Boris Stepanov was born in 1986 in Leningrad. He graduated from the Glinka Choral School (Academic Chorus Conducting Department) in 2005 and from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 2010.

Boris has toured to Abkhazia, Belgium, Bulgary, Chile, Cyprus, Czechia, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and other countries. He has performed with many renowned conductors such as Nikolay Alexeyev, Vladimir Altschuler, Paolo Arrivabeni, Yury Bashmet, Vladimir Begletsov, Alexander Chernushenko, Teodor Currentzis, Justus Frantz, Valery Gergiev, Stanislav Gorkovenko, Hans Graf, Dmitry Khokhlov, Leo Krämer, Fabio Mastrangelo, Kent Nagano, Valentin Nesterov, Konstantin Orbelyan, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Alexander Rudin, Vassily Sinaisky, Dmitry Sinkovsky, Māris Sirmais, Tugan Sokhiev, Saulius Sondeckis, Sergey Stadler, Masaaki Suzuki, Mikhail Tatarnikov, Alexander Titov, Alexander Vedernikov, Kazuki Yamada, Dmitry Yurovsky, Vladimir Yurovsky, and others.

The singer has worked with such world-wide renowned orchestras as Bach Collegium Japan, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Svetlanov Russia’s Symphony Orchestra, musicAeterna orchestra and choir, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Soloists, and Moscow Chamber Choir (Minin-Choir).

In 2005-2015, Boris was a soloist of the Smolny Cathedral Chamber Choir.

In 2007, he performed Ivan in the Hamburg première of Mattheson’s Boris Godunov (the production was also staged in St Petersburg and in Moscow).

Since 2011, he performs as a guest soloist with the St Petersburg and Riga Philharmonic Societies.

In 2012, Boris became a laureate of the Three Centuries Of Classic Romance International Competition.

In 2015-2023, Boris Stepanov was a soloist with the Mikhailovsky Opera. Here he performed parts in the operas by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Halévy, Leoncavallo, Dvořák, Janáček, Donizetti, and Tchaikovsky.

In 2015, studied at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala.

In 2016, Boris became the first laureate of the Onegin National Opera Award.

Since 2017, Boris Stepanov is a guest soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. Here he performed Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Italian Singer in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier.

In 2018, Boris was awarded the first prize at the Georg Ots International Competition and a special prize at the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition.

In 2019, BIS Records released Kent Nagano’s recording of Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky with Gothenburg Symphony. Boris Stepanov performed the parts of Simpleton, Missail, and Boyar.

Since 2022, soloist at Mariinsky Theatre. Performs here Ernesto in Don Pasquale and Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore by Donizetti, Lindoro in L’italiana in Algeri and Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte and Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Mozart, Gérald in Delibes’ Lakmé, Lord Arturo Talbo in Bellini's I puritani, Iopas in Berlioz’s Les Troyens, A District Constable in The Nose by Shostakovich, Tsar Berendey in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden. Also performed the Evangelist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion and the tenor parts in Mass in B minor by Bach and in Desyatnikov’s ballet Wie der alte Leiermann...

In 2023, the Czech record company Supraphon released a CD with a recording of Stravinsky's Les Noces. Boris Stepanov performed the tenor part.

In 2024, Pentatone released a recording of Osip Kozlovsky's Requiem performed by Olga Peretyatko, Olesya Petrova, Boris Stepanov, Christoph Seidl, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

october 2024