Sergei Krylov (violinist)

Sergey Alexandrovich Krylov (Russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Крыло́в; born 2 December 1970, Moscow, USSR) is a Russian and Italian violinist and conductor.

Sergej Krylov was born in Moscow in a family of musicians. The father Alexander Krylov was an outstanding violin maker. The mother Liudmila Krylova is a famous piano player and a teacher.

At the age of 5 Sergej Krylov began violin lessons. In a year he performed his first concert. At the age of 10 he was already a student of Sergey Kravchenko and Abram Shtern in the Central Music School at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and made his orchestra debut and started to perform in Russia, China, Poland, Finland and Germany. At the age of 16 he recorded a disc together with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Saulius Sondeckis in the company Melodiya.

At the age of 18 the musician got the first award at Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition in Gorizia (Italy), after that he started to frequent lessons with Salvatore Accardo in The Walter Stauffer Academy. The young musician gained considerable publicity after getting the first award at Antonio Stradivari Competition in Cremona and the first award at the prestige Fritz Kreisler competition in Vienna.

Sergej Krylov performs on the stages of the Berlin and the Munich Philharmonic Halls, in the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, in Théatre des Champs-Elysées and Salle Pleyel in Paris, in the Megaron in Athens, in Bozar in Brussels, in the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, in Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, in the China National Concert Hall in Beijing, in Teatrola Fenice in Venezia, in La Scala Theatre in Milan, in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, in the Concert Hall named after Tchaikovsky (the Moscow Philharmonic Society), in the Grand Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Society named after Shostakovich.

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