Pavel Teplov was born in Leningrad in 1987. In 2005 he graduated from St Petersburg’s Glinka Choir College, and in 2011 – from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (choral conducting class of Tatiana Khitrova). He is currently undertaking further professional training at the conservatory in the opera and symphonic conducting class of Vladimir Altshuler.
In 2007 Pavel Teplov joined the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. During 2009–2024 he served as its Chorus Master. Since January 2024 he has been leading the Mariinsky Chamber Chorus, founded earlier that year on the basis of the academy’s soloists’ ensemble.
Pavel Teplov has worked as chorus master on more than one hundred Mariinsky Theatre productions, concert opera performances and concert programmes. He has collaborated on new productions and revivals with such directors as Arnaud Bernard, David Pountney, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Yannis Kokkos, Alain Maratrat, Mariusz Treliński, Isabelle Partiot-Pieri, Sláva Daubnerová, Alexei Stepanyuk, Yuri Alexandrov, Vasily Barkhatov, Alexander Petrov, Vyacheslav Starodubtsev, Alexey Frandetti and others.
Has participated in the preparation and performance of works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (The Enchantress, Iolanta, The Oprichnik), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Christmas Eve, Kashchey the Immortal, Mozart and Salieri, May Night, Pan Voyevoda, Servilia), Alexander Grechaninov (Dobrynya Nikitich), Catterino Cavos (Ivan Susanin), Alexander Dargomyzhsky (The Stone Guest, Esmeralda), Modest Musorgsky (Sorochintsy Fair, Salammbô), Sergei Rachmaninoff (Francesca da Rimini), Sergei Taneyev (Oresteia, John of Damascus), Eduard Nápravník (Dubrovsky), Sergei Prokofiev (The Love for Three Oranges, Maddalena, The Giant, Ballad of the Boy Who Remained Unknown, On Guard for Peace), Dmitri Shostakovich (The Nose, Orango, Moscow, Cheryomushki), Mieczysław Weinberg (The Idiot), Rodion Shchedrin (Not Love Alone, Lolita), David Krivitsky (Doctor Zhivago), Sergei Banevich (The Story of Kai and Gerda), Dmitry Kabalevsky (Colas Breugnon), Kirill Molchanov (The Dawns Here Are Quiet), Nikolai Karetnikov (The Mystery of the Apostle Paul), Alexander Tchaikovsky (The Chess King), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, La clemenza di Tito), Gioacchino Rossini (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Il viaggio a Reims, L’italiana in Algeri, La Cenerentola, La gazza ladra), Vincenzo Bellini (Beatrice di Tenda, La sonnambula), Gaetano Donizetti (L’elisir d’amore, Don Pasquale, Anna Bolena, La Fille du régiment, Linda di Chamounix, Lucrezia Borgia, Il pirata, La favorita), Giuseppe Verdi (Requiem, Il trovatore), Giacomo Puccini (La fanciulla del West, Manon Lescaut, La rondine), Ruggero Leoncavallo (Pagliacci), Amilcare Ponchielli (La Gioconda), Alberto Franchetti (Cristoforo Colombo), Gaspare Spontini (La vestale), Umberto Giordano (Siberia), Carl Maria von Weber (Sylvana), Johann Strauss II (Die Fledermaus), Engelbert Humperdinck (Hänsel und Gretel), Hector Berlioz (Benvenuto Cellini), Jules Massenet (Don Quichotte, Werther, Cendrillon, Cléopâtre), Georges Bizet (Les Pêcheurs de perles), Léo Delibes (Lakmé), Maurice Duruflé (Requiem), Antonín Dvořák (Rusalka), Leonard Bernstein (Candide, Chichester Psalms) and Manuel de Falla (La vida breve) among many others.
In 2010 he took part as the chorus master and a soloist (a Company Commander) in the production of Eugene Onegin at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
Pavel Teplov is Artistic Director and Conductor of the Youth Choir SoGlasie, with which he regularly participates in concert performances of operas (Christmas Eve, Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin, La traviata, Tannhäuser, Tosca, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci) at the Grand Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonia and other venues, as well as in concerts, festivals and official ceremonial events. Since 2014 a special place in the choir’s artistic life has been occupied by the annual gala concert Classics on Palace Square. The ensemble has also contributed to a number of films, including Matilda by Alexey Uchitel (2017).
Since 2025 the artist has been also conducting St Petersburg’s Phoenix Orchestra.
Pavel Teplov is a member of the Cultural Council of the St Petersburg Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church.
He served as the editor of the sheet-music collection Sacred Music of St Petersburg. The Beginning of the 21st Century (2019), accompanied by a CD.
In 2020 the ensemble of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers and Pavel Teplov received the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg’s most prestigious theatre prize, for their work on Lolita.
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