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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