Principal Bassoon (Concertmaster) of the Nizhny Novgorod
State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of A.S. Pushkin
Born in 1983 in Stakhanov, Luhansk region, into a musical family. He began studying bassoon at the age of 13 at the Kharkiv Secondary Special Music School-Boarding School (class of Professor G. A. Abadzhyan). In 2007, he graduated from the Russian Academy of Music named after the Gnessins.
He is a laureate of the International D. Bida Competition (Lviv, 2000), the All-Ukrainian Competition of Woodwind Instrument Performers, and a scholarship holder of the V. T. Spivakov Foundation.
From 2000 to 2002, he was a soloist with the Youth Symphony Orchestra "Slobozhansky".
From 2002 to 2009, a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of Russia conducted by V. B. Dudarova.
Since 2010, a soloist with the B. A. Pokrovsky Chamber Musical Theatre.
Since 2017 he has served with the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pavel Kogan as a soloist and principal bassoon (concertmaster).
Since 2022, he has been Principal Bassoon (Concertmaster) of the Nizhny Novgorod State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of A.S. Pushkin
Laureate of the International D. Bida Competition Lviv, 2000
All-Ukrainian Competition of Woodwind Instrument Performers
Scholarship holder of the V. T. Spivakov Foundation
Soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Soloist of the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Bassoonist of the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Principal Bassoon (Concertmaster) of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia
Accompanist of the trombone group of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra of the Russian Federation
Soloist of the State President Kremlin Orchestra of the Russian Federation
Honored Artist of Russia, the creator of the trombone quartet of the Russian National Orchestra