After graduating from the Prokofiev Moscow Regional musical college (2002) and Russian Academy of Theater Arts (2006, Musical Drama department, class of Professor Dmitry Bertman), Dmitry Khromov advanced his skills attending master classes of Elena Obraztsova. 

The singer has won a diploma of the Moscow Regional sacred music festival dedicated to 2000 years of Christianity, and a prize at the 3rd All-Russian Varlamov Singing Competition in Tver. In 2012, as a special award from the Canadian festival Young Ambassadors of Music, Dmitry Khromov was granted the opportunity to appear with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Kent Nagano.

Dmitry Khromov become a trainee with the Moscow Helikon Opera in 2003 and the company’s soloist in 2006. His extensive repertoire boasts over 30 part including Lensky and Andrey (Eugene Onegin and Mazepa by Tchaikovsky), Lykov, Yelisey Bomeliy and Mozart (The Tsar's Bride and Mozart and Salieri by Rimsky-Korsakov), Don Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart), Alfred and Richard (La Traviata and Un ballo in maschera by Verdi), The Prince (The Mermaid by Dvořák), Claudio (Das Liebesverbot by Wagner), Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites by Poulenc), Sergey (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Shostakovich), Alwa (Lulu by Berg), Platon Zubov (Tsarina by Tukhmanov), Prince Felix Yusupov (Rasputin by Jay Reise), Minister Pong (Turandot by Puccini) and others. 

The singer has collaborated with Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Ponkin, Evgeny Brazhnik, Vladimir Fedoseev, Konstantin Chudovsky and other outstanding conductors. Touring both Russia and abroad with the Helikon Opera company, he has taken part in a concert performance of Norma by Bellini with the company’s orchestra and choir at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. 

In 2011, he made his debut at the Bolshoy Theater as Tsarevich Gvidon (The Golden Cockerel by Rimsky-Korsakov staged by Kirill Serebrennikov). He has also appeared at Na Basseinoy Theater (Kaliningrad), was involved in the Open Stage youth programme of the Moscow’s Department of Culture (operas by Purcell and Cherubini), as well as in numerous art festivals, including the Festival for the 100th anniversary of Olivier Messiaen’s birth (2008), and Peter Dvorský International Music Festival in Slovakia (2011).

Dmitry Stepanovich was born in 1974 in Moscow. He graduated from the Gnessin School of Music as a musicologist in 1993. In 1998 he graduated with distinction from the Vocal Department of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (class of Pyotr Gluboky). 

From 1996 to 2016, Stepanovich was a soloist with the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre. In 1998, he received the 1st prize of the 2nd International Rachmaninov Competition. He has been nominated three times for the Golden Mask Award in the Best Male Opera Part category for his appearances as Arkel (Debussy's Pelléas and Melisande, 2008), Scribe (Rimsky-Korsakov's May Night, 2009) and as four villains: Lindorf, Coppelius, Dapertutto and Dr. Miracle (Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, 2012) in respective productions at the Moscow Academic Music Theatre.

The singer's repertoire also includes Ruslan and Farlaf (Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila), Saltan (Rimsky-Korsakov's Tale of Tsar Saltan), Ibn-Haqia (Tchaikovsky's Iolanta), the Commander (Mozart's Don Giovanni), Dulcamara and Raymondo (Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and Lucia di Lammermoor), Montano (Verdi's Otello), Schonard, Angelotti, Bonzo (Puccini's La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly), Don Pizarro (Beethoven's Fidelio), Mephistopheles (Gounod's Faust), Frank (Strauss's Die Fledermaus), Demon (Rubinstein's Demon), Don Basilio, Mustapha (Rossini's The Barber of Seville and L'italiana in Algeri), the Judge (Massenet's Werther), Mendoza, Bolkonsky (Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery and War and Peace) and many other roles. 

Dmitry also has an extensive concert repertoire. He has performed the bass parts in Requiems by Mozart and Verdi, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion and Magnificat, Handel's Messiah, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, Grechaninov's Missa Oecumenica and Liturgia S. Ioannis Crysostomi, domestika, as well as numerous cantatas and oratorios. 

He participated in Russia’s first performance of Rossini's Mosè in Egitto (title part), and Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di anima, et di corpo (Corpo). He is also the first performer of the part of Jesus Christ in the Russian Passion oratorio by Alexei Larin. 

Dmitry Stepanovich has appeared with orchestras and choirs under Vladimir Ponkin, Valery Polyansky, Yuri Bashmet, Gennady Dmitriak, Galina Koltsova and Igor Golovschin. He has composed works in various genres including eight sonatas for bass and piano and several vocal cycles. He has released several CDs of vocal and piano music, notably The Boxwood Arrow (2006), an album for which he composed music and lyrics, but also recorded both the vocal and the piano part. 

In 2010 he founded and headed the ensemble of soloists Voci di ricci at the Lomonosov Moscow State University’s Early Music Theatre. Under his guidance, the ensemble became a prize-winner at the Starfall of Talents competition in Russia and at the Chorus Inside International Festival in Italy (2013).

The Moscow Baroque Soloists, founded by cellist Andrey Spiridonov in 1997, is an ensemble of historically informed performance of Baroque and Classicism music. For many years, the musicians have been doing research in libraries and archives, collecting musical works by Austrian, Italian, German, French, and Russian composers to offer a new insight into historical and cultural processes in Europe between the 17th and the early 19th century. 

The ensemble appears at the Moscow Conservatory, the Chamber Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic, Gonzago Theater in Arkhangelskoye, Evangelical Lutheran Peter and Paul Cathedral, Russian State Library, Pokrovskye Vorota cultural centre, Engineering Building of the Tretyakov Gallery, Ilya Glazunov Gallery and other popular venues.

Since 1999, the ensemble has regularly participated in the summer editions of Sheremetyevo Seasons at the Ostankino estate, giving authentic performances of Le devin du village by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Livietta e Tracollo by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi among other pieces. The company was also involved in the premiere of Miserere by Giuseppe Sarti at the Sheremetev Theater in Ostankino and at the Tsaritsyno Opera House broadcast by the Kultura TV channel, as well as in the staged production of Temple of Minerva oratorio by Francis Hopkinson staged in the Armory Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin. Moreover, the ensemble members have found and premiered works of Luigi Madonis, Domenico dall’Oglio, Anton Eberl, Katerina Maier-Schiatti, Jean-Baptiste Cardon, Lev Gurilyov, Danila Kashin, Alexander Alyabyev, and other composers. 

In their programmes, the musicians combine various genres of art while focusing on the composers’ personalities in historical and cultural context of their times. The ensemble’s major programs include “Musical Atlas of Orpheus”, “Russian Musical Archive”, “He Captured Paris, He Founded the Lyceum”, “Ausonian Games”, “Gallery of Musical Rarities”, “Unfinished Journey, or the Northern Odyssey of Kapellmeister Sarti”, “The Secrets of the Bologna Academy”, “Russian Mozarteum”, “Music of the Lefortovo Sloboda”, “Odoevsky, or Russian Faust”, “Joseph and His Brothers: The St. Petersburg Portrait of Haydn”, to mention but a few. The company has also recorded programmes “The Northern Parnassus”, “Sebastianon, or To the origins of the Russian myth of Bach”, “1812. Heroes and Contemporaries”, “The Musical Chronicle of the Russian Court”, “The Origins of Russian Romanticism” and “Vivaldi. Russian Trace”. 

The Moscow Baroque Soloists have toured throughout Russia, as well as in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Canada, and the USA. In 2004, they appeared in the production of The Falcon by Bortnyansky in Helsinki. 

The founder and artistic director of the ensemble Andrey Spiridonov graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1981 majoring in cello (with Ivan Monighetti and Natalia Shakhovskaya) and composition (with Tikhon Khrennikov). At various times he was a soloist of different early music ensembles, such as Baroque, Academy of Early Music, Orfarion, Lad, etc. Presently, Andrey Spiridonov is a Professor heading String, Wind and Percussion Instruments Department of the Faculty of Historical and Contemporary Performing Arts of the Moscow Conservatory.