Members of the jury and persons of the competition

Denis Bystrov

Vice-rector for Academic and Educational Work at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory.
Teacher of the oboe class at the Secondary Special Music School and the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College.


Dmitry Vorontsov

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
Russian French horn player, soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra.
Associate Professor at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory.
He is regularly invited to be a member of the jury of various prestigious music competitions.

Alexander Poeluyev

Russian accordion player, two-time world champion in accordion, composer.
Poeluyev became a two-time winner of the All-Russian Accordion and Accordion Players Competition.
The winner of the international accordion and accordion player competition “World Cup", held in Copenhagen.
Winner of the international competition in Detroit.
He received the first prize at the first international competition "Shanghai Spring" in Shanghai.

Omelchuk Tsvetana

A mezzo-soprano.
Soloist of the Mariinsky Opera Company.
Guest soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia.
In 2023, she was nominated for the Golden Spotlight, St. Petersburg's Highest Theater Award, for her role as Isabella in the Mariinsky production of The Italian Woman in Algeria.

Yakubovsky Dmitry

Head of the String Instruments Department at the St. Petersburg Mussorgsky College of Music.
Viola teacher at the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory.
Head of the soloist ensemble of the State Hermitage Museum.

Sergey Lukin

People's Artist of Russia.
Professor, soloist at the N. Osipov National Academy of Sciences of Russia, composer.
Organizer of a number of cultural and educational projects.
For many years, Sergey Lukin has represented Russian performing arts in many countries: Italy, France, Germany, England, Holland, USA, Japan, Korea.

Ovcharov Peter

Professor at Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).
Teacher of the piano class at the Secondary Special Music School and the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College.
He is a visiting professor at the International Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg and a visiting professor at the International Summer Academy of the University of the Arts in Vienna.

Gakkel Anton

Assistant to the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre.
He has repeatedly performed at the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid with the Orquesta Clasica Santa Cecilia, at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, with the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra and many others.

Maxim Karpets

Senior Researcher at the Russian Institute of Art History of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. As a composer, he works mainly in the field of theater and television music. He is the author of original music for dramatic productions on the stages of St. Petersburg, Samara, Novosibirsk, Krasnodar, Hamburg