Boris Belkin

Boris Davidovich Belkin ( born January 26, 1948 in Sverdlovsk ) is a Russian violinist.

Boris Belkin began his violin studies at the age of six years and took seven years old the first time publicly under Kyrill Kondrashin on. He then studied at the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory. As a student he performed with the major orchestras of the Soviet Union, in 1973, he won the first prize in the national violin competition in the USSR.

1974 emigrated Belkin in the West, where he appeared with major symphony orchestras in the U.S., Canada, England, Germany and Israel, and under such conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leonard Bernstein, Sir Charles Groves, Bernard Haitink, Gunther Herbig, Erich Leinsdorf, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Klaus Tennstedt, Kurt Sanderling, William Steinberg, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Charles Dutoit and Myung- Whun Chung concerted.

He played, among others, the violin concertos by Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Strauss, Bruch, Prokofiev and Shostakovich on CD. He also appeared in several television productions, he played with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Orchestre National de France Ravel's Tzigane, in a biopic Sibelius ' he played his violin concerto with the Swedish Radio Orchestra under Ashkenazy.

Belkin leads a violin class at the Conservatory of Maastricht and is regularly in the summer master classes at the Accademica Chigiana in Siena.