I was born on 04.02.1966 in Tschelyabinsk, in the Ural region of Russia, and started to play the violin at the age of 8. In 1986 I graduated and finished a Music Colledge in Ural. In 1988 I entered the Ural State Conservatoire in Yekaterinburg as a violinist.  

In 2003 I studied a bowmaking at G.Walbrodt workshop.

In 2006 I moved from Yekaterinburg for Moscow and set up my own workshop. 

In 2007 I took part in the Tschaikovsky competition, and won a silver medal. 

In 2010 I got a Certificate of Merit of the “Violin Society of America” competition.

In 2014 I was awarded following awards:

    - Mittenwald Competition: Bronze Medal Violin Bow

    - Grand Prix at the Violoncelle en Seine Competition in Paris :

      3 Coup de Coeur (J.F. Raffin, Josef P. Gabriel and Tim Baker)  & Coup de Coeur Public

I participated at many international exhibitions as:

EKHO in Brussels

Salon du Violon in Paris

Darling Publications in Frankfurt, Cremona, etc.