Sergey Akimov
Moscow, Russia
Tel. +7 915 388 7076
Akimych23@mail.ru

Sergey Akimov was born in Moscow in 1989 and had his first conducting lessons at the age of 13. In 2011 he became a student at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he studied with Gennady Rozhdestvensky and graduated with outstanding results. During his student years, he worked
with the Concert Orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory assisting Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Jurowsky and others. In 2014 he gained experience as a guest conductor at the Yakutsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, where he conducted Turandot, Madama Butterfly and Eugene Onegin. A year later, he collaborated with the Opéra national de Montpellier.

After graduating, he was appointed a staff conductor in Moscow Operetta Theatre, where he already conducted such works as Die Fledermaus, Ball im Savoy and Die lustige Witwe.

Sergey was a participant of the Salzburg Festival 2018 as a finalist of the prestigious Nestlé & Salzburg Young Conductors Award. There he had a concert with the Camerata Salzburg in the Mozarteum Grosser Saal.

In Russia, Sergey Akimov has established himself as a highly talented conductor, providing unique, high-level concert programmes with his chamber orchestra Affrettando. He gave the Russian premiere of a chamber arrangement of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps, as well as the first Russian performance of Gershwin’s one-act opera Blue Monday.

Sergey Akimov is also well-known as the creator of various arrangements, including versions of symphonic works for chamber orchestra and orchestrations of famous popular music, and well as being a multi-instrumentalist.