Nikita Agafonov, clarinet

He graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (2008) and completed the Conservatory’s assistantship-internship in the “Contemporary Music Orchestra” programme
(2010).
A scholarship holder of the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation and the Russian Performing Arts Foundation, he is a prizewinner and diploma winner of international
competitions and festivals, including Concertino Praga, the International Clarinet Competition in Dos Hermanas (Spain), the International Competition-Festival of Young
Soloists in Moscow and the S. V. Rozanov International Clarinet Competition.
He has toured the USA, France, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and Germany. He has taken part in more than 20 international festivals, including the international
festival in Colmar (France) in 1998 and 1999, “The Russian Performing School of the 21st Century” (Moscow), the 37th “Russian Winter” arts festival, the Yuri Saulsky
jazz festival, the Golden Ferry international festival (Sochi), Mladá Praha (Czech Republic), “Young Talents of Russia” and others. In Germany he performed in the “Masters
of the Future” programme. He has made recordings on CDs released in Russia, the Netherlands and Japan.

Soloist of the Studio for New Music ensemble since 2007.