Abschlusskonzert Internationaler Violin-Meisterkurs Prof. Andrey Baranov (Folkwang Musikhochschule Essen)

WINNER OF THE QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION 2012

In addition to winning more than twenty competition prizes and being named the winner of the Benjamin Britten and Henri Marteau competitions, Andrey Baranov was named the first-prize winner of the 2012 Queen Elizabeth Competition.

Andrey Baranov was born in 1986 into a family of musicians in St. Petersburg and began playing the violin at the age of five. He attended the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg and the Lausanne Conservatory, studying under teachers such as L. Ivaschenko, V. Ovcharek, and P. Popov, as well as with the legendary French violinist Pierre Amoyal.

Since his debut with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic under the baton of V. Petrenko at the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall in 2005, Baranov has performed in many notable venues such as Bozar (Brussels), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Great Hall of the Mozarteum (Salzburg), Cadogan Hall in London, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall.

Throughout his career, Andrey Baranov has performed with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Camarata Salzburg, the Montreal Symphony, the Liverpool Philharmonic, the Luxembourg Philharmonic, the Brussels Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the MusicAeterna Orchestra, the Aalborg Symphony, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, Sendai Philharmonic, Gwangju Symphony, and SWR Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra under conductors such as Y. Temirkanov, V. Fedoseev, T. Currentzis, K. Nagano, V. Petrenko, Michael Sanderling, Daniel Raiskin, N. Alekseev, M. Tabachnik, W. Weller, Gabriel Bebeselea, Ion Marin, and E. Krivine. Baranov has also performed with artists such as Martha Argerich, Eliso Virsaladze, Julian Rachlin, Boris Andrianov, Pierre Amoyal, and Liana Isakadze.

In addition to his career as a soloist, Andrey Baranov is also the first violinist of the internationally successful David Oistrakh Quartet, which was founded in 2012 with Rodin Petrov, Fedor Belugin, and Alexey Zhilin. At the age of 23, he was already appointed teaching assistant to Pierre Amoyal at the Lausanne Conservatory. He subsequently led various master classes in Chicago, Bangkok, Riga, Vilnius, Stockholm, Manchester, and Moscow.Andrey Baranov is also the first violinist of the critically acclaimed “David Oistrakh Quartet,” which was founded in 2012.

As regular guests of the Biennale at the Philharmonie de Paris, they have performed at Wigmore Hall, the Pierre Boulez Hall in Berlin, at the Prague Spring Festival, the “Stars on Baikal” Festival at the invitation of Denis Matsuev, the Palau de la Música in Valencia, the Auditorio de Barcelona, the Bratislava Festival, the Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Gulbenkian Foundation’s Quartet Festival, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, and at her Austrian debut at the Stiftskonzerte. Upcoming highlights will take them on tours of Scandinavia, Spain, and Switzerland, as well as back to the Philharmonie de Paris, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, and the Auditorio de Barcelona.