Artem Makarov

Artem Makarov began his professional education at the Secondary Special Music School at the Zagir Ismagilov Ufa State Institute of Arts. 

In 2000, he graduated in piano from the Zagir Ismagilov Ufa State Institute of Arts with distinction (class of the Honoured Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Professor Alekseeva).

In 2003, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Zagir Ismagilov Ufa State Institute of Arts in opera and symphonic conducting (class of the People's Artist of the Republic of Belarus Valery Platonov and Honoured Art Worker of the Russian Federation, Professor Alexey Lyudmilin). In 2015, he did the two-year apprenticeship programme at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (class of People's Artist of the USSR, Professor Gennady Rozhdestvensky). 

In 1997, while being a student, the young musician began working at the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre as an opera company accompanist. In 2002, he was appointed to the position of conductor. The maestro participated in all new productions of the theatre, including Aida, La traviata and Il trovatore by Verdi, Giselle by Adam, etc.

From 2003 to 2010, the conductor combined work at the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre and Ankara State Opera (Turkey), where he conducted repertoire performances and participated in staging of Macbeth and La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti, Così fan tutte and Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, etc. At the same time, he worked as a guest conductor of the Istanbul State Opera and collaborated with the leading symphony orchestras of Turkey: Çukurova Symphony (Adana), Belediye Symphony (Eskişehir), Belediye Symphony (Bursa). At the same time, the maestro worked at the Anadolu University (Eskişehir, Turkey), where he taught opera singing at the Vocal Arts Department for several years.

From 2010 to 2023, Artem Makarov was the principal conductor of the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre. On the Ufa stage he conducted Tosca, Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, Carmen by Georges Bizet, Aida, Il trovatore, Rigoletto, La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin, Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo, Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Memento by Salavat Nizametdinov and others.

For the first time in Ufa, he staged operas Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hercules by George Frideric Handel (directed by Georgiy Isaakian), Carmen by Georges Bizet (directed by Dmitry Belyanushkin), Salavat Yulaev by Zagir Ismagilov (directed by Irkin Gabitov), operettas Die lustige Witwe by Franz Lehár, Un mari à la porte by Jacques Offenbach (directed by Vladimir Podgorodinsky). He conducted numerous concerts at the theatre. In 2012, he conducted the world premiere of the opera The Geometry of Life by Bashkir composer Salavat Nizametdinov. In February 2013, Mozart’s Requiem was performed under the direction of Artem Makarov on the stage of the theatre for the first time. 

He has conducted at international musical performance competitions: 

Zagir Ismagilov International Musical Performance Competition (2011)

Nariman Sabitov International Musical Performance Competition (2012) 

From 2013 to 2015, Artem Makarov combined his activities in the theatre with his work as the musical director of the Antalya State Opera (Turkey). At the Antalya Opera House he conducted Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Macbeth, La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi; Tosca by Giacomo Puccini. In March 2014, he staged Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (directed by Yekta Kara) at the Antalya Theatre. In September 2014, Artem Makarov, at the invitation of the Antalya State Opera, took part in the 21st Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival in Turkey.

In 2016, together with the general director of the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre Ilmar Almukhametov, he co-organized of the 1st Feodor Chaliapin International Singing Competition (Ufa). 

In 2017, Artem Makarov was awarded the Golden Mask National Theatre Award.

In 2019 and 2020, he joined the jury of the Award, as well as the expert council of the Onegin National Opera Award.

In 2021, Artem Makarov was awarded Musical Heart of the Theatre Award in the nomination "Best Conductor" for staging of Jacques Offenbach's La Grande-duchesse de Gérolstein.

Since 2023, he is the principal conductor of the Natalia Sats Moscow State Opera and Ballet Theatre for Young Audience.

Since 2023, he is the principal conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus.