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| Boris Belkin |
| A | EE | sundry |
| Born | |
| Russia | |
| Studies | |
| Moscow Conservatory with Professors Yankeievitz, Glezarova and Andrievsky | |
| Highlights | |
| Prizes | |
| 1973 Soviet Union’s National Competition for Violinists - First Prize | |
| Recordings | |
| Decca, Denon | |
| Short Biography | |
| Boris Belkin began studying the violin at the age of six and made his first public appearance when he was seven with the great conductor Kyrill Kondrashin. He studied first at the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory with Professors Yankeievitz, Glezarova and Andrievsky, very quickly playing as a soloist all over the Soviet Union with its leading national orchestras whilst he was a student, and in 1973 won first prize in the Soviet Union’s National Competition for Violinists. Boris Belkin played in Moscow with Temirkanov and the St Petersburg Philharmonic orchestra at the inaugural 1st Rostropovich Festival in 2011. He emigrated to the west in 1974 and since regularly worked with conductors like Bernstein, Ashkenazy, Mehta, Muti, Ozawa, Dohnányi, Rattle, Fedoseyev, , alongside many others; performing with the world’s leading orchestras including the Boston Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Royal Concertgebouw and the major British Orchestras. Boris Belkin has regularly returned to the Miyazaki Festival since his first appearance in 1997 and he plays chamber music with artists such as Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky and many others. Boris Belkin has featured in several television productions which include a film on Jean Sibelius, with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, with Bernstein and the Orchestra National de France and with Bernard Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Boris Belkin’s first recording, Paganini’s 1st Violin Concerto, was with the Israel Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta and was extremely highly praised. His other discs for Decca include the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius Concertos with The Philharmonia and Ashkenazy or Richard Strauss’s Concerto with Berlin Radio and Ashkenazy. For Denon he has recorded the Prokofiev Concertos with the Zurich Tonhalle and Michael Stern, the concertos by Sibelius, Bruch and Glazunov plus Shostakovich’s 1st Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic and Junichi Hirokami, Tchaikovsky’s Concerto with the London Philharmonic conducted by Michael Stern, among others. Boris Belkin has held master classes in Siena, Italy, at the famed Accademia Chigiana, since 1985. 2014/2015 If you wish to revise this biography please contact Mark Stephan Buhl Artists Management (office@msbuhl.com). Please us material of the current season only. | |
