If there is one thing that has helped Mikhail Pochekin to win public admiration, it has been his artistic charisma, so expressive and brilliant. Likewise, both international critics and many of the world's best orchestras have recognized his musical mastery. In recent years he has had the privilege of performing with the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Russian National Orchestra, Mariinsky Theater Symphony, Slovak Philharmonic, State symphony orchestra of Russia “Evgeny Svetlanov” or Lithuanian National Orchestra, among others. Mikhail performs in many countries around the world. For him, music is a universal language with which to communicate with very different people. In recent seasons, it has been enthusiastically welcomed at festivals and reference venues such as the “Gasteig” Cultural Center in Munich, the National Music Auditorium in Madrid, the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Schloss Elmau in Bavaria, the column hall of the Ukrainian National Philharmonic, the Kronberg Academy Festival, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg and The Concordia International Festival of Contemporary Music, named after the composer Sofia Gubaidulina. For many years, Mikhail has collaborated with the Live Music Now Foundation in order to bring music closer to people who cannot go to the concert hall on their own.

Recently, Mikhail has collaborated, among others, with directors such as Vasily Sinaisky, Heinz Holliger, Daniel Raiskin, Yuri Simonov, Kevin Griffiths, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Dmitry Matvienko, Mei-Ann Chen, Gavriel Heine and Valentin Uryupin.

In 2019, the German label Solo Musica released the album 6 Sonatas & Partitas BWV 1001-1006 for solo violin by J.S. Bach. An album that was acclaimed by international critics. Strad magazine praised this recording as “an exceptional achievement”. A few years later, the SüdDeutsche Zeitung proclaimed him, after performing the entire cycle in a single afternoon at the Munich Residence, as a “fabulous Bach interpreter”.

As part of his artistic activity, performances together with his brother Ivan Pochekin play a very important role. In 2018, on the label “Melodiya”, both brothers released their first joint album entitled The Unity of Opposites (The Unity of Opposites) which includes both works for two violins by Prokofiev and Glière and for violin and viola by Mozart and Michael Haydn.

In 2021, the Hänssler Classic label released Mikhail's recording of Violin Concerto No. 5 And the Concertant Symphony for violin and viola by W.A. Mozart together with his brother Ivan accompanied by the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. A second collaboration quickly followed, in 2022, with the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen led by Sebastian Tewinkel. This time they recorded the Concerto in E Minor by Mendelssohn and the Violin Concerto No. 2 by Bruch.

Mikhail has a great love for chamber music. For him, this is an absolutely special type of conversation between people, bringing together a variety of musicians on stage whose result is lively communication, an in-depth study of the works and a common desire to convey the composer's intention to the public. Among the artists with whom Mikhail has shared the stage are WenXiao Zheng, Aylen Pritchin, Wen-Sinn Yang, Kenny Broberg, Jano Lisboa, Gabriel Schwabe, Boris Andrianov, Simon Tetzlaff, Kiveli Doerken, Peter Laul, Yuri Favorin, in addition to his mentors Rainer Schmidt and Ana Chumachenko. Mikhail is co-founder and artistic director of the Landshut Kammermusikfestival in Bavaria, organized by Freunde der Musik e.V. Landshut and which was held for the first time in August 2023 and is held annually.

Mikhail was born into a very musical family: his father is a luthier; his mother, a violin teacher; and his older brother, a violinist and violist. So the sound of the violin has accompanied Mikhail since his earliest childhood. At the age of five, she received her first class under the supervision of Professor G.S. Turchaninova. Years later, he was tutored by teachers Viktor Tretiakov, Rainer Schmidt and Ana Chumachenco, whose teachings changed him forever as a person and as a musician. In addition, master classes and lessons with Christian Tetzlaff had a great influence on his artistic training.

Already in his youth, Mikhail's artistic talent was recognized with prizes from prestigious international competitions, including the Pablo Sarasate in Pamplona, the Rodolfo Lipizer Prize in Italy and the Jascha Heifetz Competition in Lithuania. In 2008, Mikhail received the Pablo Sarasate National Violin Award in Madrid, after which the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid invited him to give a recital with Antonio Stradivarius' famous violin “Ex Boissier”, which belonged to the great Spanish violinist.

Mikhail, apart from his career as a violinist and chamber musician, has a great passion for teaching and develops his pedagogical activity holding master classes and workshops for young performers from all over the world, organized by promoters from Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Austria (Internationale Sommerakademie, Universität Mozarteum Salzburg), etc.

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