Among the most significant personalities the musician has collaborated with Mstislav Rostropovich is worth specially mentioning. He wrote: “Sergej Krylov is one of the top five contemporary violinists”.
Sergej Krylov has also collaborated with such conductors as Yuri Temirkanov, Valery Gergiev, Nicola Luizotti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dmitry Kitaenko, Mikhail Pletnev, Omer Welber, Andrey Boreiko, Yutaka Sado, Zoltan Kocsis, Dmitry Liss, Vladimir Yurovsky and Yury Bashmet.
Yefim Bronfman, Elina Garanca, Yury Bashmet, Denis Matsuev, Itamar Golan, Alexander Knyazev, Bruno Canino, Misha Maisky, Nobuko Imai, Alexander Buzlov, Lilya Zilberstein, Andrea Bonatta, Gloria Campaner and many outstanding musicians have been his chamber music partners. As the result of collaboration with Sting he recorded DVD “Twin Spirits”, dedicated to Robert Schumann.
Since 2008 Sergej Krylov has combined his solo career with the work of a conductor. He is the Chief Conductor of the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra. As a conductor he has collaborated with such orchestras as the English Chamber Orchestra, the symphony orchestra Regionale Toscana, the chamber orchestra Accademia Orchestra Mozart, the symphony orchestra “Magna Grecia”, the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, the Novosibirsk Academic symphony orchestra and others.
Since 2012 he has been a Professor of the University of Music and Arts in Lugano, Switzerland. (Wikipedia)