Sergei Redkin

Sergei Redkin began to play the piano at the age of five. At the age of six he began to study music. At the same time he began training in the disciplines of improvisation and composition. In 2004 he gained admittance to Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory at Saint Petersburg, initially in the school for young gifted musicians, then, from 2009, as a regular student in the class of Alexander Sandler. In the meantime he pursued his training in composition under the guidance of Alexander Mnatsakanyan, one of the last great students of Shostakovich. In 2015 he won Third Prize and the Bronze Medal at the XV Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Valery Gergiev subsequently engaged him to concertize with the Mariinsky Orchestra in Paris, New York City, and Mexico; he also invited Redkin to take part in the Prokofiev marathon held in conjunction with Gergiev’s MPHIL 360° Festival in Munich. In 2017, Sergei Redkin was selected by Maki Namekawa, Dennis Russell Davies and Philip Glass as the new Ruhr Piano Festival scholarship holder for the 2017-2018 season. Redkin’s 2018 début performance at the Festival was a part of that scholarship prize.