Philipp Selivanov studied at the Glinka Chorus Academy. In 2010, he entered the Chorus Conducting Department of the St Petersburg State Conservatoire. In 2018, he graduated from the Opera and Symphony Conducting Department of the Conservatoire. He participated in master classes held by Vassily Sinaisky (2015), Bruno Weil (2015), Dorian Wilson (2016), and Vladimir Fedoseyev (2016).
In cooperation with the soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers and Grayer Khanedanian, he staged Zumsteeg’s Lenore at the Peterhof Palace and Khanedanian’s Saint Peter the Apostle at the St Petersburg Capella.
In September 2017, he made his debut at the Mikhailovsky Theatre with Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. In season 2017/2018, he conducted Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, and the ballet Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach.
He has performed with the orchestras of the St Petersburg Philharmonic Society, Kostroma Philharmonic Society, St Petersburg Capella, Astana Philharmonic Society, and with the Tavrichesky International Symphony Orchestra.