Dmitry Sukhin

Sound engineer; professor at Institute for Modern Culture

Winner of the National professional award in the sphere of show technologies Showtex Awards (nomination Sound Engineer - Live Concert, 2007) for his work at Nikolay Noskov's concert "Po poyas v nebe" (March 2006).

Dmitry Sukhin worked with

Andrey Ivanov

Live show and studio sound engineer

Andrey started his career in 1993 in a band Black Obelisk. He worked in a legendary Moscow studio SNC. Andrey recorded the following albums: "The Wall", "I Will Stay" (Black Obelisk), "Arms Collector" (Splean), "Goroda, gde posle dojdya dymitsa asfalt" (Garik Sukachov), "Good news", "First Snow" (Moralny Kodex).

Andrey worked at live shows with the bands: Garik Sukachov & Neprikasayemye, Moralny Kodex, TOKIO, Nogu Svelo!, Irina Krug, Mumiy Troll.

Nadezhda Rakhmanova

Sound engineer, university professor

Nadezhda graduated from Sound Engineering Department of Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatoire. She is the author of scientific paper on the supremacy of creative element above technical factors in sound recording. Nadezhda has a solid experience of making live sound for various shows: from rock concerts and musicals to symphony concerts and operas.

Today Nadezhda Rakhmanova is a sound engineer at Mariinsky Theatre, senior lecturer at St. Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences, member of the international association AES.

Bernd Neubauer (Germany)

beyerdynamic engineer

More than 20 years experience of working as a Live Sound Engineer with Depeche Mode, Phil Collins, Genesis, Bruce Springsteen, Eagles, Nickelback, Rhianna, Enrique Iglesias, Shakira and many many more.

A beyerdynamic engineer since 2000. Specializes on wireless systems, frequency coordination, wired microphones and headphones. Project engineer for several projects with a lot of wireless channels (theatres, universities, etc.)

Alexey Buravlyov

Specialist in digital audio equipment

Alexey is a member of MixArt Distribution since 2012. He works with professional audio equipment of the following brands: Allen & Heath, QSC, Audio-Technica and Denon.

Alexey identifies himself as a sound engineer-"theorist" in concert and studio sphere. He holds trainings on digital mixing consoles Allen & Heath of dLive, SQ and QU series.

Alexey is an active musician and leader of a musical project Sunwalter.

Phil Kamp

Head of Sales at KLANG:technologies, monitor sound engineer, keyboards player

After graduating in "Keyboards and Music Production" at Münster’s conservatory in 2008, Phil Kamp started working for several recording studios and live productions. Phil has been mainly touring as a monitor engineer e.g. with Henning Wehland, "Voice of Germany" winner Ivy Quainoo and persian pop star Ebi. As KLANG:technologies’ Head of Sales, he takes care of trainings and workshops. He also stays in regular and close contact with KLANG's world wide user base to support the ongoing development of the company’s immersive binaural audio solutions.

Liliya Gainutdinova

Product manager of L-Acoustics, AVID and SSL in the company “Sonoruss”, working sound engineer

There is no one in our profession who would not know Liliya Gainutdinova. She is a professional who has a big hands-on experience of fieldwork and knows the industry from inside. Now Liliya is developing three top brands: L-Acoustics, AVID and Solid State Logic. She also gives the training courses for sound engineers on working with mixing consoles SSL and AVID.

Vyacheslav Kasyanov

ARIS engineer

Vyacheslav Kasyanov has both musical and technical professional education. He used to work as a sound engineer at Academical song and dance ensemble; nowadays he is working with the following artists and bands: RockestraLive, Philipp Mityaev band, Artur Berkut. He is also a concert sound engineer at the radio station “Svoe Radio”. Recently Vyacheslav took part in album release of the band “Orkesrt KUSH” in the studio SineLab SoundMix.

As an engineer of the ARIS Company Vyacheslav specializes in DiGiCo products viz training and technical support. He took an educational course at DiGiCo Head Office in London.

Igor Novikov

Technical director of the Installation department (company “Sonoruss”)

Acoustic systems by L-Acoustics are renowned technical means for providing sound coverage in cultural, sport, recreational and business facilities. In early 2000s Igor Novikov and his partners were the first to bring L-Acoustics line array V-Dosc to Russia. For already 6 years Igor has been the head of the Installation department of the company Sonoruss, certified L-Acoustics representative in Russia. He implemented dozens of projects with L-Acoustics equipment in Russian theatres and concert halls. Igor Novikov can entirely cover the topic of the brand and show all L-Acoustics technologies in science terms.

Ivan Medvedenko

Sound Engineer. Drummer

Ivan has been playing the drums since school and believes there is still lots to learn. His sound engineering career started by chance (a real sound engineer of the band where Ivan was playing didn't come to the show and thus he had to do the live mixing himself).
Ivan is sure that music is only 30% of creative work and 70% of knowledge.

Dmitry Vdovin

Organizer of the Congress

Dmitry started his sound engineering practice within a musical band in 1987. His professional career continued in the studio SMS specializing in on-site orchestra recording. Later Dmitry got the job of the technical director of the Volga region No.1 rental company ALEF where he also doubled as a monitor sound engineer. As the latter he worked with Nazareth, White snake, Ken Hensley, Glenn Hughes, Soul Fly, Jean-Jacques Milteau and many other stars.

Nowadays Dmitry is a Bose Professional division employee and also a professor at the Sound Engineering Department of Samara State Institute of Culture.

Sergey Borzov

Owner of the rental company BBPro Team

Formerly Sergey worked as a SHURE product manager in Sonoruss Group and also product manager of Roland professional product line.

Mikhail Sokolik

Theatre sound engineer

Mikhail graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television in 2012. Since then he started working in theatre. Essentially he specializes in musical theatre.

In 2012-2014 Mikhail worked in Moscow Musical Theatre with shows «Rastratchiki» (Big spenders), «Vremena ne vybirayut» (You cannot choose the times), «Zhizn prekrasna» (Life is wonderful).

Since 2014 Mikhail Sokolik is part of the theatrical company StageEntertainment. There he worked on musicals "Phantom of the Opera", "Singin' In The Rain", "Cinderella", "Dance of the Vampires", "Ghost", "BatoutofHell" (Germany).

Besides Mikhail worked on musicals "Love Story" (Vladikavkaz, 2013), "O'Henry's Christmas" (Moscow Pushkin Theatre, 2014), concert performance of the "Phantom of the Opera" (State Kremlin Palace, Moscow, 2018), show-cases BroadwayDreamsFoundation (Moscow, 2016-2018).

Igor Gaydarov

Besides he provides a professional customer support as a technical solutions engineer of the brand.