Sergej Bolkhovets is Swedish conductor with an already extensive international career as a violinist playing as a regular guest with a.o. Berliner Philharmoniker. 2019-2020 Mr. Bolkhovets held the position of Assistant Conductor at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and since the 2020–21 season he holds the same position at the Gothenburg Opera.
Season 2021/2022 at the Gothenburg Opera he assists on Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Puccini’s Tosca, Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, Verdi’s Rigoletto and Gösta Nystroem’s Herr Arnes penningar, and conducts performances of Donizetti’s Viva la Mamma as well as an Operetta-Gala concert.
Additionally, Sergej debuts with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and returns for two additional productions with them during this season, as well as in season 2022-23.
Mr. Bolkhovets has also assisted on Puccini’s Tosca and La Bohème, Wagner’s Siegfried and Kander’s Cabaret. Mr. Bolkhovets also celebrated his debut with the Bamberger Symphoniker and returned to Dalasinfoniettan in Sweden for a symphonic concert.
Highlights from recent seasons include his debuts with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, Manchester Camerata and BBC Philharmonic, as well as with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich during a masterclass with David Zinman, as well as with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra as part of a conducting workshop. He has also worked repeatedly with leading Swedish orchestras such as the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Norrlandsoperan, Gävle Symphony Orchestra and Västerås Sinfonietta, as well as in the UK with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Opera, Hallé Orchestra and Red Note Ensemble.
In 2018 Mr. Bolkhovets was a Conducting Fellow at the Verbier Festival, and also worked as an Assistant Conductor at the Daegu International Music Festival in South Korea in Verdi´s Don Carlo. In addition to his Conducting Fellowships studying with his mentor Garry Walker, Mr. Bolkhovets studied conducting at the University of Music “Franz Liszt” Weimar with Markus Frank and at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with B Tommy Andersson. He also participated in several conducting masterclasses with a.o. Paavo Järvi at the Järvi Academy in Pärnu, Estonia.
As a violinist, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin with Ulf Wallin and Tabea Zimmermann, as well as at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with Joakim Svenheden. As a soloist he has performed 20 violin concertos with a.o. Stockholm Royal Philharmonic, and has played in a total of 23 orchestras, including Berlin Philharmonic, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Deutsche Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and has been a guest concertmaster in approximately half of them, including at the Royal Opera Stockholm, Frankfurter Oper- und Museumsorchester, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.