Russian tenor Vsevolod Grivnov studied at the Russian Chorus Academy and from 1986, at the Russian Music Academy, under Professor Byelov. In 1990, Mr Grivnov became a soloist of the New Opera company of Moscow's Municipal Theatre. During the following three seasons, he sang numerous roles, including Bayan (Ruslan and Ludmilla), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), and Leicester (Maria Stuarda). Vsevolod Grivnov is also a principal soloist with the Bolshoi. Recent performances with the company include the Fool in Boris Godunov, Vladimir in Prince Igor and Alfredo in La Traviata.

He has sung twice with the Toscanini Orchestra in Italy, under Maestro Barshai: Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in 1991, and Bach's B minor Mass in 1992. In 1992 he took part in the European Vocal Opera Centre Seminar in Ghent, singing Don José in a Peter Brook production of Carmen, and took part in the master classes of Maestro Edoardo Muller. He also performed Rossini's Stabat Mater.

In 1993, he was engaged to sing in a filmed version of Eugene Onegin and in the following year, sang the role of the Fool in Boris Godunov in Liège, Belgium. In October 1995, he sang Levko in Rimsky-Korsakov's opera May Night at the Wexford Festival. For these performances he was highly praised by the critics as being the outstanding new voice of the Festival.

Other past engagements include Dmitri in Boris Godunov, Pong in Turandot, Fernando in La Favorita, and Prince Guidon in The Golden Cockerel at the Nice Opera. He made his American debut as Dmitri in Boris Godunov at the Houston Grand Opera and later made his debut at the Royal Danish Opera as Fenton in Falstaff. In 1998/99 he returned to the Royal Danish Opera for Fenton and made his debut at the Bastille in a concert of Stravinsky's Le Rossignol and Le Renard and at the New Israeli Opera as Fenton. He also made his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in concerts of May Night, at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and returned to the Bastille for Chekalinsky in Pique Dame.

In 1999/00 he sung the title role in Oedipus Rex at the Teatro Weikl in Poland where the Polish newspaper “The Tribune” wrote that he sounded like the young Domingo, Eugene Onegin with the Chinese Symphony Orchestra, Petite Messe Solonelle with the Netherlands Chamber Choir, title role in Stravinsky Oedipus Rex at the Teatro Weikl in Poland and at the Granada Festival, Valencia, Bilbao and Barcelona, Shostakovich Jewish Folk Songs with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Temirkanov and with the S. Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Lensky in Eugene Onegin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

He has just sung The Innocent in Boris Godunov at the Bastille and at the Grand Theatre de Geneve and Macduff in Macbeth at the Deutsche Staatsoper.
Other engagements also include B minor Mass with the Orchestra of Teatro Massimo in Palermo conducted by Maestro Barshai, Oprichnik at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Zinovi in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the San Francisco Opera, Pulcinella with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Shostakovich Six Romances on Texts by Japanese Poets in Venice, The Miserly Knight at the Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon, Francesca da Rimini with the Orchestra Sao Paolo de Brazil. He has also sung The Bells with the Oslo Philarmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, the Verdi Requiem with the Bergen PO and Les noces with the RIAS Kammerchor in Berlin, Kuragin in War and Peace and Boris Godunov at the Bastille. He has just recorded Les Noces with Harmonia Mundi.

He has just sung Eugene Onegin, Vakula in Cherevichki at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan

His future engagements include Betrothal in a monastery at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Grigorii in Boris Godunov at the Monnaie, Brussels, The Bells with Vladimir Jurovsky at the BBC Proms, La Traviata at the Teatr Wielki, Warsaw, The Miserly knight at the Tenerife Opera, Mozart and Salieri with the Real Filharmonica de Galicia, the Verdi Requiem with the Gulbenkian Foundation, further concerts at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and with the Orchestra Verdi Milan conducted by Vladimir Jurovsky.