From childhood he was passionate about music: from the age of eleven he played in a brass band, first on trumpet and then on baritone.
He later studied for several years at the Sergei S. Prokofiev Music School with Boris P. Grigoryev, Professor at the Gnesin State Music and Pedagogical Institute (now the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music), trombone class.
In 1976 he graduated from the Moscow Radio‑Engineering College with a specialisation in electronic optics (opto‑electronic devices, lasers).
In 1979 he graduated from the Moscow Experimental Studio of Popular and Jazz Music at the Moskvorechye House of Culture (Moskvorechye Jazz Studio) as a bass guitarist (now the Yury P. Kozyrev Moscow College of Improvised Music).
After graduating he taught bass guitar there for four years, and for a year and a half also studied saxophone at the same institution under Alexander V. Oseychuk, now Professor at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.
From 1983 to 1991 he worked in the Sovremennik Variety Orchestra (Rosconcert) under Anatoly Kroll, first as a bass guitarist and, from 1985, also as an arranger.
In 1987 he graduated from the Gnesin State Music College, Popular Music Department on Bolshaya Ordynka, specialising in bass guitar. In 1992 he graduated from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music with a degree in popular orchestra instruments (bass guitar and double bass), class of Anatoly Sobolev.
As a bass guitarist with the Sovremennik Orchestra he took part in several Moscow jazz festivals and in international jazz festivals such as Prague‑1986 and Jazz Yatra‑1989 (India), and appeared in the films We Are from Jazz (1983) and A Winter Evening in Gagry (1985).
Since 1991 he has worked at various recording studios in Moscow as an arranger, sound engineer, and sound producer, releasing more than ten cassette albums and CDs, as well as the soundtrack for the animated film The Man in the Air (1993).
As an arranger he has worked across the whole spectrum of contemporary music – symphonic, jazz, and popular. In 1998 he contributed to the creation and production of the music‑theatre piece I Will Wait for You… (written and directed by Gedryus Matskevičius, music by Maria Fedorova, arranging, orchestration, sound production, and stage sound design by Vladimir Fedorov).
As an arranger he has collaborated with ensembles such as the Turetsky Choir and Sergei Zhilin’s Fonograf Jazz Band, among others.
Teaching activity:
From 1988 to 1991 he taught jazz harmony and arranging at the Gnesin State Music College (Popular Music Department on Ordynka) and directed the student big band.
Since 2009 he has taught at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music as associate conductor and arranger of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music Big Band Akademik‑Band under People’s Artist of Russia Anatoly Kroll.
From 2008 to 2011 he taught jazz arranging and orchestration at the Moscow College of Improvised Music.
Since 2011 he has served as editor‑in‑chief and coordinator, as well as executive secretary of the jury, of the annual international jazz festival for young performers Gnesin Jazz, organised by Anatoly Kroll and the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
From 2012 to 2013 he taught jazz arranging, orchestration, and the fundamentals of improvisation at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Since 2013 he has been a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Instrumental Jazz Performance at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, teaching jazz arranging, orchestration, and the basics of jazz composition.
