Арсений Шупляков

Born in 1982 in Leningrad. In 2005 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory. ON. Rimsky-Korsakov as a performer on percussion instruments (class of prof. S. Antoshkin). Since 2000 he has performed as a member of the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra. From 2013 to 2017 – timpani soloist.

Conductor of the Mariinsky Theater Stage Orchestra (since 2016). In addition, he acts as a conductor of a number of performances of the Mariinsky Theater: “Le Jeune Homme et la Mort”, “Les noces” (“The Wedding”), “Carmen Suite”. July 2018 – production conductor of the ballet “Pulcinella” (music by I. Stravinsky, choreography – Ilya Zhivoy). May 2017 – debuted as an opera conductor in the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater with the world premiere of the opera “The Speculator” by V. Kruglik.

Initiator of the Mariinsky Theater Concert Brass Orchestra (2017). Since 2015, he has been studying at the StPetersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory at the Faculty of Symphony Conducting (Professor V.Altshuler). In 2005 – co-founder of the percussion ensemble “Renaissance Percussion”, which gives at least 4 – 5 concerts annually on the stage of Mariinsky Concert Hall. In 2017, at the invitation of Ardani Artists, this ensemble participated in the ballet “Dreamers” (producer S. Danilyan), which premiered in the Mariinsky Theater and the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater.