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 in Russia 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. In 1990 his family left Russia and in 1991 settled in the UK where he went to the Yehudi Menuhin School, studying there for three years with his mother Natalia Boyarsky.

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, Simon Rowland-Jones, and took lessons from Yuri Bashmet, Natalia Gutman and Igor Suliga(Kopelmann quartet). During that time he won many major awards including The Malcolm Sargent Award and Martin Fund. He was a winner of the 1999 Bernard Shore viola competition and got a "Diploma of Honour" from Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena,Italy. In 2003 Konstantin was a prize winner of the International Tertis viola competition.

At present Konstantin is working as one of the Principal violists of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as well as giving many solo and chamber music concerts around England, most European countries and worldwide venues in such countries as Singapore, Indonesia, USA, and Central and South America. Instrumentalists with whom he has collaborated as a soloist and chamber musician include the late Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Natalia Gutman, Nikolaj Znaider, Lang Lang and many others. The conductors with whom he has worked include Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Simon Rattle, Antonio Pappano and many others.

Konstantin also does a lot of composing. He has written a number of instrumental compositions and arrangements for viola and other instruments, as well as two ballets, "Sleepers" and "Children of War" which he wrote in collaboration with the The Royal Ballet school of dancing, one of which was broadcast as a feature by BBC television. In July 2008 he was commissioned to write a chamber music piece for the Radio France and Arts channel’s "Mezzo" festival: a string trio "Mosaique Musicale", which was very well received and met with rave reviews.