Nikita Boriso-Glebsky
VIOLIN
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“Nikita Boriso-Glebsky has firmly established himself as one of the new generation's eminent young European concert artists, praised for his deep musical thinking, impeccable technique, elegance and instinctiveness”. The Violin Channel.
A commanding presence among the young violinists of today, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky has already contributed to the expansion of the violin literature with a recording of the recently discovered concerto in D Minor by Eugène Ysaÿe. When the original handwritten score was found at the Juilliard School, Nikita was invited to record the piece with Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège for the album "A Tribute to Ysaïe" (2019), which also featured Renaud Capuçon, Henri Demarquette, and Stéphane Denève. Produced with support from the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, the recording has been awarded the prestigious Diapason d'Or award. In May 2024 Nikita will give a first-ever public performance of this work at Carnegie Hall with The Orchestra Now under the baton of Leon Botstein. This concert will be the young violinist’s Carnegie Hall debut.
The current season in rich in orchestral collaborations. It includes concerts with Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Kammerorchester, Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, and Orquestra Sinfonica de Tenerife, and other ensembles. In the past seasons Nikita is proud to have collaborated with some of the top conductors of our times: Klaus Mäkelä, David Afkam, Sakari Oramo, Hannu Lintu, Vasily Sinaisky, Dima Slobodenyuk, Vladimir Fedoseev, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Marta Gardolinska, Christopher Warren-Green, and Jaime Martin.
His chamber music partners include Denis Kozhukhin, Dmitry Masleev, Zlatomir Fung, and Georgy Tchaidze, with whom he recently embarked on a 9-concert tour of China, culminating with a recital at the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center.
Memorable festival appearances include Salzburg, Rheingau, and Stars of the White Nights, as well as the Beethovenfest Bonn and “La Folle Journee” in Nantes, Tokyo and Yekaterinburg.
Eugene Ysaye Concerto in D Minor with Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Nikta Boriso-Glebsky’s extensive repertoire features new music and XX century works alongside the iconic violin concertos. He is the first performer of several compositions by Rodion Shchedrin, Alexander Tchaikovsky, and Kuzma Bodrov.
In addition to “A Tribute to Ysaÿe”, Nikita has recorded an anthology of Nikolai Medtner's works for violin and piano with Ekaterina Derzhavina (Profil, 2018) as well as Symphonie Espagnole with Sinfonia Varsovia and Beethoven Violin Sonata in G Major op. 96, n. 10 with Dana Protopopescu (Queen Elisabeth Competition label, 2021 and 2009).
Nikita Boriso-Glebsky triumphed at the Kreisler Competitions in Vienna and the Sibelius Competition in Helsinki in 2010 (First Prizes) and at the Monte Carlo Violin Masters competition in Monaco in 2013 (Grand Prix). Earlier on he has distinguished himself at the most prestigious international contests, including the Tchaikovsky, the Queen Elisabeth, and the Montreal competitions.
He is particularly grateful for the Violinist of the Year award he received from the International Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin Foundation (USA), the Virtuoso Prize of the Italian Academy of String Instruments and the Antonio Stradivari Society (Cremona), and the Jan Sibelius Medal from the Sibelius Foundation in Finland. In 2010, the Russian newspaper Musical Review declared Nikita "Person of the Year".
He plays the violin created by the Austrian master Martin Schwalb in 2020. The instrument was modeled on the Guarneri del Gesù "Ole Bull" violin from 1744.
Nikita was born in 1985 in the South-East of Russia in the city of Volgodonsk on the Don River. He graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory with a PhD in violin performance (class of Professor Eduard Grach and Associate Professor Tatiana Berkul) and went on to develop his musicianship under the guidance of Augustin Dumay in Brussels and Anna Chumachenko in Kronberg.