Igor Gorban graduated from Krasnodar Rimsky-Korsakov Music College (the class of Honoured Artist of Kuban Ivan Shulzhevsky, 2016) and the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (the workshop of Honoured Artist of Russia Georgy Isaakyan, the class of Professor Nikolai Vasiliev, 2021).

He is the laureate of All-Russian and international competitions. He is a nominee of the Onegin National Opera Award (2022), a nominee of the Kuban Theatre Festival Award in the category Best Debut (2023) for the role of the Fool in Boris Godunov by the Krasnodar L. Gatov Creative Association ‘Premiere’. He is also a nominee of the Triumph Award of the Public Chamber of the Krasnodar Territory (2024).
From 2022 to 2024, he worked as a soloist at the Krasnodar Musical Theatre. He toured the cities of Italy, the Ukraine, and Armenia.