Nikolai Mokhov (Flute)
Prize-winner at the Gartow Stiftung Competition, St Petersburg, 2000.
Nikolai Mokhov was born in St Petersburg. He began to study the flute at the age of nine. He graduated from the Musorgsky School of Music (class of Professor Matveyev) and later the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Professor Vavlina-Mravinskaya).
From 2001–2003 he studied at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe (class of Professor Renate Greiss-Armin). During this period he also studied under Professor Aurиle Nicolet at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana Siena (Italy) and joined the St Petersburg Quintet of Woodwind Instruments together with which he has appeared in Belgium, Finland, Israel, the USA and Germany. In 2001 this ensemble won third prize at the ARD International Competition in Munich.
He has been a soloist with the St Petersburg Chamber Opera Company and the Mariinsky Theatre Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. Nikolai Mokhov has also been leader of the flute section of the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev. Since 2006 the musician has been a soloist and leader of the flute section of the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra.
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