He has played in duo with Martha Argerich and has given world premieres, including those of Ginastera’s Second and Third sonatas.
He has maintained close connections with his native country and regularly performs in Moscow's most important concert halls, including the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory; he also performs with the State Philharmonic Orchestra.
Golovin dedicated much time to teaching – he was a professor at the Geneva Conservatory – and his students have won first prizes in various international competitions.
1, B minor Sonata and Mephisto Waltz, chamber music, and the piano concertos by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Nikolai Tcherepnin, and Rodion Shchedrin.
Golovin has given many master classes including at the Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum in Salzburg, Manhattan School of Music, Conservatory of Buenos-Aires, Conservatory of Moscow, Oxford Philomusica Summer Academy, and Canton International Summer Music Academy.