Yury Monchak graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 2007. He participated in master classes held by Richard Barker, Paolo di Napoli, Badri Maisuradze, Elena Obraztsova, and Vladimir Atlantov.
In 2007, he joined the Mikhailovsky Opera. At the Theatre, he performed Gremin in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Skula in Borodin’s Prince Igor, Vasily Sobakin in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Tsar’s Bride, and Méphistophélès in Gounod’s Faust (productions by Stanislav Gaudasinsky). At the Theatre, he also took part in the Russian première of Britten’s Billy Budd (Mr Flint), staged by Willy Decker, and the St Petersburg première of Janáček’s Kát’a Kabanová, staged by Niels-Peter Rudolph (Dikoj). He performed Mikititch in the music and literature performance Boris the Tsar under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski. At the Theatre, he took part in the concert performances of Bizet’s Carmen (Zuniga) under the baton of Vasily Petrenko, Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (Don Bartolo) under the baton of Mikhail Tatarnikov, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snow Maiden (Father Frost) under the baton of Dmitri Jurowski, and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale) under the baton of Valentin Bogdanov.
Nowadays, at the Mikhailovsky Theatre Yury Monchak performs bass parts in the operas by Wolfgang Amadues Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.