Bouriakov was born in
Simferopol,
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now
Crimea). He started his musical career in a choir in Simferopol, but soon decided to switch to woodwind instruments, settling on the flute after originally intending to play the oboe. From the age of 10 he studied flute at the Moscow Central Special Music School. In 2000 he moved to London to study at the
Royal Academy of Music with
William Bennett. He explained some of the motivations for joining that orchestra in a 2017 interview: There is a 1996 documentary by
Nikolay Milovidov about Denis Buryakov,
Finding of color. Denis Bouriakov. == References ==