Zakhar was born in Kursk in 2008. He studied at Children’s School of Arts No. 9 in Kursk under Elena Shor and subsequently at the G. V. Sviridov Children’s School of Arts No. 1 under Alexander Antipov. He is currently a pupil at the Central Music School – Academy of Performing Arts, where he studies under Associate Professor Natalia Bogdanova.
Prize-winner at Russian national and international competitions:
2026
Third Prize at the 8th All-Russian Competition of Young Musicians “Constellation” (Sirius Educational Centre).
He has taken part in masterclasses given by Tatyana Direktorenko, Nina Makarova, Eldar Gasanov, Denis Chefanov, Tatyana Titova, Svyatoslav Lips, Daniil Kopylov, Alexander Strukov, Denis Burshtein, Alexander Sandler, Ksenia Knorre, Lukas Geniušas, Alexander Gindin and Tatiana Zelikman.
He received a scholarship from the New Names Foundation in 2026 and a named scholarship through the “Class with a Maestro” competition in Moscow in 2025.
He has collaborated with the Belgorod State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (conductor D. Filatov), the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra (conductor I. Rudin), the Voronezh Symphony Orchestra (conductor B. Andrianov), the Gnessin Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra of the Moscow Gnessin Special School of Music (conductor M. Khokhlov), the Moscow Conservatory Concert Symphony Orchestra (conductor A. Levin) and the Lipetsk Symphony Orchestra (conductor K. Barkov).
