Biography

Sergey POSPELOV is one of the most promising young musicians of his generation. He was born in 1990 in Rostov-on-Don. At the age of eleven he made his debut with an orchestra, performing the Mendelssohn concerto at the Rostov Philharmonic Hall. In 2009 he graduated from the Central Music School of Moscow State Conservatory, in 2014 he graduated from the Conservatory itself and in 2017 he completed his post-graduate studies at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory under Professor Eduard Grach,

People's Artist of the USSR. Since 2018 Sergey has been an assistant of the Moscow State Conservatory in the class of Eduard Grach. At present he is a teacher in the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory at the same

professor’s chair.

Sergey Pospelov is the winner of five first prizes at prestigious international competitions: the Gnesin Piano and Violin Competition in Moscow (2003), the David Oistrakh Violin Competition (2006), the 41st Concertino

Praga Competition (2007), the 15th Alberto Curci International Violin Competition (Naples, 2008) and the 6th Abram Yampolsky Violin Competition (Moscow, 2012). He is also the winner of the New Russia Orchestra Prize established by the Yuri Bashmet Foundation (2006).

The musician has toured throughout Russia and abroad - in Belarus, Latvia, Armenia, China, Israel, the Czech Republic, Romania, Italy, Poland, Japan, France and Germany. Sergey Pospelov has performed with the State

Symphony Orchestra "New Russia" and the ensemble "Soloists of Moscow" conducted by Yuri Bashmet, the Kazan Chamber Orchestra "La Primavera" conducted by R. Abyazov, the Novosibirsk State Symphony Orchestra, the Ural State Symphony Orchestra, Lyceum-Camerata conducted by Wolf Usminsky, the Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Katz and Alexander Mileikovsky, Orchestras of North America under Anne Harrigan, the Neapolitan Teatro di San Carlo Orchestra (Italy), the Czech Radio Orchestra headed by Vladimir Válek, the Timisoara Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania) conducted by Yuri Botnar, the Arpeggione Chamber Orchestra by Valentin Uryupin, the Kuban Symphony Orchestra by Vladimir

Ponkin, the Moscovia Chamber Orchestra by Eduard Grach, the Symphony Orchestra of the Armenian Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre by Karen Durgaryan, the Pluri Art Symphony Orchestra by Yuri Medianik, the Russian State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography by Sergey Skripka, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia of Evgeny Svetlanov, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra of the Pavel Slobodkin Centre conducted by Arif Dadashev, the Russian Presidential Orchestra conducted by Anton Orlov, the

Symphony Orchestra of the New Opera Theatre, the Tomsk State Symphony Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestra of the Far East. Sergey’s artistic partners include Shlomo Mintz, Rudolf Koelman, Artyom Dervoed,

Stanislav Kochanovsky, Yuri Bashmet, Yuri Medianik, Nikolay Khondzinsky, Mikhail Granovsky, Anton Shaburov, Ilya Derbilov, Arnaldo De Felice, Alexei Lundin, Philipp Kopachevsky, Andrey Yaroshinsky, Alexander Ramm, Daniel Kogan, Ilya Hoffman, Fedor Amosov, Avangard Leontiev, Artyom Vargaftik,

Vladimir Ovchinnikov.

Sergey Pospelov is a participant of the "Stradivarius Project" - Moscow, Great Hall of the Conservatory 2011, Bordeaux (France) 2012; also, a participant of the festival dedicated to the 90th anniversary of L. Kogan -

Moscow, Great Hall of the Conservatory, 2014, to which Sergey was invited personally by the Kogan family.

In 2012 Sergey Pospelov participated in the project called "Music of Wieniawski on Stradivarius' Violin" at the Glinka National Museum in Moscow.

In 2013 he performed the cycle "All Sonatas for Violin and Piano by L.van Beethoven" in duet with Margarita Pospelova.

In 2018 Sergey Pospelov played a one-of-a-kind "Concerto Interview". The three stunning instruments of the Italian school – by Nicola Amati, Antonio Stradivari, and Guarneri Del Gesù – were lying in front of the

audience, and the musician played each one of them depending on the piece of the music, and during the breaks he discussed and compared certain musical timbres and masters themselves.

Also in 2018, he performed six sonatas for solo violin and two poems for violin and piano "French Paganini" by Eugène Ysaÿe at the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. The complexity of these sonatas surpasses

the caprices of Niccolò Paganini, whereas the poems are the pinnacle of musical thought.

Sergey performed solo concerts in Tel Aviv (Israel), the programs were put on the radio station "Kol Ha Musica") and were received by the Israeli public with great interest.
In 2017 - 2018 he actively toured the U.S. and performed with symphony orchestras led by Anne Herrigan. In 2017, Sergey created his own chamber orchestra, which was named the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. The
first performance took place on the stage of the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory where Sergey Pospelov gave a solo concert accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra. It was also there that Sergey made his
first debut as a conductor. The concert program was broadcast on Radio Orphey.
Six months later, Sergey Pospelov once again took to the stage of the Great Hall of the Conservatory with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra with a new program, where again the musician showed the highest class of skill.
Amid these bright events, the recordings of those concerts were selected for the Euroradio, and from then on classical music lovers in Europe can enjoy them on various radio stations and platforms online.
Also since 2017, Sergey has been perfecting himself as a conductor under his father Sergey Petrovich Pospelov, who has devoted his entire life to music in Russia. For the past decades Sergey's father has been head of the Operetta Theater and the Musical Theater of Opera and Ballet in Rostov-on-Don.
Since 2018, Sergey Pospelov has been a regular guest at the Vladimir Spivakov Moscow International House of Music. His concerts attract great public interest.
Since 2019 Sergey has become a conductor of Dubna Symphony Orchestra.
Since 2020 Pospelov has become an artist of the classical music radio station "Orpheus". In 2022 Sergey took part in the famous Vadim Repin’s "Trans-Siberian Art Festival" in Novosibirsk.In 2023 Sergey won the prize of «440 hertz» competition in nomination «solo with orchestra», where he
performed three violin concertos of XX century in concert. This competition established by Yuri Temirkanov. In Yekaterinburg he took part in the world-famous music festival "Crazy Days", where he played nine concerts
in just three days. In Moscow Sergey played three violin concertos with the symphony orchestra in one evening.

Sergey is also actively teaching and giving master classes throughout Russia and abroad. Now Sergey plays a unique violin made by the Italian master Andrea Gagliano in 1754.
The combination of Sergey Pospelov's talent, determination, and professionalism already allows music critics to say that this young violinist-conductor has very serious prospects.

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