He began studying music at the age of six at the Yury A. Shaporin Children’s Music School, trumpet class of Nikolai A. Vlasov and orchestra class of Igor G. Fortuchenko, and later at the Gnesin Moscow Special School of Music, trumpet class of Alexander M. Ikov and Vladimir M. Prokopov (graduation 2003).
As a child he was a soloist with the variety wind orchestra of the Loktev Song and Dance Ensemble on the Lenin Hills.
He became interested in jazz at the age of sixteen, joining the youth big band of Vladimir Segal at the Central House of Railway Workers, and at seventeen he was a soloist with the youth ensemble of the Melodiya Orchestra under Georgy Garanian.
In 2009 he graduated from the Jazz and Popular Music Department of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (ensemble class of Alexander V. Oseychuk, orchestra class of Anatoly O. Kroll).
In 2006 he completed the Open World educational programme, within which he performed at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Idaho, USA.
While a student at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music he performed with numerous Moscow ensembles and orchestras, including Victor Livshits’s JVL Big Band, the Igor Butman Big Band, Alexei Kozlov’s Arsenal, and others, and in 2006 took part with Anatoly Kroll in the new recording of the music for the legendary film We Are from Jazz.
From 2003 to 2006 he taught trumpet at the Dunaevsky Children’s Music School No. 2.
From 2006 to 2010 he was a member of the Oleg Lundstrem State Jazz Orchestra.
From 2010 to 2018 he served as Senior Lecturer in trumpet at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.
In 2022 he was Music Director of the television project Bolshoy dzhaz on the Russia‑Kultura TV channel.
Since 2023 he has again taught in the Department of Instrumental Jazz Performance at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music and has led Anatoly Kroll’s jazz orchestra Akademik‑Band. In the same year this ensemble, under his direction, won the Grand Prix at the 13th International Festival‑Competition Gnesin Jazz (jury chaired by Vladislav A. Grokhovsky).
In 2024 he became Artistic Director of the international festival Congress of Dixieland and Ethno‑Jazz Ensembles from BRICS Countries in Russia.
