Then he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and graduated in three and a half years due to a busy concert and tour schedule.

In January 1988, the musician’s first performance with an orchestra without a conductor took place because of a sad event – two days before the concert, maestro E. Mravinsky had died.

However, held in the Leningrad Philharmonic, the concert marked the beginning of a series of successful projects with an orchestra without a conductor.

Sergei Stadler became an organizer of the two-day festival “The Paganini Violin in the Hermitage”, held with the support of the governments of St. Petersburg and Genoa and sponsored by the fashion house Trussardi.

Also he was the first performer to be honored to play the violin “Il Cannone” Guarneri del Gesu in open concerts, after which Academician Likhachev named him «Russian Paganini».

In 2001, he played the marathon concert “10 Beethoven Sonatas in One Evening” together with his sister Julia Stadler in Moscow, St. Petersburg, cities of Russia and Europe.

Led by Sergei Stadler, L. Bernstein’s Dibbuk, O. Messiaen’s Turangalil symphony, H. Berlioz’s operas, Ivan the Terrible by G. Bizet, and Peter the Great by A. Gretry were performed in Russia for the first time.

In addition, the Orchestra was remembered for such opera productions as Tannhäuser by R. Wagner, Turandot, Tosca and Manon Lescaut by G. Puccini, Il Trovatore by D. Verdi, Die Fledermaus by I. Strauss, Le Nozze di Figaro by V.A.

Since 2018, he has been leading an educational programme “The instrumental performance practice: violin” at Saint Petersburg State University.

He holds master classes in Russia, the USA, Germany, Norway, Poland, Israel, Finland, Spain, France, Italy, Singapore, China, Portugal and other countries.

On such music festivals as: Salzburg, Vienna, Bonn, Helsinki, Istanbul, Athens, Jerusalem, Boston, Bregenz, Prague, Mallorca, Spoletto, Stavanger, Provence, etc.

Temirkanov, V. Gergiev, F. Welser-Möst, V. Fedoseev, F. Luisi, M. Pletnev, P. Steinberg, S. Bychkov, B. de Billi, M. Yanovsky, S. Sondeckis, V. Neumann, L. Gardelli and others.

Bashmet, N. Gutman, A. Knyazev, T. Merk, D. Geringas, P. Zukerman, N. Znaider, D. Sitkovetsky, L. Kavakos, A. Rudin, F. Helmerson, B. Pergamenschikov, G. Rivinius, R. Kirshbaum, A. Menezes, P. Donohoe, J.-Y.

Thibaudet, W. Sawallisch, E. Kisin, G. Oppitz, D. Matsuev, M. Dalberto, B. Berezovsky, D. Alekseev, J. Lagerspetz, F. Gottlieb, Yu.