Stanislav Kochanovsky was born
in St Petersburg in 1981. He studied at the Glinka
Choral School and later at the St Petersburg State
Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, graduating with distinction in three
fields – choral conducting (class of Professor Tatiana Khitrova,
2004), organ (class of Professor Nina Oksentyan, 2004) and opera and
symphony conducting (class of Professor Alexander Titov, 2008). After
graduating from the Conservatoire he was awarded a special
diploma as “Best Graduate of a St Petersburg Higher
Education Institution in 2004.”
Prize-winner
at the All-Russian Choral Conductors’ Competition in Salavat
(2002) and the I All-Russian Conductors’ Competition in Moscow
(2011).
In 2005, Stanislav Kochanovsky made his debut
with the St Petersburg State Conservatoire Orchestra, conducting
the opera Iolanta. From 2007-2010 he was a conductor
at the Mikhailovsky Theatre with which he toured
to the English National Opera (London) and the Teatro
la Fenice (Venice).
As a guest conductor, he has worked on productions
at the Mariinsky Theatre, the Novaya Opera Theatre (Moscow),
the St Petersburg Chamber Opera, the St Petersburg State
Theatre of Musical Comedy) and the Flemish Opera (Belgium).
The conductor’s repertoire includes over thirty operas
and ballets.
As a symphony conductor, Stanislav Kochanovsky works
with major Russian ensembles, among them the Svetlanov State
Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the National Philharmonic
Orchestra of Russia, the Moscow and St Petersburg Philharmonic
Orchestras, the St Petersburg State Academic Capella, the State
Hermitage Orchestra and the Volgograd Academic Symphony Orchestra. He
has also conducted the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra,
the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento (Italy),
the Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic Orchestra (Italy), the Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino Symphony Orchestra (Italy), the Frankfurt Radio
Symphony Orchestra (Germany), the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland),
the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra and the Tallinn Chamber
Orchestra (Estonia).
Since 2006 Stanislav Kochanovsky has collaborated
with the St Petersburg House of Music. In 2010 and
2012 he took part in Yuri Temirkanov’s Step Towards!
festival.
Since 2012 he has regularly helped prepare programmes
of symphony music for Vladimir Jurowski and
the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia
in Moscow.
Since the 2010–2011 season Stanislav Kochanovsky has been Principal
Conductor of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the State
Philharmonic in Mineralnye Vody, with which he made his debut
at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow and the Saydashev
Concert Hall in Kazan in 2011.