The Mariupol native is a graduate of the Mariupol Music School in Ukraine and the Music College of the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia. Mr. Kraevsky earned his Diploma with Distinction from the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory of Music in St. Petersburg and his Artist Diploma from Duquesne University. As a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician he has won several national music competitions in Russia and Ukraine and was a multiple winner of the Pittsburgh Concert Society Auditions.

  His artistry, combined with an innate musical sensitivity to others, has made Mr. Kraevsky a much sought after chamber musician and accompanist. Since arriving in the United States in 1993, Mr. Kraevsky has continued to perform extensively throughout Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Spain as well as in the United States. In 1998 he recorded chamber music of Armenian composers in Paris with French violinist Patricia Reibaud for the commercial release on the Dante label (France).

  November 2000 Mr. Kraevsky founded a new recording label, "Minstrel" and started a new project of recording works by Alec Rowley, an English composer from the turn of the century. The resulting disc, "Watercolours" was released in April 2001. In the year 2002, the music of another English composer, C. Armstrong Gibbs, was the focus of the recording and the disc was called "The Three Graces". Both projects were world premieres and were well received by critics and listeners. The year 2003 project "Fantasie" was dedicated to the chamber music of Frank Bridge. All of his world premier CD's are on the shelves of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. .