Boris Brovtsyn

Violinist

"A wonderful talent"

— Rudgierro Ricci

"A high-octane performance"

— Los-Angeles Times

Boris Brovtsyn was born in Moscow in 1977 into a family with deep musical roots and started to play violin under the guidance of his grandfather, a pupil of Lev Zeitlin and Abram Yampolsky. He entered the famous Central Music School in 1984 and graduated with a Bachelor Degree in 1994 before becoming a student of Maya Glezarova at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He graduated with a diploma in 1999 and is now a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, studying with David Takeno. He made his first public appearance on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre at the age of six and since then has performed in the main concert halls in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and other cities of Russia as well as in Cities of New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union.

From an early age he has collaborated with such distinguished conductors as Alexander Lazarev and Yuri Bashmet, performing with the Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Moscow State Chamber Orchestra, Pertoria Symphony, Orchestra National de Lille, BBC Philharmonic, Orchestre Philarmonique de Monte-Carlo and Birmingham Royal Ballet Sinfonia, to name just a few. His concert tours include performances in Germany (alte Opera Hall, Frankfurt; Kolner Philharmonie, Cologne), France (UNESCO Congress Hall and Opera Comique Theatre, Paris); Holland (Concertgebow Hall, Amsterdam); Austria (Palais Lobkovitz, Vienna).

Mr. Brobtsyn has made many recordings for television and radio in Russia, Germany, Austria, France, South Africa, the United States, where he first appeared in 1995, and, most notably, in Italy, where Mr. Brovtzyn performed in front of His Holiness John Paul II in September 1993.

His competition awards include the second prizes at the Georg Kulenkampf Violin Competition in Cologne, the Transnet International String Competition in Pretoria (South Arfica), the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition in France as well as the 1st prize at the Tibor Varga Violin Competition in Switzerland. Since 1992 Mr. Brovtsyn has been a scholar of the Russian Culture foundation ("New Names" charity program).

Many competition adjudicators and critics have particularly praised his playing with such plaudits as "brilliant" (Kolnishe Rundshau), "rising star" (Pretoria News), "wonderful talent" (Rudgierro Ricci), "a remarkable technician and intense musician" (Los Angeles Times), and "highly artistic" (Norbert Brainin).