Sergei Krylov (violinist)

At the age of 10 he was already a student of Sergey Kravchenko and Abram Shtern at 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 18 Krylov won first prize at the Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition in Gorizia (Italy); аfter that, he enrolled in Salvatore Accardo's class in The Walter Stauffer Academy in Cremona.

Sergej Krylov has also collaborated with such conductors as Yuri Temirkanov, Valery Gergiev, Vladislav Czarnecki, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dmitry Kitaenko, Mikhail Pletnev, Omer Welber, Andrey Boreiko, Yutaka Sado, Zoltán Kocsis, Dmitry Liss, Vladimir Yurovsky and Yury Bashmet.

Yefim Bronfman, Elina Garanca, Yury Bashmet, Denis Matsuev, Itamar Golan, Alexander Knyazev, Bruno Canino, Mischa Maisky, Nobuko Imai, Alexander Buzlov, Nikolai Lugansky, and many other outstanding musicians have been his chamber music partners.

As the result of collaboration with Sting he recorded DVD “Twin Spirits”, dedicated to Robert Schumann.