Sergej Bolkhovets is a rising Swedish conductor with an already extensive international career as a violinist playing as a regular guest with a.o. Berliner Philharmoniker.
In the season 24/25, he makes his debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra with a.o. Shostakovich´s 1st Symphony and at the State Theatre of Kassel with Janáček´s Katja Kabanova. He also returns to the Gothenburg Opera, the Royal Swedish Opera, and the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. In the previous season, he debuted with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra (where he returned to later during the same season), the Hagen Theatre Orchestra and the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, he
continued his collaborations with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Gävle Symphony Orchestra, the Norrlandsoperan, and the Gothenburg Opera for his own production of Donizetti´s Viva la mamma.
Further highlights of recent seasons include his debuts with the Bavarian State Opera, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, and the Manchester Camerata. He also conducted the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich during a masterclass with David Zinman and worked with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra as part of a conducting workshop. He has collaborated multiple times with further leading Swedish orchestras such as the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, the Folkoperan in Stockholm, and the Dalasinfoniettan, as well as with British ensembles including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Opera, Red Note Ensemble,
and the London Sinfonietta.
He served as Assistant Conductor at the Gothenburg Opera from 2020-2022, following the same role at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra during the 2019–2020 season.
Mr. Bolkhovets was named Conducting Fellow at the Verbier Festival in 2018 and won the "Junior Fellowship in Conducting" at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (2016–2018) and the "Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship" at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2019–2020). He studied orchestral conducting at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and participated in numerous masterclasses with prominent conductors, including Paavo Järvi.
As a violinist, he studied at the "Hanns Eisler" Academy of Music in Berlin under Prof. Ulf Wallin and Prof. Tabea Zimmermann, and his soloist diploma was earned at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm under Joakim Svenheden. As a soloist, he has performed over 20 violin concertos, with a.o. the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Furthermore, he has played in numerous renowned orchestras, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, both of Berlin's Radio Orchestras, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as served as concertmaster in further more, including the Royal Swedish Opera, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Frankfurt Opera and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.