Ivan Nikiforchin was born in 1995 in Moscow. He received his academic musical education at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and Postgraduate Studies at the Moscow Conservatory under the guidance of Professors Valery Polyansky (opera and symphony conducting) and Yuri Abdokov (composition, orchestration, history of orchestral styles). Participant of master classes by Yuri Temirkanov, Vasily Petrenko and others.

Founder, artistic director and chief conductor of the Academy of Russian Music, which unites a chamber orchestra and a choir. According to domestic and foreign critics, ARM is one of the most outstanding chamber orchestra and choral groups in modern Russia. The main concert venues of ARM are the Bolshoi, Maly, Rachmaninoff Halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Moscow International House of Music, etc.

The repertoire of the conductor, orchestra and choir includes works from a wide historical and stylistic spectrum: from K. Monteverdi, G. Schutz, J.S. Bach, G.I. von Bieber, G. Purcell, W. Mozart, E. Megul, L. Beethoven to E. Elgar, G. Mahler, A. Schoenberg, G. Holst, B. Britten, O. Messiaen and others . Under the direction of Ivan Nikiforchin, the Academy of Russian Music has performed Russian premieres of orchestral scores by O. Respighi, P. Hindemith, V. Lutoslavsky, J. Finzi and others. The central place in the repertoire of "ARM" is occupied by orchestral works by leading Russian composers of the XX-XXI centuries: Nikolai Myaskovsky, Dmitry Shostakovich, Boris Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Peiko, German Galynin, Moses Weinberg, Revol Bunin, Gabriel Popov, Galina Ustvolskaya, Yuri Abdokov, as well as almost all chamber and orchestral transcriptions by Rudolf Barshay.

Nikiforchin actively cooperates with the International Creative Workshop of Yuri Abdokov "Terra Musica" (Russia – Germany – Italy) and "The Boris Tchaikovsky Society", under the auspices of which he carried out a number of high-profile projects: the first world recordings of all chamber-orchestral scores and string-bow ensembles by G. Galynin and the first recording of the complete collection of choral works by A.K. Lyadova (both discs are for the British company Toccata-Classics. London»). He performed the world premiere of the Suite for Symphony Orchestra Op. 26 by Moses Weinberg. For the first time after the concerts of R. Barshay in the 60-70s of the last century, he performed many chamber and orchestral scores by N. Peiko, R. Bunin, M. Weinberg, A. Lokshin, A. Volkonsky, etc. He directs the orchestra subscription of the Moscow International House of Music "The Great Pages of Russian Music of the twentieth Century".
Until 2024, he is the conductor of the State Academic Symphony Chapel of Russia. Since 2022, he has been teaching opera and symphony conducting at the MGASO.

He performs with leading orchestral ensembles of the country, including the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra, the Bolshoi Theater Symphony Orchestra, the State Chamber Orchestra "Virtuosi of Moscow", the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestra "New Russia", GASO of Tatarstan, etc. Ivan Nikiforchin is a guest conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. Conductor of the ballet "The Nutcracker" by P.I. Tchaikovsky at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Art Theater (2022).