Sergei Redkin

About

Born in 1991, Sergei Redkin is originally from Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. He began playing the piano at the age of six at the State Music Academy, and soon began taking classes in improvisation and composition. In 2004, he moved to Saint Petersburg and began his training at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. He initially joined the specialised school for talented musicians, before taking classes with Alexander Sandler from 2009 onwards.
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He also continued his composition studies with Alexander Mnatsakanian, one of Shostakovich's last students. Thanks to a scholarship from the St Petersburg House of Music, Sergei Redkin was admitted several times from 2011 onwards to the International Piano Academy Lake Como. There he collaborated with musicians such as Dmitri Bachkirov, Peter Frankl and Fu Cong.
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He won the Maj Lind Piano Competition in Helsinki in 2012, the Prokofiev Competition in Saint Petersburg in 2013 and the bronze medal at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow in 2015. Valery Gergiev subsequently took him on tour with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra to Paris, New York and Mexico, and invited him to participate in the Prokofiev marathon in November 2016 as part of the MPHIL 360° festival in Munich, where Sergei performed the composer's last two piano sonatas.

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He performs in recitals and as a chamber musician not only in Moscow, Saint Petersburg and other Russian cities, but also in Germany, Austria, France, Poland, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland. During the 2016-2017 season, he performed at the Hofburg in Vienna, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Théâtre des Variétés in Monaco and the prestigious Lucerne Festival in Switzerland.
 
Since 2017, he has been artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, under the direction of Louis Lortie.
 
In 2021, Sergei won Second Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition.