An artist of the musicAeterna orchestra since 2012. Ivan Svatkovsky began learning to play the tuba in his native town Petrozavodsk. He has participated in competitions and international festivals in Norway and Sweden. While studying at the St. Petersburg Mussorgsky Music College, he became a laureate of All-Russian competitions. He graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory (the class of Associate Professor Valentin Avvakumov).

In 2007 he became a member of the St. Petersburg Musical Comedy Theatre orchestra. From 2008 to 2011 he worked as a tuba expert at the St. Petersburg Musical Wind Instruments Factory, visiting major music exhibitions in Europe. Since 2012 Ivan Svatkovsky has been an artist of the musicAeterna orchestra. He regularly gives master classes and invites the world’s leading tuba players to collaborate with the orchestra.