Sergueï Markarov, pianist and UNESCO Artist for Peace, was born in Baku in 1953. He studied in St Petersburg and Moscow. He won the first prize for piano, teaching, chamber music
At the opening of the Russian Year in Japan, Sergueï Markarov with his friend conductor Valery Gergiev, director of St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra,
Sergueï Markarov plays Robert Schumann’s famous introduction to his Children’s Scenes, From Foreign Lands and People, a mind-opener to all what’s different and may bring us broader perspectives, as well
The Director-General has appointed Mr Serguei Markarov, a distinguished Russian pianist, professor of the Academy of Moscow P. I. Chaikovski and l’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris as UNESCO Artist
