Sergey Grokhotov is a Soviet and Russian pianist, musicologist, and pedagogue, born on 7 September 1958 in Moscow. He is a Candidate of Art History (1990) and a professor of the Department of History and Theory of Performing Art at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He is also known as the author and translator of a large number of scholarly and educational publications.
He was born in Moscow and in 1977 graduated from the Gnessin Moscow Special Secondary Music School. In the same year he entered the Gnessin State Musical-Pedagogical Institute, from which he graduated in 1982 in the piano faculty, having studied in the class of E. Ya. Liberman. From 1988 to 1990 he was attached to the Department of History and Theory of Performing Art at the Moscow Conservatory as a dissertation researcher.
In 1990 he received the degree of Candidate of Art History. His dissertation was devoted to Johann Nepomuk Hummel and piano art in the first third of the 19th century. The article notes that the defense took place at the Moscow Conservatory, although other sources reportedly name the Leningrad Conservatory.
Since 1989 he has taught piano and music history at Moscow Pedagogical State University, serving as an associate professor in the Department of Aesthetic Education of Preschool Children at the Faculty of Preschool Pedagogy and Psychology. In 1992 he also graduated from Moscow Linguistic University, where he studied in the evening faculty for advanced language training of graduate specialists.
Since 1995 Grokhotov has worked at the Department of History and Theory of Performing Art of the Moscow Conservatory, where he teaches the history of piano art and supervises postgraduate work; as of May 2022 he held the position of professor there. He also taught the history of piano art at the State Specialized Institute of Arts from 1996 to 2006, at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music from 1997 onward, at the Gnessin Moscow Special Secondary Music School from 1999 to 2004, and at the Academy of Slavic Culture from 2002 onward.
He has served as a jury member of the A. N. Scriabin International Competition for Young Musicologists in 2002 and 2005. Grokhotov is the author of more than 80 publications, including scholarly, methodological, and music-educational works, as well as articles for reference books, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. He has also worked as a translator of books about music and is a scholarly consultant for the Great Russian Encyclopedia. His professional interests include the history and theory of performing art and issues of historically informed performance.
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