Artyom Dervoed was born in 1981 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. He started his musical education at the age of six playing a seven string guitar at first, under the tuition of S. Annikov. He later switched to a normal six string guitar, studying with E. Svyatozarova in Moscow. In the early 90s, Artyom continued his studies at a music school in Moscow in the class of L. Reznik. He also graduated from a private music school "Young Talents", Music College named by Alfred Shnitke and Russian Gnesin’s Academy of Music in Professor Nickolay Komolyatov’s class. He has attended master classes of famous guitarists such as Remi Boucher, Roland Dyens, Fabio Zanon, Alexei Zimakov and others, and in 2005 he fi...