Konstantin Soukhovetski is 2019 Innovation Award Winner from Music Academy Of The West. This season, Konstantin premiered SPARKS, a composition created for him by award-winning composer, Polina Nazaykinskaya, and has appeared with Musimelange and the musicians of the New World Symphony in Miami, FL. Konstantin also gave world premiere and recorded a new ballet of Ms. Nazaykinskaya - “Nostalgia” choreographed by Pascal Rioult of Rioult Dance at the Joyce Theater in New York City. Konstantin has appeared as an actor on both theater stage and film and has been an artist in residence at Pianofest in The Hamptons since 2011. Konstantin is a recipient of over 15 awards and is an alumnus of The Juilliard School where he has earned his BM, MM, and AD degrees under the tutelage of Jerome Lowenthal. Born in Moscow to a family of artists he studied at the Moscow Central Special Music School, under the auspices of the Moscow State Conservatory, with Anatoly Ryabov.