Since completing his studies the Royal Academy of Music in London under tutelage of Malcolm Martineau, Sergey has worked extensively for City of Birmingham Opera, English Touring Opera, Garsington Opera, Opera Holland Park and Grange Park Opera. As a recitalist he performed in Leeds Lieder+ Festival, Hampstead and Highgate Festival, Beaminster Festival and in other prominent venues in the UK alongside Joan Rodgers, Justina Gringyte, Katherine Broderick, Nelly Miricioiu, Sergey Leiferkus and others.
Sergey has been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London and joined the coaching staff at Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at ROH, Covent Garden. After working as a chef repetiteur on the Royal Opera House's production of Eugene Onegin he joined the music staff team for the productions of Lucia di Lammermoor, Nabucco, The Nose, Les Contes d'Hoffmann and Der Rosenkavalier.
During the past seasons Sergey participated in preparation of Khovanschina at Welsh National Opera, performed in Oxford Lieder Festival with Katherine Broderick, returned to the ROH for Lucia di Lammermoor and worked on Der Rosenkavalier at Glyndebourne Festival. Over the summer Sergey joined music staff at Mediterranean Opera Studio in Sicily, Oxenfoord International Summer School in Scotland, Scuola del Belcanto in Urbania, Italy and The New Generation Festival in Florence.
Maintaining various coaching commitments at RAM, RCM and JPYAP throughout the year, Sergey has traveled to La Monnaie in Brussels for Rimsky-Korsakov's Tale of Tsar Saltan, MOSF in Sicily, returned to Florence for the 2019 New Generation Festival and to Glyndebourne in 2021 for Il Turco in Italia. Most recently Sergey was appointed Vocal Consultant for English Touring Opera's Music Advisory Board and worked on Birmingham Opera's production of RhineGold, La Boheme for English Touring Opera, Fiery Angel at Teatro Real, Madrid. Le Nozze di Figaro at Glyndebourne andThe Queen of Spades at La Monnaie in Brussels.
Most recently he worked as the assistant conductor for Evelino Pidó on La Boheme at the ROH, conducted a nationwide tour of Giulio Cesare for English Touring Opera, assisted Paul Daniel on The Queen of Spades at Grange Festival, conducted offstage at the ROH on Cavaleria Rusticana & Pagliacci.
In 2024 Sergey will join Paula Sides to perform Poulenc's La Voix Humaine at VOCES8 Centre in London coinciding with the release of the new CD, will perform with Alice Coote at Wigmore Hall in an all-Russian programme and will return to Glyndebourne for Carmen during summer season.
