Rodion Tolmachev (bassoon)
Bassoon
• Prizewinner at the All-Russian Woodwind Players Competition
(St Petersburg, 2000, Ist Prize) • Prizewinner at the ARD
Quintet Competition (Мunich, Germany, 2001, 3rd Prize) •
Prizewinner at the JWPC International Competition (Тоkyо, Japan, 2007, Grand
Prix) • Prizewinner at the Fernand Gillet-Hugo Fox International Bassoon
Competition (Provo, Utah, USA, 2008, Ist Prize)
Born in 1978 in Andizhan (Uzbek SSR). From 1993 — 1996 studied at the
Andizhan School of Music in two specialities: piano and bassoon. From 1996
to1997 studied at the Tashkent State Conservatoire, specialising in the bassoon,
then from 1998 to 2003 at the St. Petersburg State Conservatoire (class of
Honoured Artist of Russia, Professor Kirill Sokolov). From 2004 to 2006 studied
at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater (Hannover, Germany) in the classes of
Professors Dag Jensen and Ole Kristian Dahl.
Since 2008 he has been a postgraduate and an assistant at the St. Petersburg
Conservatoire (class of Honoured Artist of Russia, Professor Kirill Sokolov).
Since 2003 he has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra.
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