In 1987 he graduated with distinction from the Piano Faculty of the Gnesin State Music and Pedagogical Institute in the class of Prof. Ye. Ya. Liberman, and in 1990 he completed postgraduate studies in the Department of Contemporary Musical Issues.
In 1989 he designed and introduced a course in music informatics at the Music College named after the October Revolution (now the Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music College).
From 1992 to 2006 he taught piano at the Music School and the Academic Music College of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory. Since 2006 he has been Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Music at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.
Since 1997 his students have won forty‑six First Prizes at competitions in Russia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Ireland, and Hungary, together with numerous special awards (for example, best performance of a given composer, best pianist of Eastern Europe, and others).
As a teacher he has received many diplomas as best teacher at international competitions, and his students perform widely in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
He has issued seven CDs featuring his students in the series «The Teacher and His Pupils». He has served on the international jury of the «Città di Barletta» competition (Italy) in 2002, 2004, and 2014, and has repeatedly given masterclasses in Russia and abroad.
In 2002 he founded the Europa–Asia International Piano Competition in Orsk (Orenburg Region) and continues to serve as its President and jury member; the eighth edition took place in June 2016.
As part of the cultural programmes of these competitions he regularly gives masterclasses, and has been repeatedly awarded honorary certificates by the Mayor’s Office of Orsk.
In 2009 he took part in preparing the Second International Harp Competition named after Vera Dulova, where he was responsible for the competition website.
In 2011 he created the site «Composers of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music» on the piano.ru portal (http://www.piano.ru/gnes.html), providing scores and audio materials in Russian and English; in 2013 he added the section «Musicologists of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music» (http://www.piano.ru/muzykoved.html). Both resources are updated on a regular basis.
For over fifteen years he has maintained the sheet‑music library site www.piano.ru/library.html, now one of Russia’s leading online music resources, with its holdings constantly expanding.
He is the author of a number of courses on the restoration and processing of scores and books, on the principles of organising electronic libraries, and on information environments for the professional musician. He has contributed to syllabi on the history of electronic and computer music and on musical acoustics, and has compiled extensive teaching, illustrative, and audio‑visual materials (CDs, videos, and so on).
In 2012 he led a course in computer literacy for teachers of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, «Using Computers to Create an Information Environment for the Professional Musician», followed by a cycle of lectures on the same subject at the Academy’s Continuing Professional Development Centre in February 2013.
Since 2006 he has presented annual piano class concerts featuring his prize‑winning students at the Alexander Scriabin Memorial Museum.
In 2013 he developed a set of computer‑based teaching programmes in solfeggio for years 1–4 of children’s music schools, which have been in active use across Russia since 2014.
Since 2016 he has given regular masterclasses in piano at Children’s School of Arts No. 1 named after G. V. Sviridov in Balashikha.
Between 2015 and 2017 he developed a course in music informatics, approved by the Department of Computer Music, for music schools and schools of the arts, which is now being implemented in educational institutions in the Orenburg Region and neighbouring areas.
Awards:
Silver Medal of the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements for a computer‑based expert medical system for early diagnosis (1989), and the badge «For Achievement in Culture» of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation (2001).
