Pavel Kolgatin graduated from the Moscow Boys Choir College and became a student of the State Academy of Choral Art, under the tuition of Professor Dmitry Vdovin. In 2009, whilst still a student, he was invited to join the Bolshoi Theatre's Youth Programme where he made debuts including Tamino in Die Zauberflöte and Simpleton in Boris Godunov. He was recently invited back for Elvino in La Sonnambula. In 2012, he made his debut at the Opera di Roma as Tamino in Zauberflöte and was invited back for L'elisir d'amore and La Cenerentola.
He has performed at many significant music festivals including the Moscow December Nights Festival, Festival de Colmar in France, the Rheingau Musikfest and Oldenburger Promenade in Germany and Spivakov's Festival in Moscow. Whilst performing at the Kissinger Sommer Internationales Musikfestival, he was named the Best Young Artist (2010).
Conductors he has worked with include Franz Welzer Möst, Vladimir Spivakov, Nikolay Nekrasov, Alexander Sladkovsky, Vasily Sinaisky, Christopher Moulds, Marco Armiliato, Christophe Rousset and Louis Langrée, amongst others.
Also established on the concert platform, Pavel has sung in a gala concert with Lucia Aliberti and the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Theodore Kuchar in Bad Wörishofen. He has also participated in a concert performance of Il Mondo dalla luna at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall under the baton of Alexandr Rudin and in five concerts devoted to art songs by Russian, French, German and Italian composers at the Chamber Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. Pavel has also appeared on TV in broadcasts including Stars von Morgen hosted by Rolando Villazón and sings at state and charity events. In 2014 he performed at the Claudio Abbado memorial concert.
Since 2012, he has been on a Fest contract at the Wiener Staatsoper, where his roles have included Ottavio in Don Giovanni, The Innocent in Boris Godunov, Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro, a young sailor in Tristan and Isolde, Borsa in Rigoletto, Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos, Ferdinand in Thomas Ades' The Tempest and in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He made his debut at the Salzburg Landestheater as Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore and returned for La Sonnambula.
He recently made his debut at the Salzburg Festival for Die Liebe der Danae and sung Il Conte d’Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Dresden Semperoper. Pavel continues his Fest with the Wiener Staatsoper this season and will sing Don Narciso Il Turco in Italia with the Polish National Opera.
He was winner of the International Competition 2006, Laureate of the Academy of Mozart in Aix-en-Provence, winner at the International Feodor Chaliapin Young Singers Competition (2010) and also the National Competitions in Ryazan and Moscow (2005). He was a prize winner at Neue Stimmen (2009) and was awarded first prize at the Hariclea Darclée International Voice competition held in Brăila, Romania in 2015.
photo: Pavel Molchanov
