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Mikhail Lvovich Bezverkhny (russian: Михаил Львович Безверхний; born 27 July 1947 in
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Mikhail Lvovich Bezverkhny (russian: Михаил Львович Безверхний; born 27 July 1947 in Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
) is a Soviet and later Russia
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The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...
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and composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and Defi ...
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Life and career
Born in Saint Petersburg in 1947, Bezverkhny commenced his violin studies at the age of 5 at the Central Music School of the Conservatory of Saint Petersburg. He was a student of Liubov Segal (student ofLeopold Auer
Leopold von Auer ( hu, Auer Lipót; June 7, 1845July 15, 1930) was a Hungarian violinist, academic, conductor, composer, and instructor. Many of his students went on to become prominent concert performers and teachers.
Early life and career
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) and Jacob Riabinkov. In 1965 he started his studies at the Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (russian: Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского, link=no) is a musical educational inst ...
under Yuri Yankelevich
Yuri Yankelevich (Russian: Юрий Исаевич Янкелевич) (7 March 1909 – 22 September 1973) was a Soviet violin pedagogue who taught many internationally known virtuosos during his long tenure at the Moscow Conservatory.
Life and c ...
- one of the most prominent violin professors of the 20th century. He also studied with Maya Gleyzarova, Abram Shtern
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and Nahum Latinsky. He is laureate of several international competitions:
*1967: 2nd prize Wieniawski Competition
*1969: 2nd prize chamber music competition in Munich
*1972: 2nd prize violin competition in Montreal
*1972: 1st prize chamber music competition in Belgrade
*1974: 1st prize chamber music competition in Budapest
*1976: 1st prize Queen Elisabeth Competition Brussels
In 1978 he was barred from leaving the USSR. In February 1990 he settled in Belgium. Since October 1992, Bezverkhny has been a member of the Shostakovich Trio, and his recordings for Melodya
Melodiya ( rus, links=no, Мелодия, t=Melody) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) record label. It was the state-owned major record company of the Soviet Union.
History
Melodiya was established in 1964 as the "All-Union Gramophone Record Firm ...
and Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon (; DGG) is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of the corporation PolyGram. Headquartered in Berlin Friedrichshain, it is now part of Universal Music Group (UMG) since its merger with the UMG family of ...
now number more than forty. During all these years he has been very intensely active as a violinist, a violist, a composer, a director and an actor. He also worked several times with Latvian-American conductor Imant Kotsinsh (now Imant Airea). They recorded pieces by several composers which includes Spohr and Mendelssohn. Currently he is teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. His students include amongst others Yoris Jarzynski and Dmitri Berlinsky Dmitri Berlinsky (russian: Дмитрий Берлинский) is an international solo violinist, chamber musician and a teacher. He took first prize in the Paganini Competition (Italy), and was the winner of the Montreal International Violin Co ...
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As a composer, he wrote a virtuoso Suite Gambrinus for violin and piano.
References
External links
New Consonant Music
Violin pedagogues Soviet classical violinists 20th-century classical violinists Russian classical violinists Male classical violinists Russian classical violists Living people 1947 births 21st-century classical violinists 20th-century Russian male musicians 21st-century Russian male musicians 20th-century violists 21st-century violists Moscow Conservatory alumni {{violist-stub