From 2001 to 2006 he continued his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and afterwards at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf.
In 2003 he was awarded the first prize of the piano competition Kissinger Klavierolymp (together with Martin Helmchen).
[1][2] In 2007 Tokarev published his debut album at Sony Classical with works of Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin and Alexander Rosenblatt.
An album with works of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Jean-Philippe Rameau und César Franck followed in 2008.
1 of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, accompanied by the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia under conductor Vladimir Spivakov was published in 2010.