Boris Belkin

Infobox musical artist
Name = Boris Belkin


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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = "Boris Davidovič Belkin"
(Борис Давидович Белкин)
Born = January 26, 1948
Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk_Oblast, Russia
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Instrument = Violin
Genre = Classical
Occupation = Violinist
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Notable_instruments = Violin
Stradivarius ex USSR State Collection
Guadagnini 1754
Regazzi 1994 / Regazzi 2007

Boris Belkin (January 26, 1948) is a Russian born violin virtuoso.

Early years

As a child prodigy began studying the violin at the age of six, and made his first public appearance when he was seven with Kirill Kondrašin. He studied first at the Central Music School in the Moscow Conservatory with Professors Yuri Yankelevich and later with Felix Andrievsky .While still a student he played all over the Soviet Union with leading national orchestras, and in 1973 won first prize in the Soviet National competition for Violinists.

Career

In 1974 he emigrated to the west and since then has performed all over the world with many of the leading orchestras including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Concertgebouw, and all the major British Orchestras.

Boris Belkin has been featured in many television productions: a film biography of Jean Sibelius, performing the Sibelius Concerto with the Swedish Radio Orchestra and Ashkenazy, with Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto, with Bernstein and the Orchestre National de France playing Ravel's Tzigane: and with Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw in Mozart and Paganini No.1.

Conductors with whom he has collaborated, include Bernstein, Ashkenazy, Mehta, Maazel, Muti, Ozawa, Sanderling, Temirkanov, Dohnanyi, Dutoit, Gelmetti, Herbig, Tennstedt, Rattle, Haitink, Berglund, Mata, Chung, Hirokami, Fedoseyev, Ahronovich, Groves, Leinsdorf, Steinberg, Welser-Möst, Lazalev, Simonov and many others.In 1997 Isaac Stern invited Mr.Belkin to perform with him at the Miazaki Festival.

Boris Belkin also dedicates himself to the chamber music repertory, performing with artists such as Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky and many others.

His 2008/2009 season, he has a tour with St. Petersburg Philharmonic with Temirkanov, a tour in South America, concerts with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and performing Sibelius Concerto concerto with Sydney Symphony with Ashkenazy, concerts in London, Berlin, Barcelona, Rome.

Since 1987 Boris Belkin has held master classes in Siena, Italy, at the famed Accademia Chigiana.

Discography

His First recording,
* Paganini No.1 with the Israel Philharmonic and Mehta, was highly acclaimed.His other recordings for Decca include the
* Tchaikovsky and Sibelius Concertos with The Philharmonia and Ashkenazy, Strauss Concerto with Berlin Radio and Ashkenazy,
* Prokofiev Concertos No.1 and No.2 with the London Symphony and Kondrashin, the
* Brahms Concerto with the LSO and Fischer. For Denon he has recorded the
* Prokofiev Concertos with the Zurich Tonhalle and Michael Stern: the
* Sibelius and Bruch Concertos, and
* Shostakovich No.1 and the Glazunov Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic and Junichi Hirokami: the
* Tchaikovsky Concerto with the London Philharmonic and Stern: the Mozart Concerto in A major K219 and
* Sinfonia Concertante with the Salzburg Chamber Soloists and
* Brahms Sonatas with Michel Dalberto.

External links

* http://www.harrisonturner.co.uk/boris.htm
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=degA9b44k34
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBXVaHatjXc