He was born in Moscow in 1965 into a family of musicians and started playing the violin at the age of five. In 1971 he entered the Gnessin Special Music School in the class of Professor Svetlova.

In 1979 he won the International Youth Competition Concertino-Praha 79 in Czechoslovakia. In 1983 he finished the Special School of Music in Gnessin and entered the Higher Institute of Music and Pedagogy in Gnessin (class of professor Akhtiámova), where he obtained his Diploma in 1990, having also attended the discipline of String Quartet with professor Valentin Berlinski, cellist of the famous Borodin String Quartet.

In 1987 he joined the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Dmitri Kitaenko and later Vassily Sinaiski. At the same time he was invited to collaborate with the Soviet Festival Orchestra and the State Chamber Orchestra. With these formations he performed in more than thirty countries.

In 1991 he was invited by colleagues from the School and Institute to join a chamber music group called the Moscow Piano Quartet. In 1993, this quartet came to Portugal at the invitation of the Escola Profissional de Arcos do Estoril and, since then, he has performed several concerts in Portugal and abroad.

In 1996, he joined the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa as a violinist, having performed numerous concerts with this formation, both solo and chamber music. In the meantime, he collaborated with the Orquestra Nacional do Porto, having formed in this same city the Trio Portus Cale.

He has also integrated several projects of OrchestrUtopica. From 2007 to 2009, he worked with the Russian National Orchestra under the direction of maestro Mikhail Pletnyóv, collaborating with the Brahms Trio with whom he performed in several international concerts and recorded a CD.

He returned to Portugal in the 2009/10 season, resuming his position in the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa.