Andrey baranov biography

Andrey Baranov is a.
Born in St.Petersburg in 1986 into a family of musicians, Andrey began playing the violin at the age of five.
Andrey Baranov studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory under Vladimir Ovcharek and Pavel Popov, before going on to further studies at the Lausanne.

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Biography Andrey Baranov, Christoph Croisé, Alexander Panfilov

Christoph Croisé
Lauded for ‘delicate yet virtuosic’ playing (BBC Music Magazine) and ‘seamless subtleties of tone colour’ with ‘plenty of edge’ (The Strad) , Swiss-French-German cellist Christoph Croisé is quickly building an international reputation as one of the most captivating young concert soloists to emerge in recent years.

At the age of 17, he made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall and has since performed in many more of the world’s renowned concert halls, among them the Tonhalle Zürich, the Berliner Philharmonie, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Baku State Philharmonic Hall.

As a soloist, Croisé has appeared under the batons of conductors such as Michael Sanderling, Mario Venzago, Ayyub Guliyev, Alf Årdal, Maurizio Dones, Giovanni Bria and Dimitris Botinis, with various orchestras including Musikkollegium Winterthur, St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Switzerland, the Moravská filharmonie Olomouc,

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VIOLIN 2012 : First Prize

Andrey Baranov studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory under Vladimir Ovcharek and Pavel Popov, before going on to further studies at the Lausanne Conservatory under Pierre Amoyal, whose assistant he became in 2009. In 2008 he won the Benjamin Britten International Competition (London) and the Henri Marteau Competition (Lichtenberg) and in 2010 he was a laureate of the Sendai (Japan), Indianapolis, Unisa (South Africa), Paganini, and Oistrakh (Moscow) international competitions. Since making his debut with the St Petersburg Philharmonic in 2005, he has played on all five continents in prestigious venues such as the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and the Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow) and at festivals, including the Salzburger Festspiele. In 2012, the family of David Oistrakh honoured the quartet of which Andrey Baranov is the first violinist with his name.

Biography

CV - diplôme concertiste St. Petersburg 2009

Teachers

L.A.Ivaschenko(1991-1995)
V.Y.Ovcharek (1995-2007)
P.V.Popov (2007-2009)
Pierre Amoyal (from 2006)

Degrees

Diploma of St-Petersburg's conservat

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Andrey Baranov, violin

Winner of 2012 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition and laureate of 2010 Indianapolis, Sendai, Unisa, Oistrach and Paganini (Moscow) international competitions, the young Russian Violinist is among the most recognized violinists of today.

Baranov is a founding member of David Oistrakh quartet, an outstanding ensemble established in 2012.

Baranov’s interpretation of Tchaikovsky concerto has been hailed by Franken Post as ‚charmed with an instinct for tone color’‚resembalance to legendary Jascha Heifitz’, and Strad Magazine article reported Baranov’s performance of Benjamin Britten’s violin concerto as ‘Best of all was Andrey Baranov of Russia. His was a performance of real authority, full of power and purpose, and the only one really to show the concerto for the complex and enigmatic piece that it is. In the second movement, particularly, he found real personality where the others had mostly just played the notes. Baranov’s performance knocked spots off the others and was by some distance the most powerful reading of