Born into a family of musicians, studied the Violoncello
and Piano winning a Siberian / Ural Youth Competition at the age of 12. Then studied at the Moscow Conservatoire College, and later at the Moscow
Conservatoire, itself. Teachers were Maria Tchaikovskaia, and Natalia
Shahovskaia, both pupils of M. Rostropovich.
While attending participated in the Moscow
Autumn Festival in 1990 and 1991, playing music by contemporary Moscovite
composers. Was also a member of the Conservatory Soloists' Ensemble and
played in Soviet-American and Soviet-German Youth Orchestras under the baton
of Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Valery Gergeiev and Dimitri Kitaenko. During
this period recorded on compact disk for the "Melodiya"
company music by Russian composers.
From 1991 to 1993 played in the Russian National
Orchestra, conducted by Michael Pletneyev touring Japan, United States,
Germany, Spain and England. In 1993 came to Milan, Italy after being
appointed 1st Cellist to the Orchestra "Guido Cantelli". Recently,
playing in duo with the pianist Svetlana Tchernova, won the following
prizes at International competitions :
