Dmitri Berlinsky

Violinist (USA)
Represented in Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden).

It is rare to find an artist who has achieved the impeccable credentials and the uncompromising artistry of Dmitri Berlinsky. As a soloist and chamber musician, Mr. Berlinsky intention is to bring music’s spirit to his audience, reaching levels above mere entertainment.

Mr. Berlinsky arrived to the International scene as the youngest winner in history of the Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa, Italy. This victory led to his performance on Nicolo Paganini’s own Guarneri del Gesú instrument, a privilege shared by only a handful of artists in history. Subsequent triumphs at the Montreal International Violin Competition (the First Price), the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, have led him to appear with major orchestras in Europe, Russia, the Far East, North and south America. Mr. Berlinsky has performed in such major venues as Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegi Hall in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservastory, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Berlin Schattspiellhaus, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Bonn Beethoven Hall, and Le Place des Arts in Montreal among others.

Since coming to the United States in 1990 as the winner of the renowned Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Mr. Berlinsky has performed hundreds of concerts and given recitals in more than forty states throughout the USA. He has also performed in Australia, Mexico, Korea, Czech Republic, Uruguay, Belgium, France, Russia, Canada, Japan Taiwan, Guatemala, Peru and Italy.

Born in Petersburg into a family of musicians, Mr. Berlinsky began studying the violin with his father. At a very early age he appeared as soloist with the St. Petersburg Symphony and the Moscow Philharmonic. He studied at the Music School for Gifted Children with L. Ivaschenko, B. Sergeev, B. Gutnikov and M. Bezverkhny. Later he attended the Moscow Conservatory where he received his Bachelor and Master degrees studying under Victor Tretiakov, E. Chugaeva and N. Latinsky. After graduating from Moscow Mr. Berlinsky was invited to work with Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki at the Juilliard School from where he graduated in 1993.

Dmitri Berlisky has recorded for Melodya and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Mr. Berlinsky’s Pavane CD of a live recital recorded at Waterloo has won critical acclaim. His latest recording ”Souvenir D’un Lieu Cher” was released in the summer of 1997 on Helicon Records.

Reviews

(Lalo Symphonie Espagnol, Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester)

"Two decades ago a young man stood with a violin in his hands on the stage of Helsingborg Concert House. His name was Gidon Kremer and everybody immediately realize that the performance was by a future World star. 

At last Thursday's concert it felt as if History repeated itself. This time it was the Russian violinist Dmitri Berlinsky who, exactly as Kremer, not only has a complete command over his instrument, but also has such a presence that the individuality in the sound lifts the performance far above the average standard."

— Helsingborgs Dagblad (Sweden), Thursday, March 23, 2002

(Beethoven Violin Concerto, I Musici de Montreal)

“...inspirational presence... the dark, silky tone (from a Guarneri instrument of uncertain provenance) and the serious Russian schooling, which could be detected in his bolt-upright posture and consistently noble interpretive stance. The compatibility of nobility with tender emotion was clear in the Larghetto, whose sweetly rising semiquavers could hardly have been more poised"

— Montreal Gazette, Thursday, March 15, 2001

(Beethoven Violin Concerto, Mobile Symphony)

“His technical gifts are obvious, but the moment was made special by Berlinsky’s tranquil presence and low key style. This virtuoso is all substance and no flash”

— Mobile Register, Alabama, Sunday, March 11, 2001

(Barber Violin Concerto, I Musici de Montreal)

"Berlinsky displayed all his technical brilliance, especially in the demanding third movement, marked "presto in moto perpetuo". But his playing in the first two lyrical and emotion-charged movements was beautifully shaped and shaded, spinning out the long lines with deep understanding and emotion"

— The Palm Beach Post, Thursday, March 22, 2001

(West Virginia Symphony)

"A sensational performance by Russian violinist Dmitri Berlinsky in Glazunov's Violin Concerto in A Minor added sparkle to an excellent evening of music.

Violinist Berlinsky displayed such an easy mastery of his fiddle that I found myself wondering if the Glazunov is really that hard of a piece.

Of course it is. Berlinsky just played it with exceptional intonation - even in the complex multiple stops of the cadenza and the finale - and an unfailingly musical technique. His tone was deep and warm in the lyrical first and second movements while light and glittering in the rondo-variations of the finale.

Speck conducted deftly, bending the orchestra to every one of Berlinsky's subtle inflections. Together they made the Glazunov, a work not among the truly great violin concertos, into a magical experience"

— The Charleston Gazette, Monday January 22, 2001

“Berlinsky shone. He exuded the confidence and poise of a young Valentino. There was no shortage of brilliance and fun in his performance of Paganini’s La Campanella, and his verve was a source of delight.”

— The Washington Post

“It’s not the ract of his natural violinistic talent, or his impeccable schooling, nor his astonishing technique, but above all and most important, the experessive depth and authority of a complete musician.”

— Il Secolo XIX (Italy)

“Berlinsky displayed complete technical mastery. He played the Beethoven with elegance of style and phrasing. In the Paganini Concerto, he gave an exceptional display of controlled violin playing.”

— The Strad