Born in Saint Petersburg, young Russian tenor Boris Stepanov graduated in conducting from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory and is currently studying in the Vocal Department with Prof. Irina Bogacheva.

He took part in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg, the “Opera World. Benjamin Britten” concert at the St Petersburg State Academic Capella, and performed the tenor part in Desyatnikov’s As an Old Organ Grinder with the Mariinsky Theatre St Petersburg, Ivan in Johann Mattheson’s Boris Godunov in Hamburg, with the Mikhailovsky Theatre St Petersburg and at Novaya Opera Moscow, and Young Gipsy in Aleko in concert at the Smolny Cathedral in St Petersburg.

Boris Stepanov has worked with renowned conductors such as Vassily Sinaisky, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Alexander Titov, Leo Krämer, Saulius Sondeckis, Nikolay Alexeyev, Valentin Nesterov, and Māris Sirmais.

On the concert stage he has sung Bach’s St John Passion, St Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio, Mass in B minor, Schütz’s The Resurrection, Handel’s Alexander’s Feast, Mozart’s Requiem, Coronation Mass, and Great Mass, Rossini’s Messa di Gloria, Schumann’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Paulus and Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Britten's The War Requiem, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem, Stravinsky’s Oedipus rex and Les noces, and Phronimos in Bortnyansky’s Alcide.

In 2015 Boris Stepanov has joined the ensemble of Mikhailovsky Theatre and was heard as Tchaplitsky in The Queen of Spades, Almeric in Iolanta, and Gaston in La traviata.

Recent and upcoming appearances include Beppo in Pagliacci, Prince Léopold in La juive, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, and Tsar Berendey in concert performances of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden - all with Mikhailovsky Theatre, as well as his debut at Grand Théâtre de Genève in concert performances of Carmina Burana and the re-invitation there for the role of Raymond in a concert version of Tchaikovsky's Orleanskaya Deva under the baton of Dmitri Jurowski.