conductor
Sergej Bolkhovets
Sergej Bolkhovets is an ascending Swedish conductor with an already extensive international career as a violinist playing as a regular guest with a.o. Berliner Philharmoniker. He held the position of Assistant Conductor at the Gothenburg Opera during the 20/21 and 21/22 seasons, following his tenure as Assistant Conductor at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in 19/20.

This 22/23 season, Bolkhovets celebrates his debut with both the Luzern Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Royal Opera House in a concert production. He returns to the Swedish Chamber Orchestra for two productions, after having debuted last season with them and being immediately reinvited for several concert programmes. Furthermore, he acts as assistant conductor at the Bayerische Staatsoper for a new production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas / Schönberg’s Erwartung.
During his time as Assistant Conductor at the Gothenburg Opera, Bolkhovets conducted performances of Donizetti’s Viva la Mamma and worked on productions of a.o. Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Puccini’s Tosca and La Bohème, Wagner’s Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, Verdi’s Rigoletto, Gösta Nyström’s Herr Arnes Penningar and Kander’s Cabaret.
Highlights from recent seasons include engagements with the Bamberger Symphoniker, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, Manchester Camerata and BBC Philharmonic. He has also collaborated 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 furthermore worked repeatedly with numerous other Swedish orchestras, such as the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Norrlandsoperan, Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Västerås Sinfonietta and Dalasinfoniettan, as well as in the UK with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Opera, London Sinfonietta and Red Note Ensemble.
As a Conducting Fellow at the Verbier Festival in 2018, he worked a.o. with Christoph Eschenbach, Gianandrea Noseda and Alain Altinoglu. He has participated in numerous conducting masterclasses with a.o. Paavo Järvi.
Bolkhovets graduated from the Junior Fellowship in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2018, as well as the Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2020 with Garry Walker as his main mentor. He also 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.
As a violinist, Bolkhovets started playing in the Berliner Philharmoniker even prior to graduating from the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin, where he studied with Ulf Wallin and Tabea Zimmermann. Additionally, he graduated with a soloist diploma from 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. As an orchestra musician, Bolkhovets has played in numerous renowned orchestras such as a.o. Berlin Philharmonic, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Deutsche Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and has also performed as guest concertmaster at a.o. Royal Swedish Opera, Frankfurter Oper- und Museumsorchester, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
“I have known Sergej for many years, first as a violinist playing with me in the Berlin Philharmonic and as my conducting student at the Järvi Academy, where he demonstrated a very rapid and impressive development. His engaging and pleasant character make him very easy to engage with. It has been my pleasure to see his growth as a conductor and I strongly believe he has all the necessary tools to succeed at the highest international level.”
“Sergej is an absolutely outstanding musician and conductor, with an honest and pleasant approach to music making. I’ve known him for quite a few years, and he was an excellent Assistant to me. He is an absolutely first rate human being, with a pleasant yet authoritative manner in front of an orchestra.”
conductor
Sergej Bolkhovets

Sergej Bolkhovets is an ascending Swedish conductor with an already extensive international career as a violinist playing as a regular guest with a.o. Berliner Philharmoniker. He held the position of Assistant Conductor at the Gothenburg Opera during the 20/21 and 21/22 seasons, following his tenure as Assistant Conductor at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in 19/20.
This 22/23 season, Bolkhovets celebrates his debut with both the Luzern Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Royal Opera House in a concert production. He also debuts with a new production of Bartók´s Bluebeard´s castle in combination with a world premiere from Malin Bång at the Folksoperan in Stockholm. Bolkhovets returns to the Swedish Chamber Orchestra for two productions, after having debuted last season with them and being immediately reinvited for several concert programmes. Furthermore, he acts as assistant conductor at the Bayerische Staatsoper for a new production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas / Schönberg’s Erwartung.
During his time as Assistant Conductor at the Gothenburg Opera, Bolkhovets conducted performances of Donizetti’s Viva la Mamma and worked on productions of a.o. Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Puccini’s Tosca and La Bohème, Wagner’s Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, Verdi’s Rigoletto, Gösta Nyström’s Herr Arnes Penningar and Kander’s Cabaret.
Highlights from recent seasons include engagements with the Bamberger Symphoniker, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, Manchester Camerata and BBC Philharmonic. He has also collaborated 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 furthermore worked repeatedly with numerous other Swedish orchestras, such as the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Norrlandsoperan, Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Västerås Sinfonietta and Dalasinfoniettan, as well as in the UK with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Opera, London Sinfonietta and Red Note Ensemble.
As a Conducting Fellow at the Verbier Festival in 2018, he worked a.o. with Christoph Eschenbach, Gianandrea Noseda and Alain Altinoglu. He has participated in numerous conducting masterclasses with a.o. Paavo Järvi.
Bolkhovets graduated from the Junior Fellowship in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2018, as well as the Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2020 with Garry Walker as his main mentor. He also 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.
As a violinist, Bolkhovets started playing in the Berliner Philharmoniker even prior to graduating from the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin, where he studied with Ulf Wallin and Tabea Zimmermann. Additionally, he graduated with a soloist diploma from 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. As an orchestra musician, Bolkhovets has played in numerous renowned orchestras such as a.o. Berlin Philharmonic, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Deutsche Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and has also performed as guest concertmaster at a.o. Royal Swedish Opera, Frankfurter Oper- und Museumsorchester, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
“I have known Sergej for many years, first as a violinist playing with me in the Berlin Philharmonic and as my conducting student at the Järvi Academy, where he demonstrated a very rapid and impressive development. His engaging and pleasant character make him very easy to engage with. It has been my pleasure to see his growth as a conductor and I strongly believe he has all the necessary tools to succeed at the highest international level.”
“Sergej is an absolutely outstanding musician and conductor, with an honest and pleasant approach to music making. I’ve known him for quite a few years, and he was an excellent Assistant to me. He is an absolutely first rate human being, with a pleasant yet authoritative manner in front of an orchestra.”