Yury Revich (; born 28 August 1991) is a Russian-born Austrian classical violinist and composer. He was named the Young Artist of the Year in 2015 by the

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(ICMA) and the 2016

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"Newcomer of the year (violin)" award. He plays on a Stradivari 1709 violin on loan from the Goh Family Foundation.

Life and career

Born in Moscow, Revich studied with Galina Turchaninovoy from 2005 to 2009, with Victor Pikaizen, and since 2009 with Pavel Vernikov at the ''

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. 22 October 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013 Amongst his other awards are Man of The Year by LOOK in Austria and Bernsteingeiger Award by Beethoven Center Vienna. His recording of music by

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was listed in ''Billboard'' Top 100 Classical Charts and is part of the soundtrack of the

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. He was a scholarship holder of the

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Foundation, participated in the International Charity Funds of Nahum Guzik and

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. In May 2009, he made his debut with

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at New York's

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. He runs his International Multidisciplinary Festival "Festival Nights with Yury Revich" (Formerly known as Friday Nights with Yury Revich) and Project "Dreamland" and works with musicians and artists from different genres such as

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and

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and others. He has performed at international Festivals, such as the

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, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad,

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, Al Bustan Festival in Beirut,

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in Martina Franca, Aurora Music Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Vladimir Spivakov's Festival in Colmar (France), the Rostropovich Festival in

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), the Rome Chamber Music Festival,

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's Festival in

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), the Festival of music in

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), and the Eilat Festival in Israel.About artist
Yury Revich. Revich has received several awards at international competitions for young musicians – in particular, the first prize at the International Violin Competition "Virtuosi of the 21st Century" in Moscow. French master luthier Alain Carbonare presented Revich with a Carbonare violin. He won the first prize of the Guzik Foundation. Named as "New Paganini" by medias, in 2013

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wrote:

"Yury Revich performs the outer movements of Andreas's Third Violin Concerto op.46 with full-blooded authority, fleet-fingered dexterity, innate musicality and substantial accuracy..."

The journalist Natalia Kolesova wrote in 2001:

In his performance of ''Basque Capriccio'' by Sarasate you heard drama, passion and courageous rigor. Gloss playing a young violinist once again proved that in the world of music maturity comes not with age, and responds to the depth of feelings.

He first played at Zurich Tonhalle and

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in Milan (Italy) in 2013, performing Tchaikovsky's

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with the

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conducted by Zhang Xion. Since then he plays as a solo violinist in venues like Golden Hall of

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in Vienna, Berlin Philharmonic Hall,

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, Bozar in Brussels and others. As a composer some of the performances of his original works include: * Composer solo debut in Salle Pleyel, Paris, 2024 * Premiere of "Unity" in the Golden Hall of Musikverein Vienna, 2023 * Premiere of the First Violin Concerto "Awakening" in Salzburg, 2022 * Premiere of the First Symphony "Kaleidoscope" in London, 2023 * Art Basel Paris+, 2023 (as both composer and artistic director of the multidisciplinary project UNITY) * The Cannes Film Festival, 2023 and 2024 * Liszt Festival Austria, 2023 * Main stage of the World Expo Dubai. 2021 (as both composer and artistic director) * United Nations Environment Program Earth Day (composing piece for 100 musicians from around the world), 2021 * With Munich Symphony Orchestra and Berlin Symphony Orchestra, 2023 He records for Sony Classical, ARS, Odradek and onepoint.fm. In 2015 Revich launched a new international multidisciplinary concert cycle in

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"Friday Nights with Yury Revich". Since 2023 the project has been renamed into multidisciplinary Festival Nights with Yury Revich In June 2015 he organized the First Gala Concert in Vienna "All for Autism" to support the Austrian Center for Autism (Österreichische Autistenhilfe). He is an honorary representative for

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Austria. in 2022 and 2023 Revich was performing at the

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Recordings

* ''Russian Soul'' – with Valentina Babor (piano), 2012, Ars Produktion 1008420 * ''

Andreas Romberg Andreas Jakob Romberg (27 April 1767 – 10 November 1821) was a German violinist and composer. Romberg was born in Vechta, in the Duchy of Oldenburg. He learned the violin from his musician father Gerhard Heinrich Romberg and first performed ...

: 3 Violin Sonatas, Op.32'' – 2013, Sony Classical Switzerland G010002935153N * ''Romberg: Concertos'' 2013, Sony Classical Switzerland * ''Mozart and Sarasate'' 2014, OnePoint.FM * ''8 Seasons'' 2015, Ars Produktion 38170 * ''Steps through the Centuries'' 2015, Odradek Records 0855317003103 * ''Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier De Saint-Georges: Symphonies Concertantes'', 2021 Naxos * Doderer: Symphony No. 2, DWV 93 "Bohinj" & Violin Concerto No. 2, DWV 62b "In Breath of Time" 2015, Capriccio 2015 Original music by Yury Revich is released under his project name OLARIO. He composed music for a few film projects, for example INCOMPLETE produced by

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References

External links

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Dreamland with Yury Revich humanitarian project
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