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a soloist, Boris Brovtsyn has collaborated with
artists such as Yuri Bashmet, Gerd Albrecht,
Yan Pascal Tortelier, and Arvo Volmer to
name but a few, and appeared with Orchestre
Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre
Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre
National de Belgique, BBC Philharmonic, and
Utah Symphony Orchestra. He has performed
at Verbier Festival, Lugano Festival, Edinburgh
Festival, and in the “George Enescu” Festival
among others. As a soloist, Boris has worked
with Sir Neville Marriner, Yuri Bashmet, Gerd
Albrecht, Marek Janowski, Alain Lombard and
Arvo Volmer to name but a few.
Alena Baeva / violin
Alena Baeva is fast emerging as one of the
finest violinists of her generation – having
already carved out an impressive career to date
working regularly as a soloist with orchestras
including the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Tokyo
Symphony Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky
Symphony Orchestra, the State Academic
Symphony Orchestra “Evgeny Svetlanov”, the
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the
German Radio Orchestra.Alena has worked with
conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir
Jurowski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir Neville
Marriner, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Paavo Berglund,
Kazuki Yamada, Sakari Oramo and Pablo Heras-
Casado. Her chamber music partners have
included MarthaArgerich, Yuri Bashmet, Steven
Isserlis, Nikolai Lugansky, Misha Maisky,
and Vadym Kholodenko, with whom she has
established a 10-year long musical partnership.
Alena Baeva is a graduate of the Moscow State
Tchaikovsky Conservatoire where she studied
between 2002 and 2007. In 2003 she was invited
by Mstislav Rostropovich to study in France
where she attended classes by Boris Garlitsky
and since 2007 she has participated in Seiji
Ozawa’s Academy in Switzerland. Her major
competition victory came in 2001 when she
won the Gold Medal at the Henryk Wieniawski
competition in Poznan, including the prize for
the best performance of a contemporary work. In
2004 Alena won the Grand Prix at the Moscow
International Niccolò Paganini Competition,
giving her the right to performon the Stradivarius
violin that belonged to Henryk Wieniawski; she
was also awarded the Gold Medal and audience
prize at the International Violin Competition in
Sendai (2007).
ChristianWestergaard
Clara-Jumi Kang