Boris Piergamienszczikow

Boris Mironovich Pergamenschtschikow (Russian Борис Миронович Пергаменщиков, scientific transliteration Boris Mironovic Pergamenščikov, in Germany also Pergamenschikow; born August 14, 1948 in Leningrad, † April 30, 2004 in Berlin) was a Russian cellist.

Life

While still a student at Emmanuel fish man in Leningrad reached Boris Pergamenschtschikow first notoriety and played with the State Orchestra of Moscow. In 1974 he received the Gold Medal at the 5th Tchaikovsky Competition. In 1977 he emigrated with his family and accepted a professorship at the Academy of Music and Dance Cologne. Since 1998, he taught at the Academy of Music " Hanns Eisler" Berlin.

He played together with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Yehudi Menuhin and Mstislav Rostropovich, as well as Krzysztof Penderecki and performed with major orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London at concerts and international festivals. In addition, he also played with the Amadeus Quartet and the Alban Berg Quartet modern and classical chamber music.

Even as a soloist played Pergamenschtschikow, for example on the CD Cello solo from 1989 ( AULOS records ) on which the rarely performed Sonata for cello by Paul Hindemith ( opus 25, No. 3) and the Sacher Variations for cello solo by Witold Lutosławski are.