BORIS BROVTSYN

Boris Brovtsyn was born in 1977. After graduating from Moscow´s Central Music School in 1994, he entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he studied with Maya Glezarova. During his time there he became a laureate of international competitions, such as Georg Kulenkampf, Transnet and Yehudi Menuhin, before graduating with top honours in 1999.

In 2001 he was a finalist at the Queen Elizabeth Violin Competition and won the 2001 Reuters Prize. The following year he won the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition.

Boris made his UK debut in 1998 with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Rumon Gamba. He became a student of David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2000 and since then has been spending most of his time in the UK. In 2004 he won the GSMD´s highest award, the Gold Medal.

As a soloist, Boris has worked with Yuri Bashmet, Gerd Albrecht, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Gilbert Varga, Alexander Lazarev, Vassily Sinaisky, Vladimir Fedoseev, Pavel Kogan, Marc Gorenstein and Arvo Volmer. The orchestras he has played with include Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre National de Belgique, BBC Philharmonic, English Classical Players, Orchestre National de Lille, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Moscow State Chamber Orchestra, Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Estonian Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Enescu at the Festival “George Enescu” in Bucharest, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva and Warsaw, with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and took part in the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival.