Born in 1955, he graduated from the Gnesin State Music and Pedagogical Institute in 1982 in the bayan class of Yuri A. Vostryolov and the conducting class of Alexander B. Pozdnyakov.
From 1981 to 1996 he was an artist of the N. P. Osipov State Academic Russian Folk Orchestra, and from 1996 to 2003 conductor of the timbre‑bayan orchestra of the A. G. Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music.
Since 2004 he has been Principal Conductor of the V. S. Loktev Song and Dance Ensemble, and from 2006 to 2011 he served as conductor of the N. P. Budashkin Russian Folk Instrument Orchestra of the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts.
Since 2009 he has taught at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, where he leads the orchestral class (as director and conductor of the Academy’s bayan and accordion orchestra) and teaches conducting, orchestration, and score reading; since 2014 he has also been a conductor of the State Academic Orchestra «Russkiye uzory» («Russian Patterns»).
He holds the titles «Honoured Worker of General Education of the Russian Federation» and «Honoured Worker of Culture of the City of Moscow».
He is the author of a Candidate’s dissertation, a monograph, and a number of articles, and for three decades has collaborated with leading ensembles and musicians as an arranger and orchestrator of instrumentations, arrangements, and transcriptions.
The Russian Folk Instrument Orchestra «Serebryanyye struny» («Silver Strings») of the N. P. Budashkin Children’s Music School, founded by Oleg V. Tarasov, is a laureate of numerous festivals and competitions.
