Born March 10, 1980 in Sochi. Began studying the violin at the age of five. In 1991, he won various competitions, including 1st prize at the All-Union Competition «Young Virtuoso» in Kyiv, became a laureate of the All-Union Prokofiev Competition in Alma-Ata, and was also awarded the «Personal Scholarship» from the Soviet Children’s Fund named after V. I. Lenin. A year later, he became a laureate of the International Violin Competition in Urgench (Uzbekistan) and a diploma winner at the International Competition named after B. Dvarionas in Vilnius. In 1999, he graduated from the Crossroads High School of Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles and in 2003, he completed his postgraduate studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, receiving an artist’s diploma. In the USA he won various competitions, scholarships and awards, including the Herbert Zipper Certificate for Instrumental Mastery and 1st Prize at the 1st International Viola Chamber Music Competition in Dallas.
In 2003 he won a position in the second violin section of the Dallas Opera Orchestra. In 2007 he won 2nd prize and two special prizes at the International Violin Competition in Sion-Valais (Switzerland). In the same year he won a position in the first violin section of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, with which he performed at Carnegie Hall. In 2012 he won the position of coordinating concertmaster of the second violins of the National Theatre Mannheim. He was also the first violin of the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra (Denmark) 2015-2016.
Sergey has performed solo and chamber music at various concerts and festivals in the cities of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, the USA and Europe, collaborating on both violin and viola with world-famous artists. He has repeatedly published positive reviews in newspapers. He has also been a guest concertmaster of the first and second violins in many symphony and opera orchestras in Europe and the USA, including the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Oper Frankfurt and the Dresden Philharmonic.
In 2018, he won the position of second assistant concertmaster at the Central Saxon Theatre and Philharmonic in Freiberg (Saxony, Germany), where he was also the first violin.
Sergey also composes. His compositions have been performed at concerts and festivals in the United States, including the Young Artists International concert series, the New Jersey Academy of Music, and the Sion-Valais International Music Festival (Switzerland), Spain, and Germany. The Five Pieces for Violin and Piano were published by Lovebird Music in Dallas, and several others can be found on YouTube. The trumpet and organ composition Ich hatte keine Zeit zu üben (I didn’t have time to practice) was released on CD in 2020, and the seven-movement jazz suite for saxophone, trombone, cello, percussion, and piano A Trip Down Memory Lane was reviewed favorably by Das Orchester in 2024.
Since 2023, Sergey has been teaching at the violin department of the King Hussein Foundation National Music Conservatory in Amman (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan).