Biography
Sergey Nikitin graduated from Physics Department of Moscow State University in 1968. After completing postgraduate studies in department of Biophysics at Moscow State University, he worked as a researcher in Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow (1971-1980). In 1980-1987 he was a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics in Pushchino and received Ph.D. in Physics in 1983.
Sergey Nikitin wrote music to his first song, En route (lyrics by Iosif Utkin) in 1962. In 1963 he founded an all-male quartet of the Department of Physics in Moscow State University, together with Sergey Smirnov, Boris Geller, Aleksei Monakhov, and later Vadim Khait.
In 1968-1977, he appeared with numerous concerts, together with other members of his quintet, including his wife Tatyana Nikitina, Carmen Santacreu, Vladimir Ulin, and Nikolai Turkin. In 1987-1995 he was Musical Director at the Oleg Tabakov Studio-Theater in Moscow, and became a full-time singer and composer since 1995.
Nikitin has two older sisters, and one adult son, Alexander, who sometimes performs in concerts with Sergey and Tatiana.
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