Background
He was born in Leningrad (now Saint St. Petersburg) and attended Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory where he was under guidance of Boris Tishchenko till 1985.
He was born in Leningrad (now Saint St. Petersburg) and attended Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory where he was under guidance of Boris Tishchenko till 1985.
In 1988 he joined Russian Union of Composers and two years later became an attendee of the International Society for Contemporary Music where his teacher was Witold Lutosławski. Foreign eight years after it, he was a teacher at the Musical College of Rimsky-Korsakov and by 2000 became a Chief Executive Officer and record producer at Studio Digital Film Production of Saint-St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. The same year he joined Music Fund and became an author of over 30 film scores.
He also worked with Leonid Korchmar, Ravil Martynov, Vasily Petrenko, Rashid Skuratov, and Alexander Titov and have traveled throughout Europe, Asia and North America.