Maria Romanova
Russian/Italian Conductor
Qualification
- In music theory at the Gnesin State College of Music (2000)
- 2000 – 2006: Moscow State Tchaikovskiy Conservatory, Master Degree in composition, teachers:
professor Tchaikovskiy Alexander Vladimirovich (composition), Voronzov Yuriy Vasilievich
(composition), Buzkо Yuriy Markovich (Instrumentation), professor Shtegman Igor Pavlovich
(orchestra conducting). - 2010-2012: Classical Music Institute of Claudio Abbado (Scuola Civica), orchestra conducting,
teacher: professor Renato Rivolta. - 2016 – 2018: Moscow State Institute of Culture, Master Degree in orchestra conducting, teacher:
professor Tkachenko Yuriy Mihailovich, specialization in plectrum orchestra (honors degree). - 2018-2020 Moscow State Institute of Culture, Master Degree in orchestra conducting, teacher:
professor Tkachenko Yuriy Mihailovich, specialization in symphony orchestra and lyric opera
conducting (honors degree).
Thesis
- ” The development of the performing arts of the orchestra conducting at the University”
- “The improving of the performing skills of the students of the lyric opera and the symphony orchestra conducting”
Articles at the Scientific Journals
- “Humanity space”
- “The world of science, culture and education”
- ”Aeterna”
Awards
She was awarded by the University of the Free Time of Fasano (Italy) “with the deep gratitude and friendship.”
The Memberships
She is actually the member of the Russian Union of the musicians, the Center of the Contemporary
Music in Milan (Centro di musica contemporanea di Milano). She was the guest jury member of
many international music competitions in Italy, such as: ”Città di Fasano”, “Città di Crispiano”,
“Città di Ostuni”, “M. Ravel composers contest ”. She was the member of the jury of the
international competition of R. Glier in Moscow. From 2021 she is the member of the Uninion of
the composers of the Russian Federation. From 2021 she is the member of Artistic Council of the
“International Youth Philharmonic of the Future” (Moscow, Russia)
Collaborations with the Orchestras as a Conductor
- Orchestra of G. Verdi (Milan, Italy), 2010-2012
- “Streicher ensemble” from the orchestra “Berliner Symphoniker” (Berlin, Germany)
- 2013 – orchestra “I pomeriggi musicali” (Milan, Italy), 2011-2012
- Philharmonic Orchestra of City of Piacenza (Italy), 2010
- “Study of New Music” (Moscow, Russia), 2006
- Orchestra of the Conservatory of G. Verdi (Turin, Italy), 2007-2009
- Orchestra of Conservatory of N. Paganini (Genoa, Italy), 2016
- Lyric opera choir “Cycnus opera festival”, Genova, Italy, 2010-2011
- Lyric opera and symphohy orchestra studio of the Moscow Institute of the Culture, 2019.
- “Edle ensemble”, (Moscow, Russia), 2015-2018.
- Chamber string orchestra (artistic director) O. G. Svistunov (Moscow, 2021)
- From 2021 conductor of the “International Youth Philharmonic of the Future” (Moscow, Russia)
- Conducted an orchestra of 20 oboes and an orchestra of double basses (2022)
- Chief conductor of the opera “Norma” by Bellini at the “Opera Bellissima” theater, Moscow, (2023)
- Since September 2023 – assistant to the chief conductor of the Government Symphony Orchestra of Kostroma (Russia)
- Since January 2023 – chief conductor of the Moscow Youth Opera Theatre
- 2024 she collaborated with the Abruzzo Chamber Orchestra as part of the first international festival “I suoni itineranti” (Sulmona/Introdacqua, Abruzzo, Italia)
- In October 2024, the State Opera and Ballet Theater of the Komi Republic held a dress rehearsal of the opera “Cio-Cio-San” by G. Puccini (the conductor of the performance is the chief conductor and musical director of the Moscow State Academic Operetta Theater Konstantin Khvatynets)
- On October 18, 2024, the conducting premiere of Fikret Amirov’s ballet “A Thousand and One Nights” took place on the stage of the State Opera and Ballet Theater of the Komi Republic. The ballet soloists are prima ballerina of the Kremlin Ballet Theater Alina Kaicheva and soloist of the State Opera and Ballet Theater named after I.M. Yaushev Anastasia Rybkina.
- On December 13,2025, she conducted the premiere of Bellini’s opera Norma at the Moscow Youth Opera Theatre
- In August – September 2025, she conducted concerts with the Ancestral Chamber Music Orchestra, soloists – E. Zapolskikh and N. Fazzini (Sulmona and Introdacqua, Italy).
Conducting Competitions
- Winner of the R. Glier international competition, Moscow, 2018, I prize
- Winner of the international “Caspi Art” competition, Turkey, 2018, II prize.
- International “Avis” competition, I prize, Moscow, Russia, 2021.
- First place winner of the international competition “Consonance”, Switzerland, 2025.
- Laureate of the 3rd degree of the international youth competition dedicated to I.F. Stravinsky, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2025.
Collaboration with music agencies
2019-2021: Vida Art management (Switzerland)
Masterclasses
- 2010 – choral conducting masterclass with Maestro Alexandro Caesar Carillo (Caracas, Venezuela).
- 2007-2013: She studied the symphonic, opera and choral conducting at the Conservatory of G. Verdi of Turin, Conservatory of G. Verdi of Milan, the Institute of Classical Music of C. Abbado, European Conducting Academy of Berlin with R. Gessi and L. Shambadal.
- 2018 – Masterclass with Vasily Petrenko, Moscow
- 2018 – Masterclass with Simone Fermani, Moscow
- 2019 – “Cumbre mundial de directores de orchestra” with maestro Fransisco Navarro Lara, Huelva, Spain, 2019.
- From May 1 to May 8, 2021 she held the 1st Russian masterclass of lyric opera and symphony orchestra conducting for women in Shepsi.
Scholarships
She won the scholarship from the Ministry of the Culture of Rome for studying the composition in Genoa (2004).
Participation in Festivals
- “Youth composers of the World international festival” (Lviv, Ucraine) with chamber orchestra “Academy. 2011
- “Suoni itineranti international festival” (Sulmona/Introdacqua, Abruzzo, Italia) with chamber orchestra of Abruzzo and the singers of the Moscow Youth Opera Theatre, 2024
- In 2024, in the Kostroma Kremlin, she conducted a combined choir of 150 people (Academic Chamber Choir of the Kostroma Region Philharmonic; vocal ensemble “Lira”, Kondopoga, Republic of Karelia; chamber choir “Overture”, Moscow; chamber choir “Vozrozhdenie”, Zelenograd; chamber choir “Dusha”, Balashikha; chamber choir “Martakkord”, Moscow; Tsarskoye Selo Choir, city of Pushkin, St. Petersburg; choral ensemble “Vesenneye nastroenie”, Domodedovo; senior choir “Slovena” of the Stasov Children’s Art School, Moscow) and the chamber orchestra of Children’s Art School No. 4 of the city of Kostroma (artistic director – E. Ivanova) within the framework of the choral festival of the Russia Federation “In Glory of the Holy Trinity” (Kostroma).
Composition Competitions
She is winner of national and international competitions such as:
- “The Art’s Forum” (former USSR),
- ” The World of Pushkin”,
- “The International meetings of young musicians in Moscow”,
- “Orpheus. The mystery of the 21st Century”
- International competition of the composers for organ (the international organ festival of M. Tariverdiev),
- International competiton “The choral laboratory of the XXI Century” (St. Petersburg, 2012),
- International competition “Donne in musica”, (Serbia, 2015),
- International competition “Tactus forum” for young composers (Brussels / Mons, Belgium, 2015),
- Finalist of” Keuris Composers Contest” (2016, the Netherlands), “World Music Competition” (Perrenoud foundation), semifinalist, Vienna (Austria)
- La Vilavella, Castellon (Spain), 2019,
- Special prize of the international competition for composers and arrangers of I. Dunayevsky “Challenge of Time” for the creation of the collective opera “Journalist” (Moscow, 2021).
CD' s
- In the collaboration with Center of the Contemporary Music of Milan as the project “Archives of music of the XXI century” the CD’s was realised with the pieces “Bela” for orchestra and “The dream inspired by the flight of the bumblebee the second before awakening up” for violin and piano inspired by painting of S. Dali (2013/2015).
- In collaboration with the Arsonic (Mons, Belgium) the CD was realised with the composition “The Seasons. The Symphony of the singing Trees” (Les sons d’Arsonic 2015-2016).
Music Publishers
- Cooperation with the publishing house” Musician Classic”, 2016
- Book about the composer:” The Young Russian Composers”, 2010
Outstanding Premieres
Her orchestral work “Bela” was performed by united orchestras of Bolshoi and Maly
theaters in Moscow (2013).