KONSTANTIN BOYARSKY
Viola

Konstantin Boyarsky was born in Russia in 1976 into a family of musicians and began playing the violin at the age of six. He attended The Music School affiliated to the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he studied with Professor Inna Gauhman until 1990.

From an early age he took part in public concerts at prestigious venues including the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. At the age of 13 his musical talent was recognised by a special award for Performing Arts given by the Russian Fund for Culture.

At the age of 14, he emigrated with his family to England and for three years attended the Yehudi Menuhin School, where his mother Natalia Boyarsky is principal violin tutor.

In 1999, Konstantin completed a Bachelor of Music course and in summer 2000 a postgraduate course in advanced performance with distinction at the Royal College of Music where he studied with Doctor Felix Andrievsky and Simon Rowland-Jones. During that time he won many major awards including The Malcolm Sargent Award and Martin Fund. He was a winner of 1999 Bernard Shore viola competition and got a "Diploma of Honour" from Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena,Italy.

Konstantin has given many solo and chamber music concerts around England as well as many other European countries and United States. In 1997 he took part in a recital by invitation of HRH the Prince of Wales at the Royal Sandringham residence for the members of The Royal family. People with whom he has collaborated include Yehudi Menuhin, Yuri Bashmet, Pinchas Zukerman, Andrew Davies, Natalia Gutman, Vanessa-Mae, Lorin Maazel, Martyn Brabbins and many others. Notable venues at which he has given performances include Gstaad and Bath Festivals, Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, St John's Smith Square, Fairfield Halls, St. Martyn in the Fields and Buckingham Palace playing a wide range of repertoire from early sonatas by Marine Marais to pieces and concertos by Schtockhausen, Bainbrige, Schnittke.

Konstantin also does a lot of composing. Apart from number of compositions and arrangements for viola, in collaboration with choreographer Matthew Hart and Royal Ballet Konstantin composed the score for solo violin and strings for a ballet entitled "Sleepers" which is inspired by the assassination of the Romanoff family. The members of the Royal Ballet School and Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra performed the ballet and in December 1994 it was the subject of a feature by LWT- South Bank Show. His following composition - ballet suite "Children of War" was inspired by the Bosnia conflict and was sponsored by Schweppes Europe and recorded by the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra.


"...As a showcase for burgeoning talent it was violist Konstantin Boyarsky who stole the limelight. Clearly he's a name to watch."
~The Strad magazine

"...Boyarsky's broad, mellow tone with its glassy veneer was well suited to Schnittke's plaintive yet eminently expressive oeuvre..."

~The Strad (on the performance of Schnittke's viola
concerto with Philarmonia orchestra)

"The most promising and gifted player¡KHis outstanding individuality and unique talent make him one of this generation's leading young musicians."

~Yuri Bashmet

"A gifted young musician with immense musical potential."

~Mstislav Rostropovich
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