Cellist Boris Andrianov is one of the most gifted Russian musicians of his generation. He is the Artistic Director of and the inspiration behind the new Star Generation project, which produces and manages concerts by talented young musicians in all cities and regions throughout Russia. For this project, in 2009 Boris Andrianov was awarded the Russian Federation Prize for Culture. The same year, he began to teach at the Moscow Conservatoire. In 2008 Moscow hosted the first-ever Vivacello festival in Russia, the Artistic Director of which is Boris Andrianov.
Boris Andrianov was born in 1976 to a family of musicians. He graduated from the Moscow Gnessins' School of Music, later studying at the Moscow State Conservatoire (class of Natalia Shakhovskaya) and at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler under the tutelage of David Geringas. In 1991 Boris Andrianov was allocated a grant by the New Names programme.
Boris Andrianov has been a prize-winner at the International Tchaikovsky Youth Competition, the International Shostakovich Competition Classica Nova in Hannover (together with Alexei Goribol, 1st prize, 1997), the VI International Mstislav Rostropovich Cello Competition in Paris (1997), the XI International Tchaikovsky Competition (3rd prize and Bronze Medal, 1998), the International Antonio Janigro Competition in Zagreb (1st prize and special awards, 2000) and the International Isang Yun Competition in South Korea (2003).
He performs with symphony and chamber orchestras, among them the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Kammerorchester Berlin, the Russian National Orchestra, the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic and the Kammerorchester Wien. He has also performed with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Alexander Vedernikov, David Geringas and Roman Kofman. Boris Andrianov has frequently appeared under renowned Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, performing his Concerto Grosso for three cellos and orchestra. Boris Andrianov performs a vast amount of chamber music; he has been partnered by such musicians as Yuri Bashmet, Menahem Pressler, Akiko Suwanai, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin and Denis Matsuev.
Boris Andrianov performs concerts at Russia's finest venues as well as at prestigious concert halls in The Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the USA, Slovakia, Italy, France, South Africa, South Korea, India and China among other countries. In September 2006, Boris Andrianov performed concerts in Grozny (Chechnya). These were the first classical music concerts in the republic since the start of the Chechen War.
Andrianov has participated in many international festivals, such as the Swedish Royal Festival, the Ludwigsburg Music Festival, the Dubrovnik Music Festival and the Davos Music Festival. |
In 2003, Delos Records released an album by Boris Andrianov recorded together with leading Russian guitarist Dimitri Illarionov; this recording was in the preliminary list of nominations for a Grammy award. In September 2007 Boris Andrianov's CD, recorded with pianist Rem Urasin, became Gramophone magazine's "Choice of the Month" CD.
Since 2005, Andrianov has played the "Domenico Montagnana" cello from the Russian State Collection of Unique Musical Instruments.
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