Sergei Glavatskih Piano   

Born in Ekaterinburg in 1970, Sergei Glavatskih began piano studies at the age of seven. In 1980, he entered the Special Music School of the Ural State Conservatory and, two years later, participated as both pianist and composer in the International Youth Arts Festival in Sofia (Bulgaria).

In 1988 Glavatskih entered the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Professor Yevgeny Malinin and became a prizewinner at the All-Union Young Pianist's Competition the same year. Before finishing his undergraduate and graduate studies at the Conservatory, he won First Prize at the Emil Hayek Memorial International Piano Competition in Belgrade (1990), and was a prizewinner at the Rachmaninov International Piano Competition in Moscow (1993).

After graduation, Glavatskih became a soloist of the Moscow State Philharmonia and won prizes at several international piano competitions. They include the E. Flipse in Rotterdam (1996), the Epinal (France, 1997), where he also received the S.A.C.E.M. prize for contemporary music performance, and the Porto (Portugal, 1997), where he received a special prize for the best performance of a Beethoven Sonata.

His tours have taken him throughout Russia, and to Finland, Yugoslavia, Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Malta, Korea, and Japan. Glavatskih has performed as soloist with the Moscow State, Sverdlovsk, Minsk, Rostov-on-Don, and the Tomsk Philharmonic Orchestras; the JNA (Belgrade), Le Havre (France), Montpelier (France), and Cairo Symphony Orchestras; and with Novosibirsk's State Opera Orchestra, the Mozart Virtuosi, and the NHK Chamber Orchestra (Tokyo), among others. In 1992 and 1993 he took part in Odenwald Chamber Music Festival in Germany. His recordings include performances with the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra and a CD of Rachmaninov Romances with singer, Natalia Suchkova.

Sergei Glavatskih joined the faculty of the Moscow State Conservatory in 1999.