; Nikita Sorokin, piano.
Fugue in C, for piano.
2005
Ultima thule, for a capella choir.
2006
3 pieces dedicated to Alban Berg, for piano.
2007
First performance:
The Saint-Petersburg Union of Composers: Concert Hall.
Performed during the festival «From Avangard till our days», 2008.
Nikita Sorokin, piano.
Passacaglia, for organ.
2012
First performance:
Eglise Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul, Ivry-sur-Seine, France, 2016.
Anna Homenya, organ.
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