Sergey Koudriakov
1st Prize piano 2002
Born in Moscow in 1978, Sergey Koudrakov started his musical training with Valentina Aristova at the Gnessin School in Moscow before pursuing his studies with Mikhail Voskresensky at the Tchaïkovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he was named Professor in 2001. He has won a number of international competitions : 1st Prize at the Geneva Competition in 2002, 1st Prize of the Gaetano Zinetti chamber music Competition in 2004 (with Ilya Hoffman) and 1st Prize of the Géza Anda Competition in 2006. He has given hundreds of concerts in Europe, the United States and Japan.
In Switzerland, he has performed with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra and the Bienne, Bern and St. Gallen Symphony Orchestras. He has collaborated with conductors such as Vladimir Fedoseyev, Eliahu Inbal and Thomas Sanderling and has performed in festivals such as Lucerne, Montreux-Vevey, Radio-France, Ruhr, Olympus and St-Petersburg. He has recorded 10 CDs and is regularly invited to give masterclasses in Russia, Switzerland, China, Japan and Serbia.
His current projects include an anthology “Fantasiestücke of German composers” with Ilya Hoffmann, an “Arensky” project in Tokyo and a series “the Triumph of Piano” in collaboration with pianists such as Cyprien Katsaris, Kun Woo Paik and David Lively.