My CV

Personal information:

Name

Ilya Dontsov

Date of birth

February the 12th, 1981

Major

Producer, Audio engineer

Degree

Masters (equivalent)

Institution

Russian Academy of music named after Gnessins

Job positions, studios:

Date

Place of work

Position

2002 – 2003

"Idee Fixe" studio

Producer, Audio engineer, Technical specialist

2003 – 2004

Studio of the Russian Academy of music

Producer, Audio engineer, Technical specialist

2004 – 2005

Moscow Concert Center of Pavel Slobodkin

Head of the Audio Recording department

June 2005

Location recording of the "Moralny Kodeks" band gig

Assistant, Technical specialist

December 2005

Saratov State Conservatory

Location recording of works by Boris Tchaikovsky, Saratov State Conservatory

2003 – 2006

"Millennium" studio

Producer, Audio engineer, Technical specialist

December 2006

Location recording of Pavel Slobodkin symphony orchestra, various pieces with soloing violin and cello, The Hall of Gnessins Music College

Recording and mixing engineer

2006 – 2007

“Millennium” studio

Chief audio engineer/producer, Manager, Technical specialist

May 2007 – January 2008

Freelancer

January 2008 – until now

"Capitel" studio

Technical director, Audio engineer

Spring 2009

Mosfilm

Recording of symphonic works by Boris Tchaikovsky

Some bands I worked with:

Name

What I did

Zhuki (pop-rock)

Tracking, Mixing

Videli!Znaem (rock)

Tracking

Melnitsa (folk-rock)

Tracking

Unreal (gothic-electro)

Tracking, Mixing, Mastering

Lina Milovich (pop-rock)

Tracking, Mixing

Priklucheniya Elektronikov (rock)

Tracking, Mixing

0.5 (nu-metal)

Tracking, Mixing

Taktika (pop-rock)

Tracking, Mixing

Mukha (rock)

Tracking, Mixing

Indi (pop)

Mixing

Prologue (trip-hop)

Tracking, Mixing, Mastering

Korsika (power-metal)

Tracking, Mixing, Mastering

Diana Shik (pop)

Tracking, Mixing, Mastering

Eternal Wanderers (art-rock)

Mixing, Mastering

Ugo (pop-rock)

Tracking, Mixing, Mastering

KVINT (pop-rock)

Tracking, Mixing, Mastering

Job positions, live sound:

Date

Place of work

Position

2003 – 2004

"Dom" club

FOH-engineer

2003 – 2005

Musical "Byuro schast'ya"

FOH-engineer

May 2003

"Bohema Jazz" Festival, "Russia" State Concert Hall

Assistant

September 2004

Concert dedicated to the Day of Moscow City, Central Park named after Gor'kij

FOH-engineer

October 2004

Concert of Cesaria Evora, Kremlin

Assistant

October 2005

2nd Russian-Norway Jazz Festival, Moscow International House of Music

Assistant

July 2010

Piknik "Afishi" Festival, Moscow, Kolomenskoe

FOH-engineer

August 2010

Arctic Riders Festival, Murmansk

FOH-engineer

Post-Production:

Winter - Spring 2009

Musical TV show "Dve Zvezdy" (ORT)

Spring - Fall 2009

Musical TV show "Dostoyaniye Respubliki" (ORT)

Fall 2009

Musical TV show "Najdi Tchudovische" (TVC)

2010 - 2011

Musical TV show "Music Ring" (NTV)

2010 - 2011

TV show "Yesterday Live" (ORT)

Other activities:

Spring 2005

First Prize at the Recordings Competition in Barcelona (Jazz/Folk nomination, you can listen to my recording HERE)

Fall 2005

Audio assistanship workstudy programm at the Banff Centre, Canada

Spring 2006

Honorable mention at the Recording Competition in Paris – (Classical recording nomination, you can listen to my recording HERE)

February 2006

“Analog and Digital Recording Workshop” held by Gerhard Woelfe at MosFilm studios

October 2006

“Mastering Workshop” held by Mazen Murad at MosFilm studios

July 2007

“Advanced Music Production Workshop” held by Tony Platt at MosFilm studios

Additional information:

Knowledge of foreign languages

Spoken and technical english

Computer skills

Advanced user, programmer, hardware specialist.