Studied with Maya Glezarova in Moscow and completed his studies with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London
Worked as a soloist with Sir Neville Marriner, Vladimir Jurowski, Neemi Järvi, Marek Janowski, Vassili Sinaisky, Jan Pascal Tortelier, Mikhail Jurowski, Gerd Albrecht, Alexander Vedernikov, Michael Sanderling, Arvo Volmer and Antoni Wit
Soloed with Orchester de la Suisse Romande, London Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, the Royal Danish Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Berliner Rundfunk, São Paulo Symphony, Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the BBC Symphony, Philharmonic and the Scottish orchestras
Taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama between 2010 and 2016 and is now a professor at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität in Vienna
As an avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with Janine Jansen, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Kyung-wha Chung, Itamar Golan, Julian Rachlin, Clemens Hagen, Maxim Rysanov, Daishin Kashimoto, Martin Fröst, Nelson Goerner and Denis Matsuev at festivals such as Verbier, Edinburgh , Salzburg, Stavanger, Campos do Jordao, Annecy, Utrecht, Jerusalem, Moscow’s December Nights and the Enescu Festival in Bucharest
Appeared on numerous CDs on the labels Decca, BIS, Onyx and Naxos. The recordings of chamber music pieces by Schubert and Schönberg with Janine Jansen won the ECHO Klassik Prize. The Brahms clarinet quintet with Martin Fröst was nominated for the Gramophone Prize
