Sergei Polyanichko

International Competition prize-winner (2003).

Studied at the Specialised Middle School of Music of the St Petersburg State Conservatoire (class of Professor Buyanovsky). Graduated from the St Petersburg State Conservatoire in French horn (class of Professor Glukhov) as well as from the St Petersburg State Theatre Institute and the St Petersburg School of Television. From 1999 – 2002 was a TV presenter. Took elective classes at the faculty of opera and symphony conducting of the St Petersburg State Conservatoire (class of Professor Musin), and in 2007 undertook an internship there (class of Professor Chernushenko). Took part in master classes of Professors Alexander Polyanichko (St Petersburg, 2003), Vladimir Ponkin (Moscow, 2006), Jorma Panula (St Petersburg, 2006), Jan Latham-Kenig (St Petersburg, 2007).

As a French horn player, he has worked with many orchestras, among them the orchestra of the St Petersburg State Conservatoire, the St Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra, the St Petersburg Radio and Television orchestra, the Russian National Student Orchestra, the orchestra of the Academic Capella of St Petersburg and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra. He is a guest leader of the French horns of the Heinola Sinfonietta in Finalnd, the Nordic Symphony in Estonia and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Santiago (Chile).

He appears with various ensembles as well as in recital programmes.

Has frequently toured to Finland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Israel, the UK, Chile, China and the USA.

In 2006 Sergei Polyanichko was Assistant Conductor of productions of the operas Boris Godunov (Opéra de Monte-Carlo) and Mazepa (Welsh National Opera), and in 2008 he worked on Eugene Onegin (Welsh National Opera).

In 2006 he established and directed the "Nevsky" small symphony, and later the Russian Horn Orchestra.

Since 2007 he has been director of the Centre of Horn and Wind Music.