SERGEI DOGADIN

Sergei Dogadin is the winner of ten international competitions, including:

2002- AndreaPostacchini International Violin Competition – Grand Prix, First Prize and a Special Jury Prize (Italy)

2005- Paganini International Violin Competition - First Prize (Russia)

2009-ARD International Music Competition – BayerischerRundfunk Special Prize (awarded for the first time in the history of the competition), Prize forthe best performance of Mozart concerto and Prize for the best performance of a Commissioned Piece (Germany)

2011-XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition – SecondPrize (First prize not awarded) and the Audience Prize (Russia)

2015-IX Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover - First Prize (Germany)

2016- I International Isaac Stern Violin Competition - Second Prize (China)

Sergei is the grant-holder of the Russian Ministry of Culture,Prize-winner oftheMozartSociety in Dortmund (Germany), winner of the award established by Maestro Yuri Temirkanov and winner of the Prize of the President of Russia.

Sergei has been on tour inRussia, USA, Japan, China, Germany, Austria, France, Netherlands, Great Britain, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Ireland, Serbia, Romania, Moldavia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia,Macao,Chile, Turkeyand Azerbaijan.

Since making his major debut in 2002 at the Grand Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonie under the button of VasilyPetrenko and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Dogadin has performed on world’s most renowned venues, and has collaborated with Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Berlin Symphony Orchestra,Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, NordwestdeutschePhilharmonie, Frankfurter Museum Orchestra, Nordic Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, "KremerataBaltica" Chamber Orchestra, Munich Kammerorchester,Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie,StuttgarterKammerorchester, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, "Bruno Walter" Symphony Orchestra,Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish Chamber Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, National Orchestras ofEstonia and Latvia, State Symphony Orchestra of Russia as well as other foreign and Russian orchestras.

In 2003 SergeiDogadinand the Ulster Symphony Orchestra recorded the Alexander Glazunov's violin concerto for BBC.

Many of Dogadin’s performances have been broadcasted worldwide-on Mezzo classic (France),«Medici.tv»,European Broadcasting Union (EBU), BR Klassic, WDR and NDR Kultur (Germany), YLE Radio (Finland), NHK (Japan), BBC (UK), Polish Radio, Estonian and Latvian Radio.

Sergei has takenpartinfestivals «Stars of the White Nights»,«Musical collection»,«Musical Olympus», «Arts Square», «Crescendo», Mstislav Rostropovich festival,George Enescu festival, Tivoli festival,Herbstfestspiele Baden-Baden,Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival,«Festival International de Colmar»,Oleg Kagan Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, «Vladimir Spivakov Invites», Baltic Sea Festival, «Vivarte», etc.

He has collaborated with such prominent conductors as Valery Gergiev, Yury Temirkanov, Vladimir Ashkenazi, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Simonov,Manfred Honeck, Aldo Ceccato, Thomas Sanderling,Vasily Petrenko,AnuTali, Muhai Tang, Ken Takaseki, Dmitry Liss, Alexander Sladkovsky,Alexander Dmitriev, Nikolay Alekseev, Saulus Sondeckis,MichailTatarnikov,Alexander Rudin, Ken-David Mazur, Kevin Griffiths, Fabio Mastrangelo, MichałNesterowicz, Jack Martin Haendlerand many others.

Sharing the stage with outstanding musicians is an important part of Sergei's concert life. Among his partners: Elisabeth Leonskaja, Viktor Tretiakov, David Geringas, Boris Kuschnir, Denis Matsuev, Daniil Trifonov, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Maxim Rysanov, Nikolai Tokarev, Tatiana Vasileva, Vadim Holodenko, Julian Milkis, Alexei Ogrintchouk, Boris Andrianov, Gil Shohat, Anna Vinnitskayaand others.

Dogadin hadstudied in the most famous and significant musical institutions: at the St.Petersburg Conservatory (with Prof. Vladimir Ovcharek), at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad (with Prof. Maxim Vengerov), at the High School of Music in Cologne (with Prof. Mihaela Martin) and at the University of Music in Graz (with Prof. Boris Kuschnir).

Currently, Sergei improves his skills with Prof. Boris Kuschnir at the Music and Arts University in Vienna.

In 2008 he has released his first CD album on the «Solo Musica» label (Munich, Germany), including the compositions by Peter Tchaikovsky, Sergey Rachmaninov, Sergey Prokofiev and Alexander Rosenblatt.

In 2017/2018it is expected a release of two CD albums:Shostakovichviolin concerto № 1with the State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan under the direction of Maestro A. Sladkovsky,(«Melody» label);Shostakovichsonata for violin and piano and his 24 Preludes (arrangement for violin and piano by D.Tsyganov/L.Auerbach), («Naxos» label).

Since 2017 SergeiDogadin is a guest professor at the Liangzhu International Arts Academy (China).

SergeiDogadin had enjoyed the honor of performing during several festivals on NiccoloPaganini’s and Johann Strauss’s violins.

He currently plays the Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin (Parma, 1765) provided by the "Fritz Behrens Stiftung" (Hannover, Germany).