His public debut was at age nine, with the Bryansk City Chamber Orchestra.
From 2000 to 2011, he studied at the Central School of Music of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, where his teachers included Alexander Mndoyants.
In 2011, he entered the Moscow Conservatory, and continued his piano studies with Nikolai Lugansky, Sergey Dorensky, Andrey Pisarev and Pavel Nersessian.
In 2015, Tarasevich-Nikolaev recorded his debut disc, featuring works by Debussy and Ravel, for the Acousence label.
His performance at the Sydney competition led to a joint recording contract arrangement with Tarasevich-Nikolaev by Decca Classics and Universal Music Australia.