Igor Bakanov was born in 1966 in Fergana (Uzbekistan).
In 1990 he won the All-Union Competition in Kharkov (First Prize). In 1994 he got the Second Prize at the «Nizhny-Novgorod Brass» International Competition. From 1996 he worked in the Russian National Orchestra.
Since 2004 he has been a member of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia.
