Sergei Nakariakov

Sometimes regarded as a successor to Maurice André, trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov has been making recordings since his teenage years. He has often played concertos transcribed for the trumpet from originals for other instruments. Nakariakov was born on May 10, 1977, in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) in central Russia, then part of the Soviet Union. He began his musical studies at age six with piano lessons but switched to the trumpet after suffering an injury. His teacher was his father, trumpeter Mikhail Nakariakov, who liked to make transcriptions of non-trumpet works for his in...