Other past con­duct­ing engage­ments include the 10/10Ensemble, Jenaer Philharmoniker, Västerås Sinfonietta, Norrbotten “NEO” and “KammarensembleN”. He also act­ed as Assistant Conductor at the State Opera of Plovdiv for pro­duc­tions of Verdi’s Falstaff and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, where he also made his Bulgarian debut with a sym­phon­ic pro­gramme. At the Daegu International Music Festival 2018 in Korea he served as Assistant Conductor for Verdi´s Don Carlo. He assist­ed on and con­duct­ed per­for­mances of Händel’s Theodora and Massenet’s Cendrillon at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Sergej Bolkhovets has con­duct­ed con­certs with soloists such as Norbert Anger (Principal Cellist of the Dresden Staatskapelle) in the Schumann Cello Concerto, Vashti Hunter (soloist and mem­ber of Trio Gaspard) in Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations, Hannah Roberts (Solo Cellist of the Manchester Camerata) in the Elgar Cello Concerto, and Avan Yu (win­ner of the Silver Medal at Santander International Piano Competition and Gold Medal at the Sydney International Piano Competition) in Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

Sergej Bolkhovets was a Conducting Fellow at the Verbier Festival 2018 assist­ing Valery Gergiev, Christoph Eschenbach, Gianandrea Noseda, Alain Altinoglu. Furthermore, he has assist­ed lead­ing con­duc­tors at the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester (Juanjo Mena, Nicholas Collon), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (Vasily Petrenko, Cristian Mandeal), as well as at the Hallé Orchestra (Sir Mark Elder).In addi­tion to his Conducting Fellowships in Great Britain with Garry Walker as his main men­tor, 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 Prof. B. Tommy Andersson. He has also par­tic­i­pat­ed in mas­ter­class­es with Paavo and Neemi Järvi, Sir Mark Elder, Leonid Grin, Peter Rundel, Jac van Steen, Timothy Reynish and Kenneth Kiesler.

In his career as a vio­lin­ist, Sergej Bolkhovets start­ed play­ing in the Berlin Philharmonic already at the age of 22, pri­or his grad­u­a­tion from the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, where he stud­ied with Prof. Ulf Wallin and in the post-graduate pro­gramme with Prof. Tabea Zimmermann. He also stud­ied vio­lin at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in a post-graduate soloist diplo­ma pro­gramme with Joakim Svenheden.

He has played in a total of 23 pres­ti­gious orches­tras, such as Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Frankfurter Oper- und Museumsorchester, and has been a guest con­cert­mas­ter in approx­i­mate­ly half of them, includ­ing at the Royal Opera Stockholm, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

As a ped­a­gogue, Sergej is a ded­i­cat­ed vio­lin teacher. He has served as fac­ul­ty mem­ber at the Nordic Music High School in Stockholm, and also at Stockholm’s Royal College of Music. Furthermore, he has giv­en vio­lin mas­ter­class­es in Benasque, Spain, at the Boston Conservatory, USA, in Tallinn, Estonia and Stockholm. He is also teach­ing con­duct­ing and cham­ber music at the Junior RNCM in Manchester.