Advanced Course in Choral Conducting 6/2027

Teacher

Sidoroff Mikko

Mikko Sidoroff (born 1985) is a Finnish choirmaster and composer living in Germany. From autumn 2018 until 2022, he worked as the choirmaster of the Landestheater Coburg, where he was responsible for the training and conducting of the full-time opera choir and an additional choir consisting of amateurs. From 2023, Mikko Sidoroff moved to the Chorakademie in Dortmund, Europe's largest choral institute, where he conducts two adult choirs: the mixed choir Collegium Musicum and the Women's Choir, which will be established in spring 2023. At the beginning of the same year, Sidoroff was appointed artistic director of the Symphonischer Chor Bamberg, which consists mainly of professional singers.

Before moving to Germany, Sidoroff has conducted numerous choirs in Finland, the longest of which were the Turku University Choir and the Wiipurilainen Osakuntan Laulaji. In 2003, Sidoroff founded the Krysostomos Chamber Choir, which performs new Orthodox church music, and he continues to serve as its artistic director. In the summer of 2016, Sidoroff worked as a guest conductor in the Europa Cantat Euro Choir project and also performed as the choir's conductor at the 2018 Europa Cantat festival in Tallinn.

Mikko Sidoroff has extensive experience as a composer and choral pedagogue. He has taught choral conducting at the University of Eastern Finland, Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Valamo Folk High School summer courses, and is currently at the Bundesakademie in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, and since March 2023 at the Technical University of Dortmund. He has written compositions for almost all of Finland's leading choirs and vocal ensembles. Sidoroff is published by the Finnish Singers and Musicians' Association, Sulasol ry.

Sidoroff graduated with a Master of Music degree from the Sibelius Academy in spring 2011, in the orchestral and choral conducting program, and continued his studies at the Mannheim University of Music. He has been taught by, among others, Matti Hyökki, Jani Sivén, and Harald Jers. In addition, Sidoroff has participated in master classes by, among others, Tatjana Hitrova, Kaspars Putniņš, Hans-Christoph Rademann, and Volker Hempfling.