Alexander Markeev’s répertoire includes bass roles in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Khovanshchina, and Fair at Sorochyntsi, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Iolanta, Oprichnik, and Cherevichki, Rachmaninoff’s Aleko and Miserly Knight, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Tsar’s Bride, and Servilia, Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, Prokofiev’s War and Peace, Shostakovich’s Katerina Izmailova and Orango, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, and Idomeneo, Beethoven’s Leonora, Rossini’s Il turco in Italia, Verdi’s Nabucco, Don Carlos, Simon Boccanegra, Otello, Aida, and Rigoletto, Wolf-Ferrari’s I quatro rusteghi, Weber’s Die drei Pintos, Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Il tabarro, Tosca, and La Bohème, Janáček’s Příhody lišky Bystroušky, Britten’s Little Sweep, as well as the bass solo in Verdi’s Requiem.
Boccanegra, Otello, Aida, and Rigoletto, Wolf-Ferrari’s I quatro rusteghi, Weber’s Die drei Pintos, Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Il tabarro, Tosca, and La Bohème, Janáček’s Příhody lišky Bystroušky, Britten’s Little Sweep, as well as the bass solo in Verdi’s Requiem.
The singer has cooperated with Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Valery Polyansky, Zoltán Peskó, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mark Sustro, Tugan Sokhiev, and other renowned conductors. He has appeared at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow Philharmonic Society, Béla Bartók Hall in Budapest, Moscow International House of Music, and Moscow Conservatoire among others.
In 2001, Alexander Markeev graduated from the Rostov State University and in 2005, he finished his postgraduate studies at the Russian Academy of Science as a geneticist.
In 2010, he finished the Vocal Department of the International Slavic Institute in Moscow.
In 2007–2010, he studied at the Galina Vishnevskaya Vocal Centre under Badri Maisuradze.
In 2010, he underwent traineeship in Sandefjord, Norway, under Mark Sustro and Johnathan Miller.
In 2010–2011, he was a soloist of the New Opera Theatre in Moscow.
In 2012, he appeared with the Russian Philharmonia Orchestra as a guest soloist.
Since 2012, he has been a guest soloist of the Polyansky Russian State Symphony Cappella.