Yuri Gandelsman (b1951)

The violist Yuri Gandelsman has been enchanting audiences around the world for the last thirty years as a soloist, chamber musician and conductor. He was born in Tashkent, and studied in Moscow with Heinrich Talalyan of the Komitas Quartet, and Valentin Berlinsky, cellist of the Borodin Quartet. After winning the National Viola Competition in 1980 and joining the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra as a principal violist and soloist, he quickly became one of the leading musicians in the USSR. His collaborations included concerts with such renowned musicians as Sviatoslav Richter, Evgeny Kissin, Oleg Kagan, Natalia Gutman, Yuri Bashmet, the Borodin Quartet, and the Shostakovich Quartet. At the same time he made recordings for Melodiya and for RCA.

In 1990, after leaving Russia, he became principal viola with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta. During the following ten years with the orchestra he frequently performed as a soloist within Israel, as well as in the United States, Spain, Portugal and Luxemburg, working with leading conductors. He has appeared with many orchestras in Italy, France, Finland, Holland, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Brazil, Germany and Russial. Yuri Gandelsman has performed in numerous festivals, including the Pablo Casals, Kuhmo, Portogruaro, Savonlinna, and Istanbul Festival, and collaborated with the most distinguished colleagues.

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