Boris Kuschnir

Boris Kushnir ( born October 28, 1948 in Kiev, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian- Austrian violinist.

Life

Boris Kushnir was born in 1948 in Kiev into a musical family, studied at Moscow State P. I. Tchaikovsky - Conservatory violin with Boris Belenky and chamber music with Valentin Berlinsky ( Borodin Quartet ).

Lasting influence on his artistic development was his encounters with Dmitri Shostakovich and David Oistrakh, who also taught him. His career began in 1969 when he was one of three winners of the Allunionswettbewerb in Leningrad and in the finals under the direction of Yuri Temirkanov, played the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Leningrad Philharmonic.

As a result, he won numerous prizes at international violin and chamber music competitions (Paris, Belgrade, Sion, Trapani, Bratislava, Florence, Trieste, Gorizia, Hamburg, Vercelli). In 1970 he founded the Moscow String Quartet, and was until 1979 the permanent member. As a Jew by birth, he could make 1980 an exit visa from the Soviet Union. A year later, he emigrated to Vienna. Since 1981 he lives in Austria, received Austrian citizenship in 1982, was until 1983 the first concert of the Bruckner Orchester Linz, since 1984 professor at the Vienna Conservatory and since 1999 full professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

His educational won international recognition with the artistic success of his pupils Julian Rachlin ( 1st Prize € Vision competition, Amsterdam, 1988), Nikolaj Znaider ( 1st Prize Queen Elizabeth Competition, Brussels 1997), Lidia ( 1st Prize euro Vision competition, Vienna 1998 ), Dalibor Karvay ( 1st Prize € Vision competition, Berlin 2002 1st Prize international Tibor Varga Competition, Switzerland 2003; 1st Prize David Oistrakh Violin Competition, Moscow 2008), Alexandra Soumm ( 1 Price international euro vision contest, Lucerne 2004), Lorenzo Gatto ( 2nd Prize Queen Elizabeth competition, Brussels, 2009 ), Pavel Milyukov (1st prize Aram Khachaturian International Competition, Yerevan 2012, 2nd prize Seoul International Music Competition, 2012) and Eugene Chepovetsky (2nd prize David Oistrakh International Competition, Moscow, 2008, 3rd prize: Louis Spohr competition, Weimar, 2013), Yuuki Wong (2nd Price Michael Hill competition, New Zealand, 2007 ), Julia Turnovsky (3rd prize International David Oistrakh Violin Competition, Moscow, 2008 ). In addition, he has produced more than 40 winners of national and international competitions during his teaching career. In addition, he has taught more than 40 winners of national and international music competitions. Some of his students were awarded professorships at universities, they play in numerous chamber ensembles and orchestras throughout the world and six of his students are now members of the Vienna Philharmonic.

In addition, he was always as master classes as well as a jury member at international competitions (among Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Niccolò Paganini Competition in Genoa, Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris, Joseph Joachim Competition in Hanover, Tibor Varga competition in Switzerland, Michael Hill competition in New Zealand, euro Vision Young Musicians, David Oistrakh competition in Moscow, Pablo de Sarasate competition in Pamplona, ​​George Enescu competition in Bucharest, Seoul International Music Competition, Violin Masters in Monte Carlo, Louis Spohr competition in Weimar, Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition in Fermo, Aram Khachaturian International Competition in Yerevan and Yankelevitch International Violin Competition active in Omsk ).

In 1984 he founded with pianist Claus- Christian Schuster and cellist Martin Hornstein the internationally recognized with many awards Wiener Schubert Trio ( inter alia, 1st prize at the International Chamber Music Competition Sergio Lorenzi in Trieste in 1985, in which Sandor Vegh was president of the jury, Mozart interpretation Prize 1988 prize of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation in 1990, etc.). Boris Kushnir played as a soloist and chamber musician in the major music centers of the world: the Musikverein (Vienna), Teatro alla Scala (Milan ), La Fenice (Venice), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Wigmore Hall ( London), Théâtre des Champs- Elyssés (Paris), Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow), Ishibashi Memorial Hall (Tokyo) and at major international festivals including the Salzburg Festival, Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus Festival, Vienna Festival, Besançon ( Washington), Spoleto (Naples), Stresa, Bregenz Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, Sviatoslav Richter Winter Festival (Moscow), Julian Rachlin & Friends ( Dubrovnik), Verbier Festival ( Switzerland ). His chamber music partners were personalities such as L. Leonskaya, B. Berezovsky, LO Andsnes, J.-Y. Thibaudet, I. Golan, E. Bashkirova, J. Rachlin, N. Znaider, Maxim Vengerov, D. Sitkovetsky, R. Capuçon, D. Garrett, J. Bashmet, G. Causse, N. Imai, L. Power, V. Hagen, D. Carpenter, A. Tamestit, M. Maisky, B. Pergamenschikow, S. Isserlis, G. Capuçon, p Gabetta, G. Hoffmann, J.-G. Queyras, H. Beyerle, T. Kakuska and V. Erben ( Alban Berg Quartet). He produced as a soloist and as a chamber musician numerous recordings, of which especially stands out the complete recording of Mozart's piano trios that were released by EMI on the occasion of the Mozart Year 1991.

In 1993 he founded the Vienna Brahms Trio, which made their debut at Gidon Kremer's Chamber Music Festival in curls house. 1996 won the trio the first prize at the 9th International Chamber Music Competition in Illzach (Alsace, France). Published in 1999 by the Vienna Brahms Trio the complete recording of the Schumann's works for piano trio on 2 CDs for NAXOS.

In 1999, the Austrian Federal President Thomas Klestil awarded the title of Professor Boris Kushnir.

In 2002, Boris Kushnir was a co-founder of the Kopelman Quartet, with whom he has performed since then in the world.

In 2008, the Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer gave the Large Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria to Boris Kushnir.

1991 Boris Kushnir was left in recognition of his artistic achievements of an acquired by the Austrian National Bank Stradivarius violin (the " La Rouse Boughton - " 1698 ) for use.

Awards

• Large Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria (2008)