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Vladimir Baykov, bass-baritone

The young Russian bass Vladimir Baykov studied at the Moscow State Conservatory with Peter Skusnichenko and Svetlana Nesterenko and graduated in 2003. Additionally, he took part in Galina Vishnevskaya's opera singing centre in Moscow from 2002 to 2004. He has received numerous awards in national and international singing competitions, such as the All Russian Singing Competition Bella voce in Moscow (1st prize), The Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition in Helsinki (2nd prize), the Maria Callas International Singing Competition in Athens (3rd prize), the Belevdere International Hans Gabor Singing Competition in Vienna (finalist and diploma), the Queen Sonja International Music Competition in Oslo (3rd prize) and the International Singing Competition Neue Stimmen in Gütersloh (finalist). In 2004 he participated in the International Queen Elisabeth competition in Brussels, where he was awarded with a special prize. In spring 2004 Mr. Baykov received the distinguished Irina Arkhipova prize.

His first professional engagements were at the Moscow Opera Theatre, where he performed amongst others the roles of Alfonso, Gremin, Salieri in Mozart and Salieri by Rimsky-Korsakov, Mendoza in Betrothal in a Monastery and Kutuzov in War and Peace by Prokofiev as well as the three bass roles in Boris Godunov - Pimen, Varlaam, Rangon. From 1998 he worked with the Moscow Stanislavsky Theatre singing Don Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro, Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Lodovico in Otello, Sourin in The Queen of Spades and Bertrand in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta.
Following his success at the Mirjam Helin Competition in Helsinki, Baykov was invited to sing Colline at the Finnish National Opera under the baton of Maestro Alberto Hold-Garrido. The same role he sang with Stefan Soltesz at the Aalto Theatre Essen in 2003/04.

Recent engagements include Timur in Turandot at the Malmö Opera, Sweden, Alidoro in La Cenerentola and Oroveso in Norma in St. Gallen, Switzerland. He will also performe the role Altomaro in the rare heard Händel-opera Sosarme in Lisbon and at the Spoleto Festival in Italy. In 2005/06 he is looking forward to sing the title part of Boris Godunov at the Thêatre de la Monnaie, Brussels. He will also return to the Aalto Theatre in Essen for Colline in La Bohème.

A regular soloist of the Moscow State Philharmony since 2000, Vladimir Baykov frequently sings concert and oratorio repertoire such as Bach’s Magnificat, Cantatas BWV 82 and BWV 173, Haydn’s Schöpfung (Rafael, Adam), or the Requiem by Mozart.
 

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