Andrey was born in 1987. He graduated from a music lyceum in 2005. He entered the M.I. Glinka Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory ( class of senior lecturer, laureate of the All-Union competition G. Shamin). He was transferred to the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory (class of professor Kirill Sokolov).
Laureate of competitions:
2001,2004: 3th degree diploma in the 3th and 4th city competition “I am a composer” in Ryazan,
2003,2005: 3rd and 1st Prize diploma in the Russian Wind and Percussion Competition (Vladimir).
2006: A 3rd Prize at the 10th International contest of performing artists for wind and percussion (Togliatti) .