Born in Moscow in 1978, Sergey Koudriakov began his studies at the renowned Gnessin School in Moscow under Valentina Aristova. He signed on at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1995, where he studied in Professor Mikhail Voskerensky’s class. After the diploma in 2000, he participated in a two-year post-diploma course under his longstanding teacher, whose assistant he now is in Moscow. He studied chamber music in Professor Alexander Rudin’s special class. Among Koudriakov’s numerous awards and prizes at international competitions are first prizes at the 2002 Concours de Geneve as well as the Public Prize and the «Coup de Coeur de Breguet»; at the 2004 Gaetano Zinetti chamber music competition in Verona, partnering violist Ilya Hoffman and at the 2006 Concours Géza Anda in Zurich, where he was also awarded the Mozart Prize. Koudriakov has performed in Russia, in numerous European countries as well as in Japan and the United States. He has appeared with well known orchestras, such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra under conductors such as Vladimir Fedoseyev, Philippe Entremont, Franco Trinca, Rolf Gupta and Theodor Guschlbauer. For the 2006/07 season he has concerts planned with the Bremer Philharmonic conducted by Ari Rasilainen, the Berne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eliahu Inbal and the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christian Mandeal. The recital, orchestra and chamber music repertoire of Koudriakov is extensive, ranging from baroque to contemporary music. He has been engaged, or is due to be engaged, at a variety of festivals including: the Festival of Radio France in Montpellier; the Orpheum-Musikfesttage in Zurich; the Lago Maggiore Festival (Italy); the Ruhr Piano Festival; the Moscow Easter Festival; Moscow Autumn; the Lucerne Festival; the Cesky Krumlov Summer Festival; the Montreux Festival and the Festival Nomus in Novi Sad. A sought-after performer in diverse chamber music formations, Koudriakov has played alongside pianist Alexander Ghindin, cellist Denis Shapovalov, violist Ilya Hoffman and violinist Nikolay Sachenko and many other know musicians. He recorded a number of CDs as a soloist, chambrist and with orchestras (Pan Classics, Azzurra Music, Akane).