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

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.

Olga Pashinina

Representative of Russian Musical Union

Coordinator of the International award for the best audio recordings of Russian academic music “PURE SOUND”. Senior lecturer at the Sound Engineering Department of Moscow State Institute of Culture teaching disciplines Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics. Ph.D. in History of Arts.

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.)

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.

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.

George Puttock

Product Manager for Software Support and Training in the company CODA Audio

George is an experienced systems engineer having spent ten years working in a rental company Adlib (Liverpool, UK). George is familiar with the use of nearly all major high-end professional loudspeaker systems on the market and brings with him a comprehensive understanding of audio applications, forged in the heat of countless tours.

For the last six years, George has undertaken extensive and varied duties on the road with artists including Ellie Goulding, Placebo, The Script and Enter Shikari as well as numerous classical symphonic concerts.

Evgeny Shuev

Head of the Department of Acoustics Calculations (ARIS), DiGiCo expert

Being a professional engineer with higher technical education and also a sophisticated guitarist Evgeny successfully combines his talents and experience as one of the leading engineers at the company ARIS.

Since 2015 Evgeny has been developing the focus area of acoustics calculations. He took special courses at Architon (Russia) and also at ADA and d&b audiotechnik (Germany) studying software EASE, Sound System Optimization and Line Array Theory.

Evgeny was directly involved in several serious projects by ARIS: Astrakhan Opera and Ballet Theatre, Sports Palace n.a. Ali Aliev, Church of St. George in Paralimni (Cyprus), Moscow State Duma and many others.

Besides, Evgeny is an expert specializing in DiGiCo mixing consoles. He has been working with the brand since 2010. Evgeny took two educational courses at DiGiCo Head Office in London and holds trainings on the SD-series throughout Russia himself.

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.

Boris Agapov

Brand manager of Studiomaster/Carlsbro and FONESTAR in the company Dealer Center

Boris graduated from Moscow State Art and Cultural University in 2000, Faculty of Conductors, Musical variety arts department. His speciality is conductor of a jazz orchestra, special instrument - electric guitar.

Boris is an actively performing musician.

Boris Agapov has a longstanding professional experience of working at various concert halls, studios and also in the sphere of Pro Audio equipment sales.

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.

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.

Roman Ivanovsky

Sound engineer. Owner of the recording studio "Apocrif studio" and rental company "Apocrif pro"

Roman studied sound engineering at Lenkom Theatre. He has been working in the specialty since 1992.

Roman Ivanovsky worked with

- famous Russian bands and artists: Alexey Rybnikov, theatre "Sedmoy Den", Valeriya, Neschastny Sluchai, Oleg Mityaev, Mark Freydkin, Andrey Baranov, Andrey Makarevich, Kvartal, Evgeny Margulis, Timur Vedernikov, Romario, Irina Surina, Aleksandr Shevchenko and many others.

- world stars: Ettien Mbappe, Hovard Levy, Richard Galliano and others.

- festivals: Mamakabo, Pro Dobro, Ural Music Night, Golden Stag in Brashov (Romania) and others.

Roman is a renowned expert in recording and making live sound of acoustic music and a permanent employee at Mercury Space Hall and Orion Hall.

Pavel Shemyakin

Brand manager of Audinate, Linea Research and K-Array in the company Hi-Tech Media

Pavel is a St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television graduate and has more than 8 years experience in distribution of professional sound products as a designer, product manager, brand manager in top Russian and international companies.

In Hi-Tech Media Pavel specializes in supporting state-of-the-art technological solutions and facilitates innovative audio technologies in professional environment of system integrators, design and rental companies, sound engineers. Since 2018 he is the brand manager of Audinate - developer of Dante protocol, the world's top Audio-over-IP solution.

Pavel Shemyakin is a certified specialist in brands Shure, Audinate, StageTec, AMX, BSS, HDBaseT.

Alexander Prykin

Head of Dealer Department in the company MD-Technology

Alexander graduated from Saratov musical college (instrument - flute), his speciality is bandleader, music teacher. He is an actively performing musician.

Alexander has an outstanding professional experience in the sphere of Pro Audio equipment sales.

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).

Alexander Lourie

Head of group of companies "Unvis-Pro"

Alexander graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute, faculty of radioelectronics in 1991. Then he worked at a defense plant for some time.

Since 1994 Alexander is in the sphere of professional sound. He is in favour of natural, "uncoloured" sound. Designing his acoustic systems Alexander pays much attention to minimizing frequency and phase distortions and highlights linear phase-frequency response of sound transmission.

Anna Buturlina

Representative of Russian Musical Union, Head of the International award for the best audio recordings of Russian academic music “PURE SOUND”

Anna is a Russian jazz singer and musical theater actress. She is a leading singer at the jazz orchestra n.a. Oleg Lundstrem. Anna is also a performing artist at Russian State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography directed by Sergey Skripka. Besides she post-synchronizes Disney animated cartoons and is a recording artist for motion pictures.

Valery Zelyanin

Sound engineer of Valery Leontiev

Valery Zelyanin graduated from Samara musical college (speciality - violin). His career as a sound engineer started during his army service in the Pacific Fleet Ensemble of song and dance. In mid 90-s Valery worked in sound-broadcasting. Later he worked with such artists as Georgy Garanian, Igor Sarukhanov, Sergey Penkin, Nadezhda Babkina, Inna Zhelannaya, Masha and the Bears band. Since April 2008 he is a permanent member of Valery Leontiev's band.

Ali Ahmaniemi

Lead developer of Wavetool

Before working for Wavetool, Ali has worked as an audio research engineer for Nokia Networks, Nokia Research Center and Berggram Development. Full stack developer with specialities in real-time audio.

In addition to working with software, has also a worked as a professional musician in number of theatres in Finland.

Ilya Lukashev

Recording and sound mixing engineer, concert sound engineer, co-founder of WaveForum

Ilya has a wide experience of dealing with music of different genres. For the last few years he has successfully cooperated with many outstanding artists as: Therr Maitz, Yolka, Manizha, Zventa Sventana, Polina Gagarina, Noize MC, Guru Groove Foundation, Mariya Tchaikovskaya. He also worked on several movie soundtracks. Apart from working actively with Therr Maitz Ilya also makes sound mixes for various other artists.

Ilya Lukashev enthusiastically encourages different educational initiatives in the musical sphere and gladly shares his knowledge and experience.

Yuriy Isakov

Yamaha Music Russia expert

Since 1989 Yuriy has been doing researches in psychoacoustics, acoustics and electroacoustics. That time he was a head of a laboratory specializing in physico-mathematical modelling of digital audio signal processing devices at a Research and Development Establishment. There he also became a chief designer of sound reinforcement systems. Yuriy is the author of several inventions in the sphere of professional sound. He also worked as a television, concert and Philharmonic society sound engineer.

Main areas of sound engineering: symphonic and academic music, jazz, musicals, shows.

Areas of research and design: room acoustics, electroacoustics (modelling), active sound field control systems.

Yuriy is a member of AES and a professor teaching audio technologies.