Sergey Osipenko is a Russian pianist and teacher, and a professor at the Sergei Rachmaninoff Rostov State Conservatory. He graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where his teachers included professors Lev Oborin and Mikhail Voskresensky. He completed postgraduate study in Voskresensky’s class. His qualifications are concert performer, teacher, and accompanist.
Since September 16, 1995, Osipenko has been a professor in the conservatory’s special piano department. He teaches piano, pedagogical practice, and a special-instrument course. More than 20 of his students have won awards at over 50 music competitions, including first prizes and Grand Prix awards at competitions named for Queen Elisabeth, Ferruccio Busoni, Artur Schnabel, Vladimir Horowitz, Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Aram Khachaturian.
Osipenko gives master classes and concerts with his students in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and has toured Ukraine, Finland, Germany, Israel, and Kazakhstan. His students include pianist Anna Vinnitskaya, who began studying with him at age 11 at the lyceum attached to the Rostov Conservatory and later continued in his conservatory class. Other students include Sonya Bugayan, who won first prize at an international competition in Volgograd; Alexander Yakovlev, who won second prize at the Vladimir Horowitz Competition in Kyiv; Alexey Khevelev, who won second prize at a competition in Israel; and musician Dmitry Krivonosov.
In 2009, Osipenko received the title Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. In 2023, he was awarded the Medal for Valiant Labor for the Benefit of the Don Region.