Timur Sergeyenia
The concert career of Timur Sergeyenia has been going on for more than 45 years. He performed in Belgium, Germany, England, France, Monaco, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Austria, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, the Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Uzbekistan.
In 2020, the French Academic Society "ARTS-SCIENCES-LETTRES"
honoured Timur Sergeyenia with its highest award, the Platinum Medal for his distinguished artistic career.
This award has been given annually since 1915. The first laureate was Queen Elizabeth of Belgium. Louis Lumière, Albert Schweitzer, Jacques Yves Cousteau, Olivier Messiaen, Tibor Varga, Yehudi Menuhin, Jean Cocteau, as well as many other scientists, artists, political and public figures are among the award laureates. More info.
Timur Sergeyenya was born in the USSR in Minsk in 1969. His musical education began when he was three years old at a special school for talented children by the National Conservatory Minsk.
At the age of four he gave his first public concert with his own compositions. At seven he performed for the first time as a soloist with the National Chamber Orchestra of Belarus (1977).
Timur was known as a young pianist and composer. He was the author of numerous piano works.
He wrote in 1978 “Khatyn Ballad” which attracted the attention of press and made him famous in the USSR, as a child prodigy.
In 1979 Timur was a representative of the Soviet Union at the first World Children’s Assembly “Banner of Peace” (Sofia, Bulgaria), where he was recognized as the most talented participant.
During this period, numerous film and television studios of the USSR, Bulgaria, East Germany, the Czech Republic have made about Timur documentary films, television and radio shows.
In 1980, the Japanese broadcaster TBS invites Timur as a representative of the USSR in the international project”Children of the World”.
The film about Timur Sergeyenia “Young Composer” has been shown in many countries around the world. In 1982 the film received the Grand Prix at the Film Festival in Milan.
Timur Sergeyenia was one of the last to receive a musical education from the outstanding musicians who carried on the most important lines of the traditions of the old Russian piano school: