Sergei Glavatskih

Graduate/Post-Graduate studies: Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Special Music School of the Ural Conservatory

Sergei Glavatskih is a pianist of the distinguished Neuhaus tradition and a student of the legendary Evgeny Malinin, with whom he also completed postgraduate studies. For many years he served as assistant to Vera Gornostaeva, continuing the artistic lineage of Heinrich Neuhaus.

 

Born in Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) in 1970, he received his early training with L. Raitsyna and later studied at the Special Music School of the Ural Conservatory under M. Olle. In 1988 he became a laureate of the All-Union Competition in Tbilisi and subsequently entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Malinin’s class, graduating in 1993 and completing his postgraduate studies in 1995.

 

Sergei Glavatskih is a prizewinner of several international competitions, including the Emil Hajek Memorial (Belgrade, 1990), the First Rachmaninov International Competition (Moscow, 1993), the Eduard Flipse Competition (Rotterdam, 1996), and the piano competitions in Epinal (France, 1997) and Porto (Portugal, 1997).

 

Since 1994 he has been a soloist of the Moscow State Philharmonic. He has taught at the Moscow Conservatory since 1999, working first as assistant to E. R. Richter and V. V. Gornostaeva, and currently serves as an Associate Professor.

 

Sergei Glavatskih gives regular masterclasses in Taiwan, Germany, the United States, and throughout Russia and the CIS. He is frequently invited as a jury member of national and international competitions and performs widely in recital, chamber, and orchestral settings. Since 2008 he has been a member of the “New Trio” with violinist Dmitry German and cellist Oleg Bugaev.