Collective

Inna Snigireva
Concertmaster of the second small domras group

She was born in the city of Kirovo-Chepetsk in the Kirov region, where she began her artistic career as a domra performer. She attended the Honored Worker of Culture of Russia T.A. Manylova's class at the Kirov School of Arts (now the College of Musical Arts named after I.I. Kazenin) after finishing his studies with E.G. Mansurova at the Children's Music School named after G.I. Babko. After graduating from college, she entered the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, studied under the guidance of Professor I.I. Shitenkov and Honored Artists of Russia A. G. Nikolaev and A.V.Makarov. Since 1991 she is an artist of the State Academic Russian Orchestra named after V.V.Andreev.

She began teaching at the M. P. Mussorgsky Music College in 1988 and has since trained a number of gifted students, artists, and instructors for prominent St. Petersburg organizations.

Constantly improves her performing skills, gets acquainted with the best examples of classical and modern music. Improving the quality of picks for all string instruments to bring out new colors and timbres when played on the domra was a particular focus of Inna Snigireva's imaginative explorations.