Yaramir Nizamutdinov

Tenor

• Finalist and Audience Choice Award winner at the 1^st International Feodor Chaliapin Competition for Young Opera Singers (St Petersburg, 2023; also awarded three special prizes – by the Legislative Assembly of St Petersburg, by the festival To See the Music and by the St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra under Fabio Mastrangelo)
• Recipient of the St Petersburg Government Prize in Culture and Arts for 2021 (for the role of Vakula in the opera Cherevichki)
• Prize-winner at the 22^nd St Petersburg Competition Spring of Romance (2021; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 7^th St Petersburg Competition Spring of Pop Song (2021; 1^st prize)
• Recipient of the St Petersburg Government Prize in Culture and Arts for 2019 (for the role of Phoebus de Chateaupers in the opera Esmeralda)
• Prize-winner at the 47^th All-Russian Review Competition of Graduate Vocalists of Higher Institutes of Music (St Petersburg, 2019; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 13^th Open Republican Vocal Competition named after S. Saidashev (Nizhnekamsk, 2017; 2^nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 9^th International Television Competition for Young Performers Tatar mony (“Tatar Melody”) in the “Academic Vocal” category (Kazan, 2017; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 14^th International Festival of Tatar Song named after Rashit Vagapov (Kazan, 2017; 2^nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 4^th International Television Competition for Young Performers Tatar mony (“Tatar Melody”) in the “Folk Singing” category (Kazan, 2012; 3^rd prize)
• Prize-winner at the All-Russian Songwriting Competition among the personnel of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (Balashikha, Moscow Region, 2012; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 4^th Open Interregional Festival-Competition of Performers of Tatar Song and Instrumental Music Ural sandugachy (“Ural Nightingale”) (Yekaterinburg, 2011; 3^rd prize)

Yaramir Nizamutdinov was born in the village of Yuldus, Kurgan Region. In 2011 he graduated from the Faculty of Physical Culture and Social Security of Shadrinsk State Pedagogical University (Kurgan Region), and in 2019 – from the Zhiganov Kazan State Conservatoire (class of Raida Ermokhina).

While a student at the Kazan Conservatoire, the artist became a trainee soloist at the State Opera of Tatarstan, where he portrayed Ivan the Terrible in the world premiere of the opera Süyümbike by Rezeda Akhiyarova (2018), and also appeared as Altoum (Turandot), the Boyar in Attendance (Boris Godunov) and the Master of Ceremonies (The Queen of Spades). In 2018 and 2019 Yaramir Nizamutdinov performed at the International Feodor Chaliapin Opera Festival.

From 2012 to 2018 he sang in the duet Ber avaz (“One Voice”) with People’s Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan Ferdinand Salakhov.

From 2019 to 2024 the artist was a soloist with the St Petersburg Chamber Opera, where he performed the roles of the Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Pollione (Norma), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Vakula (Cherevichki), Igor (Bizet’s Ivan the Terrible), Phoebus de Chateaupers (Dargomyzhsky’s Esmeralda), Sir Edgar Aubry (Marschner’s Der Vampyr), Gaston, Vicomte de Letorières (La traviata), the Wood Goblin, the Huntsman and the Frog (Cui’s Little Red Riding Hood). Has toured with the theatre company to Dubai, Cairo, Beijing, Belgrade, Istanbul and Dushanbe.

The singer’s repertoire also includes: Lord Arturo Talbo (I puritani), Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Alfredo Germont (La traviata) and Don Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro).
Has given a large number of solo concerts in Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Estonia and in cities, towns and villages across Russia.

Since 2023 he has been a guest soloist with Petersburg-Concert.
Concurrently, since March 2024, Yaramir Nizamutdinov has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre. He made his debut on its stage in May of the same year, performing the role of Bogdan Sobinin in the opera A Life for the Tsar: first in a chamber version, then in the full production.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Bogdan Sobinin (A Life for the Tsar)
Finn (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Vladimir Igorevich (Prince Igor)
A Young Sailor (Tristan und Isolde)