Sergei Nakariakov
Sometimes regarded as a successor to Maurice André, trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov has been making recordings since his teenage years. He has often played concertos transcribed for the trumpet from originals for other instruments.
Nakariakov was born on May 10, 1977, in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) in central Russia, then part of the Soviet Union. He began his musical studies at age six with piano lessons but switched to the trumpet after suffering an injury. His teacher was his father, trumpeter Mikhail Nakariakov, who liked to make transcriptions of non-trumpet works for his instruments. The son would later play some of the father's transcriptions. A sister, Vera Nakariakova, became a pianist, and Sergei has appeared with her in chamber music recitals. Nakariakov's development was rapid, and he may be termed a child prodigy. He won an award at 11 in an adult competition, and he received critical raves two years later for an appearance at Finland's Korsholm Festival. Nakariakov issued his first album, featuring music by Ravel, Gershwin, Bernstein, and Glazunov, in 1992, when he was 15, on the Teldec label. He later took Israeli citizenship, and he resides mostly in Paris.
Nakariakov plays the entire standard trumpet repertory, transcriptions, and new compositions or adaptations by such composers as Peter Ruzicka, Uri Brener, Enjott Schneider, and Jörg Widmann. He has appeared with top-flight conductors, including Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Christoph Eschenbach, and Jiří Bělohlávek, and his chamber music collaborators include pianist Martha Argerich, cellist Mischa Maisky, and flutist Emmanuel Pahud. Nakariakov recorded several albums for Teldec, moving to Warner Classics in 2003 for an album of trumpet concertos by Haydn, Hummel, Tomasi, and Jolivet. In 2004, Nakariakov became the subject of a film, No More Wunderkind. His recital album Widmung appeared on Warner Classics in 2012. In 2022, he was one of several musicians heard on the album Evgueni Galperine: Theory of Becoming on the ECM New Series label.
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