Performer (accordion), teacher.
He was born in Kolomna and graduated from Children’s Music School No. 3 in Kolomna (class of O. A. Makarova), the Moscow College of the Moscow State Institute of Music named after A. G. Schnittke, the Moscow State Institute of Music named after A. G. Schnittke (class of Professor A. I. Ledenev) and the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (class of Professor Friedrich Robertovich Lips, People’s Artist of Russia).
In 2009 he completed postgraduate studies at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music under the artistic supervision of F. R. Lips and the academic supervision of M. I. Imkhanitsky, Doctor of Art History and Professor. He has also taken part in masterclasses given by Honoured Artist of Russia Yury V. Shishkin.
Teaching activity
Since 2006 he has taught at the Moscow State Institute of Music named after A. G. Schnittke, and since 2024 he has been Associate Professor at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. His students include laureates of international competitions in Russia (Moscow, Rostov‑on‑Don, Kursk, Belgorod, Samara) and abroad (New Zealand, Australia, China, Italy, Spain, Finland, Germany).
He gives masterclasses in Russia and other countries, including Lithuania, Slovakia, Italy, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Poland, China and South Korea, and serves on the juries of international competitions in Russia, Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Germany.
Concert activity
He has been a scholarship holder of the New Names International Charitable Foundation and the Russian Performing Art Foundation, and in 2006 he was a soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic Society. He is a laureate of around twenty international competitions and holder of the Grand Prix at the Cup of the North competition in Cherepovets, the Shabyt‑2004 competition in Astana (Kazakhstan), the Gold Prize at the April Spring International Festival in Pyongyang (DPRK) and the Richard Galliano Cup in France.
He performs regularly in Russia and abroad. He has appeared in concert programmes with symphony orchestras under conductors Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Spivakov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Igor Gromov, Vladimir Jurowski, Fyodor Chizhevsky, Alexander Vedernikov, Sergei Kondrashov, Pavel Kogan, Sergei Skripka, Sergei Tararin, Dmitry Kirpanyov and Alexander Kashaev, and with folk orchestras under Nikolai Kalinin, Igor Gromov, Nikolai Aldanov, Dmitry Dmitrienko, Nikolai Komissarov, Pavel Gorbunov, Dmitry Kozlov, Alexander Shutikov, Alexander Belov and Ivan Maslennikov.
He is a soloist with theatres including:
- the Moscow Art Theatre named after A. P. Chekhov;
- the Moscow Academic Satire Theatre;
- the Arkady Raikin Satirikon Russian State Theatre;
- the Moscow Theatre School of Modern Drama;
- Teatrium on Serpukhovka under Teresa Durova;
- the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre.
Publications
- Transcriptions and Arrangements for Accordion, compiled by S. V. Osokin, Moscow: Soglasie Publishers, ISMN 979‑0‑9003218‑2‑4;
- Ensemble Repertoire for Accordion, teaching aid, compiled by S. V. Osokin, Moscow: Soglasie Publishers, ISBN 978‑5‑907038‑85‑1;
- Jazz Arrangements for Accordion, teaching aid, compiled by S. V. Osokin, Moscow: Soglasie Publishers, ISBN 978‑5‑907038‑97‑4;
- The Art of Accordion Playing. Minimalism, teaching aid, compiled by S. V. Osokin, Moscow: Soglasie Publishers, ISBN 978‑5‑907616‑18‑9.
Published articles
- S. V. Osokin, «The History of the Emergence and Development of the Bayan and Accordion within the Family of Hand‑Held Free‑Reed Instruments», Bulletin of the International Centre Art and Education, Moscow, No. 1, 2021, pp. 50–64.
Discography
- 2008 – Vechnoye Vozvrashcheniye (Eternal Returning), ART‑156;
- 2011 – Il Cinema per Sempre, ART‑229;
- 2014 – Il Dolce Dolore, ART‑287;
- 2016 – Space, ART‑344.
