Since winning the first Aria and Oratorio Competition in Kiev 2004, 35-year-old bass Dmitri Ageew has been on his way to an international career. He had already won prizes at several other international competitions: in 1999 he was awarded the international award of the Vocal Competition of Ondinna Otto in Maribor Slovenia, and in 1997 Queen Sonya of Norway awarded him the international prize of her vocal competition in Oslo. His beautiful voice, excellent stage presence and impressive appearance garnered him awards at the All-Russian Competition of Opera Singers in Saint Petersburg in 2003 and at the International Vocal Competition of I. Alchevski, Ukraine in 2001.
 
His international career took off in January 2007, when he sang Colline in La Bohème with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Tel Aviv under Daniel Oren. He then performed Pimen in a new production of Boris Godunov at the Teatro Comunale Bologna under the baton of Maestro Daniele Gatti. At the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi Trieste he sang the Commendatore in a new production of Don Giovanni conducted by Tomas Netopil and staged by Daniele Abbado. Dmitri Ageew’s 2007/08 engagements include Re in Aida several other international competitions and concerts with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
 
Since 1996 Dmitri Ageew has been engaged as a soloist at the National Opera of the Ukraine in Kiev. His repertoire includes roles such as Gremin in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Napoleon Bonaparte in Prokofiev’s War and Peace and Galitzky in Borodin’s Prince Igor. He also sings Italian repertoire like Ferrando in Trovatore, Zaccaria in Nabucco, Monterone in Rigoletto, Baron Douphol in Traviata and Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor as well as French repertoire such as Capulet in Roméo et Juliette, Méphistophélès in Faust and Zuniga in Carmen. His concert repertoire includes requiems by Brahms, Fauré, Mozart and Verdi, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Symphony No. 9 as well as Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation and Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion.
 
Dmitri Ageew was born in Crimea Ukraine in 1971. He studied at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of the Ukraine in Kiev from 1991 to 1996. Upon graduating from the academy, he was immediately engaged as a soloist at the National Opera of the Ukraine in Kiev.
 
2007/08