All-Russian Congress of Sound Engineers of Music Programs


All-Russian Congress of Sound Engineers of Music Programs
About congress
The main focus of the event is

- Sharing real experiences between active sound engineers.
- Professional training of students specializing in sound engineering and upgrading skills of existing sound engineers.
- New professional audio equipment and the latest technologies to work with sound.
- Creating a platform for live communication between representatives of sound engineering community.
Target audience:
- Theatre and live sound engineers.
- Sound engineers working in recording studios, radio and television studios.
- Engineers and sound engineers of rental companies.
- Professors of musical colleges and higher music schools educating future sound engineers.
- Music students enrolled in the speciality "sound engineering".
- Heads of theatre sound departments and concert organizations.
- Personnel responsible for the technical equipment of concert halls, theatres and clubs.
- Sound engineers and sound technicians working at cultural and leisure services.
Speakers

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).
Programme
Congress timetable is under construction