Born in Moscow in 1973. He graduated from the Gnessin Music College in the trumpet class of I. M. Granitsky (1993). In 1994–1995 he studied trumpet at the Paris Conservatoire with Pierre Gillet, soloist of the Paris Opera. He graduated from the Ippolitov-Ivanov State Musical Pedagogical Institute in the trumpet class of V. R. Traibman, soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic, and completed the assistantship-internship at the Moscow Conservatory in the “Contemporary Music Orchestra” programme (2004).

1997–2001 – member of the Young Russia orchestra. He has performed and recorded with the Russian National Orchestra, the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia under V. T. Spivakov.

He took part in a world tour with L. Pavarotti (2004) and has played with the conductors E. F. Svetlanov, A. N. Lazarev, M. I. Pletnev and I. A. Dronov. He has toured the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, the USA, France, Qatar, Norway, Italy and Azerbaijan.

Soloist of the Studio for New Music ensemble since 2000.