Laureate of the second Turchak International Conducting Competition (Kiev)

Viktor Ploskina graduated from the Lysenko Lvov State Conservatoire in 1993. He worked for the National Honoured Academic Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine; now he cooperates with all leading Ukrainian symphony orchestras.

From 2000 to 2002 Ploskina was in charge of the National Serbian Opera in Novi Sad. In the 2002/2003 season Ploskina was the principal conductor and the artistic director of the symphony orchestra of Dnepropetrovsk Philharmonic, and in the 2004/2005 season he was the chief conductor of the Crimean State Philharmonic.

Ploskina joined the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus as the chief conductor in October 2007. He is the music director and conductor of a number of productions including Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky (the concert version), Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi, Cinderella by Sergey Prokofiev, Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi, Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, The Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, La Sylphide by Herman Severin Lovenskjold, Thamar by Mily Balakirev, Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He was the first to present the concert versions of Verdi’s Macbeth and Stravinsky’s Oedipus the King in Belarus.

Together with the symphony orchestra of the theatre he interpreted Berlioz’ Fantastic Symphony, Op. 14; Brahms’ Symphony No.2 in D major; Mahler’s Symphony No.3 in D minor; Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.5 in E minor and the Manfred Symphony, Op.58 in B minor;  Rachmaninov’s  Symphony No.2 in E minor, Symphony No. 3 in A minor and the Spring Cantata, Op. 20.

His repertoire includes Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Aida, La traviata, Nabucco and Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi, Carmen by Georges Bizet; La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Tosca and Turandot by Giacomo Puccini; Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, The Queen of Spades, Iolanta and Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, The Tsar's Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin, etc., a number of ballets, cantatas and oratorios and other works of the genre including Verdi’s Requiem, Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina.

As a member of the theatre company he has toured Germany (Monschau; Il Trovatore, Swan Lake, concert of symphonic music), Spain (La Palma; Verdi’s Requiem, concert of symphonic music), the Netherlands and Belgium (Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Breda, the Hague, Ghent; Il Trovatore).

Ploskina has conducted performances at the Estonian National Opera (Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème), Sofia National Opera (Puccini’s Tosca), and the Ukrainian National Opera (Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida); he has conducted the orchestras of Novosibirsk Philharmonic, Odessa National Philharmonic, and Azerbaijani National Philharmonic. He has also been a conductor of concerts at St. Peter’s Church in Vienna.