Boris Andrianov |

Boris Andrianov

Boris Andrianov is one of the leading Russian musicians of his generation. He is the ideological inspirer and leader of the Generation of Stars project, within the framework of which concerts of young talented musicians are held in different cities and regions of Russia. At the end of 2009, Boris was awarded the Russian Government Prize in the field of Culture for this project. Also, since the end of 2009, Boris has been teaching at the Moscow State Conservatory.

In 2008 Moscow hosted the first cello festival in the history of Russia, the art director of which is Boris Andrianov. In March 2010, the second festival “VIVACELLO” will be held, which will bring together such outstanding musicians as Natalia Gutman, Yuri Bashmet, Misha Maisky, David Geringas, Julian Rakhlin and others.

With his participation in 2000 in the International Antonio Janigro Competition in Zagreb (Croatia), where Boris Andrianov was awarded the 1st prize and received all the special prizes, the cellist confirmed his high reputation, which had developed after the XI International Competition named after. P.I. Tchaikovsky, where he won the 3rd prize and the Bronze medal.

The talent of Boris Andrianov was noted by many famous musicians. Daniil Shafran wrote: Today Boris Andrianov is one of the most talented cellists. I have no doubts about his great future. And at the VI International M. Rostropovich Cello Competition in Paris (1997), Boris Andrianov became the first representative of Russia to receive the title of laureate in the entire history of the competition.

In September 2007, the disc by Boris Andrianov and pianist Rem Urasin was chosen by the English magazine Gramophone as the best chamber disc of the month. In 2003, Boris Andrianov’s album, recorded together with the leading Russian guitarist Dmitry Illarionov, released by the American company DELOS, entered the preliminary list of Grammy Award nominees.

Boris Andrianov was born in 1976 into a family of musicians. He graduated from the Moscow Musical Lyceum. Gnesins, class of V.M. Birina, then studied at the Moscow State Conservatory, class of the People’s Artist of the USSR Professor N.N. Hans Eisler (Germany) in the class of famous cellist David Geringas.

At the age of 16, he became a laureate of the first International Youth Competition. P.I. Tchaikovsky, and a year later received the first and Grand Prix at a competition in South Africa.

Since 1991, Boris has been a scholarship holder of the New Names program, which he presented with concerts in many cities of Russia, as well as in the Vatican – the residence of Pope John Paul II, in Geneva – at the UN office, in London – in St. James Palace. In May 1997, Boris Andrianov, together with pianist A. Goribol, became a laureate of the First International Competition. D.D. Shostakovich “Classica Nova” (Hannover, Germany). In 2003, Boris Andrianov became a laureate of the 1st International Isang Yun Competition (Korea). Boris has participated in many international festivals, including: the Swedish Royal Festival, the Ludwigsburg Festival, the Cervo Festival (Italy), the Dubrovnik Festival, the Davos Festival, the Crescendo Festival (Russia). Permanent participant of the chamber music festival “Return” (Moscow).

Boris Andrianov has an extensive concert repertoire, performs with symphony and chamber orchestras, including: the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, the National Orchestra of France, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Croatian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Zagreb Soloists Chamber Orchestra ”, Polish Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Chamber Orchestra, Bonn Beethoven Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Oleg Lundstrem Jazz Orchestra. He also played with famous conductors such as V. Gergiev, V. Fedoseev, M. Gorenstein, P. Kogan, A. Vedernikov, D. Geringas, R. Kofman. Boris Andrianov, together with the famous Polish composer K. Penderecki, repeatedly performed his Concerto Grosso for three cellos and orchestra. Boris performs a lot of chamber music. His partners were such musicians as Yuri Bashmet, Menachem Pressler, Akiko Suvanai, Jeanine Jansen, Julian Rakhlin.

After the performance of the Boccherini Concerto at the Berlin Philharmonic, the newspaper “Berliner Tagesspiegel” published an article entitled “Young God”: … a young Russian musician plays like a god: touching sound, beautiful soft vibration and mastery of the instrument created a small miracle from the unpretentious Boccherini concerto …

Boris gives concerts in the best halls of Russia, as well as at the most prestigious concert venues in Holland, Japan, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, USA, Slovakia, Italy, France, South Africa, Korea, Italy, India, China and other countries.

In September 2006, Boris Andrianov gave concerts in Grozny. These were the first classical music concerts in the Chechen Republic since the outbreak of hostilities.

Since 2005, Boris has been playing an instrument by Domenico Montagnana from the State Collection of Unique Musical Instruments.

Source: cellist’s official website