Sergey Artsibashev

Sergey Artsibashev is a Russian pianist, art historian, art analyst, and culturologist. He is also a teacher of special piano. He completed his studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in piano in 2007 with honors, and in 2010 finished postgraduate study with honors in piano art and art history, where he also trained with the noted art and film scholar V. G. Kisunko.

Since 2009, Artsibashev has been a soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic named after P. I. Tchaikovsky. He became a laureate and diploma recipient at many international competitions, including competitions named after M. V. Yudina in Saint Petersburg in 2006, Viotti in Vercelli in 2007, Sabitov in Ufa in 2009, and Maria Canals in Barcelona in 2010. He studied with Professor S. L. Naumov and later with the People's Artist of Russia, Professor S. L. Dorensky, who praised the young pianist's unusual and refined creative nature and his interpretations of Romantic composers.

Artsibashev performs concerts and scholarly-educational projects devoted to the history of music, painting, and literature in many cities of Russia, Great Britain, Spain, France, and Italy. From 2010 he has taught special piano and piano ensemble at the F. Chopin Moscow State College of Musical Performance, from 2015 he has headed the piano department, and from 2018 he has also taught his own course on the history of music in the context of world culture for piano department students.

Between 2009 and 2015 he participated in the musical realization of many productions at the Vladimir Mayakovsky Moscow Academic Theatre and the Theater on Pokrovka, where he also appeared as an actor. Within the educational project Nonfictional Education, he gives original online courses on the history of world music as well as the history and hermeneutics of world cinema. He also worked as a music editor in film, including the 2019 project And There Will Be a Daughter.

His students have achieved major successes in prestigious Russian and international competitions, winning top prizes and distinctions in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Astana, France, and Spain. Their performances have taken place in major venues such as the halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Saint Petersburg State Academic Capella, the Salle Cortot in Paris, the Bolshoi Theatre, and other leading concert spaces, and they have performed with prominent orchestras in Russia, Spain, Kazakhstan, and elsewhere.