Boris Brovtsyn (Violin soloist)
Boris Brovtsyn was born in 1977. After graduating from Moscow's Central Music
School in 1994, he entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he studied
with Maya Glezarova. During his time there he became a laureate of international
competitions, such as Georg Kulenkampf (1994, Cologne), Transnet (1996,
Pretoria) and Yehudi Menuhin (1998), before graduating with top honours in
1999.
A prize-winner at the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition, Boris
Brovtsyn has appeared with numerous musical ensembles, among them the Orchestre
Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the
Orchestre National de Lille, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the English
Classical Players chamber orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,
the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the
Sinfonieorchester Basel, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, the Berner
Symphonieorchester, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, the Warsaw Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
and the Utah Symphony Orchestra.
The musician has performed at festivals
including those in Verbier, Lugano and Edinburgh, the Oxford Chamber Music
Festival, the Ryedale Festival (Great Britain), the Genius of the Violin
festival, the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival and the George Enescu Festival
among others. As a soloist, Boris Brovtsyn has worked with such acclaimed
musicians as Sir Neville Marriner, Yuri Bashmet, Gerd Albrecht, Marek Janowski,
Neeme Järvi, Louis Langrée, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Gilbert Varga, Antoni Wit,
Alexander Lazarev, Vassily Sinaisky, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Alain Lombard and Arvo
Volmer to name but a few.
The musician regularly performs in chamber
music concerts with such colleagues as Janine Jansen, Maxim Rysanov, Amichai
Grosz, Boris Andrianov, Anastasia Voltchok, Denis Matsuev and Alexei
Ogrintchouk. In 2001 the violinist was a finalist at the Queen Elisabeth
Competition in Brussels and won the Reuters Award. The following year, he won
the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition. The musician made his UK debut
in 1998 with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Rumon Gamba. He
became a student of David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
(GSMD) in 2000 and since then has been spent most of his time in the UK. In 2004
Boris Brovtsyn won the GSMD’s Gold Medal, its highest award (previous winners
including Jacqueline du Pré, Tasmin Little and Bryn Terfel).
Boris
Brovtsyn was born in 1977. After graduating from the Moscow Central School of
Music in 1994, he entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire where he studied
under Maya Glezarova. He graduated from the conservatoire with distinction in
1999, during his studies there becoming a prize-winner at several international
competitions including the Georg Kulenkampff Competition (1994, Cologne), the
Transnet competition (1996, Pretoria) and the Yehudi Menuhin Competition
(1998).
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