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).