Kirill was born in Moscow in 2009 and began his musical education at the A. F. Goedicke Children’s Music School, where he studied under Svetlana Nechaeva. Since 2017, he has been a pupil at the Moscow Gnessin Special School of Music, where he studies under Lyudmila Kruzhkova.
Competition awards:
2025
Diploma recipient at the 7th Svyatoslav Knushevitsky International Cello Competition (Saratov).
2026
First Prize winner at the Grand Moscow Competition for String Instrument Performers (Moscow).
He has taken part in masterclasses given by Alexander Knyazev, Kirill Rodin, Evgeny Rumyantsev, Alexey Naidyonov and others.
He received a scholarship from the New Names Foundation in 2022 and the Moscow Mayor’s Award in Culture and the Arts in 2026.
He has performed with the Orchestra of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (conducted by Alexey Vasilyev), the Zhukovsky Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Sergei Skripka and K. Naumenko), the Schnittke Orchestra (conducted by I. Gromov), the Symphony Orchestra of the Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts (conducted by O. Khudyakov) and the Gnessin Virtuosi (conducted by M. Khokhlov).
He has performed at venues including the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the State Kremlin Palace, the Moscow International House of Music, the A. G. Schnittke Saratov Regional Philharmonic Society and the G. V. Sviridov Kursk Philharmonic.
