Viktor Tretiakov
Viktor Viktorovich Tretyakov (Russian: Виктор Викторович Третьяков; born October 17, 1946 in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia ) is a Russian violinist and conductor.
Life and work
He was born into a family of musicians. With a young age he discovered his talent and love for his violin. In 1965, Viktor Tretyakov studied at the Moscow Conservatory, in the class of Prof. Yuri Jankelewitsch who promoted his talent outstanding, because in the same year was Tretyakov winner of the Union Competition for Violin and thus received a diploma of the first degree. A year later, the violinist won the first prize and the associated gold medal in the international Tchaikovsky Competition, which boosted his fame. 1968 Tretyakov made her first appearance with the Berlin Philharmonic. This was followed by concerts at the Berlin, and Vienna Festival in 1976 as a soloist at the Salzburg Festival, and numerous concert tours in the U.S. and Canada, among others, together with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, he has performed together with other world-renowned orchestras, including the Berlin, Vienna and Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, NHK Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra. He worked and worked with conductors such as Rostropovich, Ormandy, Temirkanov, Jochum, Krips, Gergiev, Fedoseyev, Maazel, Kempe, Yansons, Järvi, Levine, Mehta, Penderecki, Previn, Kondrashin and Pletnev.
In 1983 he was appointed chief conductor of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, with whom he worked for over a decade. From 1986 to 1994 he held the jurors Presidency in international Tchaikovsky Competition. Even as a chamber music partner of Svyatoslav Richter, Rostropovich, Oleg Kagan and the Borodin Quartet, he has made a name. He is also a jury member at numerous competitions in Brussels, Hannover, Sendai, Moscow, Helsinki and many other classical music competitions. His students include Ilya Kaler, Sergei Stadler, Evgeny Bushkov, Natalia Likhopoi ( Glazunov Quartet ), Dmitri Berlinsky, Abel Tomas Realp ( Cuarteto Casals ) and Roberto Cani ( New Hollywood String Quartet ). Along with Yuri Bashmet, Vassily Lobanov, Natalia Gutman and he founded a piano quartet that performs regularly throughout Europe. 1996 Victor Tretyakov was a professor at the Musikhochschule in Cologne offered that he thought then and where he is pedagogically active today. His numerous recordings have been released by Melodiya, Sony / BMG, Brilliant Classics, Live Classics, Classics Yedang, relief, Olympia, Russian Revelation, foresight, Records, and DVDs at TDK and Polo Arts.