Sergej Krylov

Sergej Krylov left the Central Music School in Moscow, where he worked with Sergey Kravchenko and Abram Shtern, for Cremona and the academy of Salvatore Accardo. Born in Moscow in 1970, he won the Lipizer competition at Gorizia in 1989, the Stradivari competition in Cremona in 1998 and the Fritz Kreisler in Vienna in 2000. Since 2008 he has been chief conductor of the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, and since 2012 he has taught in Lugano. Yefim Bronfman, Mischa Maisky, Yuri Bashmet and Denis Matsuev are among his chamber partners, and he took part in Twin Spirits, the Schumann project filmed with Sting. He began the violin at five, in a family of musicians. His records include Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and Paganini's twenty-four caprices for Deutsche Grammophon, the first performance of Ezio Bosso's Esoconcerto with the Filarmonica del Teatro La Fenice under the composer, and Penderecki's Metamorphosen with Penderecki conducting. He has taken the Russian National Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic, I Pomeriggi Musicali, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and the Zagreb Philharmonic, and has judged the Tchaikovsky and Fritz Kreisler competitions as well as the Paganini in Genoa, where he chairs the jury.