Honoured Artist of Russia
Principal Conductor of the Studio for New Music ensemble

Born in Moscow. In 1992 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in choral conducting (class of Prof. B. Tevlin) and in opera and symphony conducting (class of Prof. D. Kitaenko), and in 1994 completed his postgraduate studies with Prof. D. Kitaenko. He took part in master classes given by Sir Georg Solti and Pierre Boulez.

Since 1991 he has been a conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre, where his repertoire has included Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Gounod’s Faust, Verdi’s Il trovatore and La traviata, Rachmaninoff’s Aleko and The Miserly Knight, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Leonid Desyatnikov’s The Children of Rosenthal. In 2004 he was musical director of a production of an evening of one-act ballets (Ward No. 6 to music by A. Pärt, Magrittomania by Y. Krasavin and Lea to music by L. Bernstein); in 2005, musical director of John Neumeier’s ballet A Midsummer Night’s Dream to music by F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, G. Ligeti and traditional mechanical music (Golden Mask award for best ballet production); in 2006, musical director of the ballets Serenade by G. Balanchine to music by P. Tchaikovsky and Misericordes by C. Wheeldon to A. Pärt’s Symphony No. 3 (world premiere); and in 2007, musical director of the ballet The Lesson by F. Flindt to music by G. Delerue. He also performs concert programmes with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra.

He is a guest conductor of many renowned ensembles and orchestras, among them the Russian National Orchestra, Ensemble Modern (Germany) and others.

Since 1992 he has taught in the Department of Opera and Symphony Conducting at the Moscow Conservatory (professor since 2002). He is Principal Conductor of the Studio for New Music soloists ensemble, with which he has given more than 500 Russian and world premieres of works by 20th-century composers. Since the founding of the Moscow Forum contemporary music festival, I. Dronov has been its principal conductor. Since 1994 he has been Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Premiera youth soloists ensemble.

He has recorded a series of CDs of contemporary Russian and international music, and tours in Europe, the USA and Japan.