Serge Khrichenko One Man Band

Serge Khrichenko is one of the most accomplished and innovative guitarists performing today. He is the winner of the International Music Competition EUTERPE in Italy in May 2015.

A graduate of the prestigious Rimsky Korsakov Music College in St. Petersburg, Russia, Mr. Khrichenko started his career as a guitarist and then worked as a professional composer and performer with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic for more than 10 years. He is now continuing his experiments in classical, jazz and rock music in the USA.  

Mr. Khrichenko has performed with numerous musicians in addition to his solo appearances in Russia, Europe, and the USA (NY, Philadelphia (PA), Denver (CO),  Miami (FL), Portland  (OR), Charlotte (NC) and Washington DC). His performances include concerts at the Russian Embassy,  Russian Cultural Center, French Embassy,  Austrian Embassy, the Strathmore Mansion, Kennedy Center, Couture Fashion Week in New-York, Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC, International Musical Festival “Hot Sand” in Puerto-Rico” as well as local and international jazz fests.

 In 2004 Mr. Khrichenko won the most popular guitar competition in America, “GuitarMageddon” (Maryland area). In 2009 and 2010 Serge Khrichenko performed his own compositions with the State Philharmonic in Russia to widespread acclaim, and in May 2012 he was awarded the Grand Prize for the Best Performance at the International Guitar World Festival in Kaluga, Russia.

Mr. Khrichenko has extensive experience composing for chamber orchestras, jazz-rock bands and fashion shows. His compositions Tango Mephisto and Raising Buddha were finalists in the instrumental category of the U.K. International Songwriting Contest 2007 and his composition Dangerous Journey was listed in the “Top 10 on Earth” for 2007 in the jazz-fusion category.