Alexander Sitkovetsky (born 1983) is a
British violinist.
Biography
Family
Sitkovetsky was born in
Moscow to a musical family; his father being guitarist and composer Alexander Sitkovetsky of the
Autograph fame, mother Olga Sitkovetsky being a
pianist, he is the nephew of violinist
Dmitry Sitkovetsky Dmitry Yulianovich Sitkovetsky (russian: Дмитрий Юлианович Ситковецкий; born September 27, 1954) is a Soviet-Russian born classical violinist, conductor and arranger, most notably of an arrangement for strings of J. S. ...
.
Musical Studies
Aged eight, he appeared as a soloist in
Montpellier
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, and he was subsequently invited to enroll at the
Yehudi Menuhin School. He studied there with
Natalya Boyarskaya
Natalya Konstantinovna Boyarskaya (russian: Ната́лья Константи́новна Боя́рская; born 1946) is a Russian violinist and music teacher. She is the wife of the cellist Alexander Boyarsky and mother of the violinist Ko ...
and
Hu Kun.
He has participated in
master classes with
Yehudi Menuhin, Dmitry Sitkovetsky,
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*Mauricio (given name)
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,
György Pauk
György Pauk (born 26 October 1936) is a Hungarian violinist, chamber musician and music pedagogue.
Biography
Pauk was born in Budapest, (Hungary), and entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music at age nine. He began his studies as Imre Waldbauer' ...
,
Maya Glezarova
Maya Glezarova ( Russian: ''Майя Глезарова''), (10 December, 1924, Moscow, Russia - 16 July 2017, Moscow, Russia) was a violinist and a professor.
Biography
Glezarova graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1949, where she studied ...
,
Zvi Zeitlin
Zvi Zeitlin (21 February 19222 May 2012) was a Russian-born American classical violinist and teacher.
Born in Dubroŭna (now in Belarus), the son of Jewish parents: a doctor and amateur violinist, Zeitlin won a scholarship at the age of 11 to th ...
,
Abram Stern,
Oleksandr Semchuk
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Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
, and
Maxim Vengerov.
Sitkovetsky is still studying, under
Pavel Vernikov in
Vienna.
Performer
Sitkovetsky performs as a soloist around the world and also records. He is part of the
Sitkovetsky Trio
The Sitkovetsky Trio is a piano trio, formed by students at the Yehudi Menuhin School in 2007, and has emerged as one of the outstanding trios of today, receiving numerous awards and critical acclaim.
Members
In 2018, the trio consisted of Alexand ...
.
References
External links
Official Websiteat his agent's page
page
1983 births
British violinists
British male violinists
Living people
Russian emigrants to the United Kingdom
21st-century violinists
21st-century British male musicians
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