# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sergei-istomin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:07:57.218Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sergei-istomin"
name: "Sergei Istomin"
slug: "sergei-istomin"
description: "Sergei Istomin is a cellist and a viola da gamba player. He began his violoncello studies at the age of six at the Gnessin School for gifted children in Moscow, Russia, where he obtained his bachelor's degree. He completed his master's degree at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of Valentin Feigin and then later his post-graduate studies with Catharina Meints Caldwell at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and August Wenzinger at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute (BPI). In 2018 he received his Doctor of Arts (Music) degree at the Ghent University, Belgium. His doctoral thesis \"Variations on a Rococo theme, Op.33: Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Fitzenhagen: a creative collaboration. Moscow and Saint Petersburg violoncello schools in the light of European traditions: a historical and textological clarification\" is in the field of historically informed performance practice and musicology."
tagline: "Cellist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sergei_Istomin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.96
  momentum:             5.816326530612245
  historical:           7.00558
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/834463"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%81_%D9%83%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%82_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7)"
    title: "سيرجى استومين (عازف كمنجه الساق من روسيا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Istomin"
    title: "Sergei Istomin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Istomin"
    title: "Sergei Istomin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergue%C3%AF_Istomin"
    title: "Sergueï Istomin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_(%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82)"
    title: "Истомин, Сергей (музыкант)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%AC%9D%E7%88%BE%E8%93%8B%C2%B7%E4%BC%8A%E6%96%AF%E6%89%98%E6%98%8E_(%E9%9F%B3%E6%A8%82%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "謝爾蓋·伊斯托明 (音樂家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a42d3946-26ad-4f9f-a74f-3c95770f8791"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1334958"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump