Born in 1980 in Novorossiysk into a family of musicians.
He began studying music at the age of five.
He graduated from the Lyceum of the Rachmaninoff Rostov Conservatory, from the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory in the class of M.I. Pekarsky (2002), and completed postgraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory in the “Contemporary Orchestra” programme (2004).

He has worked in orchestras including the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic, the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra and the orchestra of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre.
Since 2013 he has been a principal of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra.

For more than ten years he was a member of Mark Pekarsky’s Percussion Ensemble.

He has taken part in the premieres of many works, some of which were written especially for him.

A soloist of the Studio for New Music ensemble since 2001.