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).

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Maria Soboleva

Sound engineer, professor, Head of Sound Engineers Guild

In 2001-2010 Maria was head of Sound Engineering Department at Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. Since then and now she is a head of Sound Engineering Department at Institute for Modern Culture.

Maria is the author of numerous scientific papers and academic programmes. She is also a regular holder of master-classes for Russian and foreign audiences.

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.

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

Sound engineer, lable Black Star

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 Rodovsky

Sound engineer. System engineer

Igor is always on the lookout for interesting projects for creative collaborations.

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.

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.

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.

Ian Staddon

VP sales at DiGiCo

Ian is one of the most famous professionals specializing in digital consoles.

Ian has been working for a long while for Harman Group, first at Soundcraft and then at Studer as a VP sales.

Beginning from 2011 Ian has been an international VP sales at DiGiCo.

Vladimir Filatov

Council member of Association “MIR-MIO”, co-founder of the company Universal Acoustics

Vladimir Filatov has studied music and electronics since childhood. In 1995 he graduated from Moscow University of Culture and Arts qualified as a choral conductor. In 1996 together with the engineer Sergey Markhay, Vinnytsya Polytechnic Institute graduate, founded a company producing professional acoustic systems. More than 20 years of effective co-operation of “music and physics” allowed them to achieve high results in the industry.

Nowadays apart from business activities Vladimir is involved into public work concerning development of professional audio equipment manufacturing in Russia.

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).

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.