Double Basses

Ivan Ivanchik

In the orchestra since 2023

Ivan Ivanchik began studying the violin at the music school in Tukums (Latvia). He graduated from the Kostroma Music College, and has been studying at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the double bass class of Professor Nikolai Gorbunov and in the optional composition class of Professor Yuri Vorontsov.

In 2020, he won the First Prize at the All-Russian Olympiad of students of music colleges of the Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory. In 2024, he won the Second Prize of the International Competition-Festival ‘Colours of Music’ (Moscow).

In 2020, he collaborated with the Ad Parnassum chamber orchestra conducted by Valery Popov. Since 2022, he has worked in the Concert Symphony Orchestra and the Opera Studio of the Moscow Conservatory under the direction of Anatoly Levin.

Since the same year, he has been performing as a guest artist with the Prometheus Chamber Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Kalitsky and the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2023 he became an intern of the musicAeterna Orchestra.

He has been composing music since 2020. He has composed 3 symphonies and several other orchestral works, music for the play ‘Six Reasons’, the ballet ‘The Black Knight’ (unfinished), chamber music, and works for electronics. His suite for string orchestra ‘Ballad’, ‘Silentium’ for string orchestra, and the Second Part of the Trio for double bass, viola and piano were performed at concerts. He took part in the All-Russian Competition for Young Composers ‘Score’ (2021) and the Myaskovsky International Competition for Young Composers (2023).