From 1975 to 1998 Sergei Polusmiak was teaching at Kharkiv Conservatory and at the Kharkiv Special Music School for Gifted Children Sergei Polusmiak started his professional career as a music educator and as a concert pianist by teaching, giving master classes, playing solo piano recitals, chamber music recitals and as a soloist with symphony orchestras.
In 1998 Sergei Polusmiak moved to United States and became the Artist in Residence and the first recipient of Tom and Christine Neyer Family Professor of Music at Northern Kentucky University from 1998 until 2012.
[1][2] Sergei Polusmiak performed concerts in Russia, France, Germany, Belgium, Mexico, Argentina, China and the United States.
He was presented "Sergei at the Aronoff" piano program at the Grand Opening of the Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, and has appeared as a soloist with Kharkiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Ukraine; Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Keith Lockhart, Music Director, USA; Northern Kentucky Symphony, USA; Russian Chamber Orchestra of San Francisco, USA and Shanghai Philharmonic, Shanghai, China.
Sergei Polusmiak has conducted master classes in Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, USA; College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, USA; Joanna Hodges International Symposium, Vancouver, USA; "Musicalia", Toulouse, France; "Encuentro International de Pianistas", San Juan, Argentina; Oriental Arts Center, Shanghai, China and others.