Lev Pankratov

Lev Pankratov

Russian conductor, choirmaster, Honoured Artist of Russia (2008), composer, member of the Union of Composers of the Russian Federation, professor.

He graduated from the Gorky Boys’ Choir Chapel (1974) and the Glinka Gorky State Conservatory (1983; class of Professor, Honoured Art Worker of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Art History E. N. Garkunov).

In 1990 he completed a postgraduate internship at the Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory under People’s Artist of the Russian Federation L. K. Sivukhin.

L. G. Pankratov is the lifelong artistic director and chief conductor of the male chapel “Blagovest”, which he founded in 1991 and which is a Grand Prix winner of international and all-Russian choral competitions.\nHe is the author and artistic director of all-Russian and international choral festivals, including the All-Russian Festival of Choral Music in the Moscow Kremlin (2009);\nthe International Choral Festival at the State Historical Museum on Red Square (2011);\nthe all-Russian festivals of contemporary choral, theatrical and visual art “Harmony and Peace” (2013, 2015);\nand director of the annual International Choral Congress at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory.