Alexey SHATSKIY (Montenegro)

Alexey started his musical studies as a violinist at the age of seven and later on graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory of Tchaikovsky. Being one of the soloists of the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble he made several CD-recordings for OLYMPIA and HARMONIA MUNDI labels and also took part in many world premier performances or the compositions by Edison Denisov, Alfred Schnitke, Sofia Goubaidulina, Iannis Xenaquis, Teo Louvandi etc. at the Contemporary Music Festivals in France, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland.

In 1997 Alexey founded the Gran Canaria Chamber Orchestra (Spain). The very first years of the existence of the orchestra were marked with a series of concerts of popular classics and modern composers, a tour over the Canary Islands with educational program and a CD recorded for the Spanish label RALS. Under the baton of Alexey the Gran Canaria Chamber Orchestra was one of the first orchestras to perform in the famous Concert Hall named “Auditorio de Alfredo Krauss” in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

In 1997 and 1999 Alexey studied conducting with George Hurst, Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Robert Houlihan and Denise Ham at the Canford Summer School of Music (Great Britain). Later on in 1998 Alexey went to St.Petersburg to received private classes with famous Iliya Musin and finally in 1999 as an exception entered the Ph.D. course in conducting at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory of Rimsky-Korsakov as an assistant of Prof. Alexander Alexeev. In 2000 he recorded another CD for RALS label consisted of the pieces of nineteenth-century Spanish composer Bernardino Valle with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra.

In 2002 Alexey worked an assistant-conductor of the International Youth Orchestra “METRO-Philharmonic” organized by “Stenbeck Foundation for Fine Arts” (Sweden) and later on he became conductor of the Russian Radio-TV Symphony Orchestra. With this orchestra Alexey made a successful tour to Italy including three performances at the Milano’s Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music with Vladimir Ovchinnikov and Anastasia Chebotareva as the soloists. After that he started frequently as a guest conductor with the other Russian orchestras among them the “Russkaya Philharmonia”, the “New Russia” Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the Ulyanovsk Symphony Orchestra, "Musica Viva" chamber orchestra etc.

During the seasons 2004-2006 Alexey worked an assistant-conductor of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio and his Music Director and Chief Conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev. In March 2005 he made a successful début with the Orchestra on stage of the Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow International Performing Arts Centre with Tchaikovsky “Capriccio Italien”, Alexander Harutiunyan Trumpet Concerto (soloist – Sergei Nakariakov) and Stravinsky “The Rite of Spring”.

Starting from the season 2007-08 Alexey Shatskiy took the post as Musial Director and Chief Conductor of the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra. All cultural life of a new-born European country became related one way or another to that formation. The Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra performed all the way through the major Montenegrin cities, but also made its first abroad tour to Italy in May 2009. Under the baton of Alexey Shatkiy the Montenegrin Symphony performed the first national opera “Balkan empress” in Cetine, Podgorica as well as Saraevo. Most important soloists who came to Montenegro during the last two seasons such as: Vladimir Ovchinikov, Goran Krivokapich, Christophor Miroshnikov, Grigory Krasko, Boshtian Lipovshek, Ingomar Rainer appeared with the Orchestra.