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YURI ZHISLIN - Born
in 1974, Yuri studied the violin at the Moscow
Gnessin Music
School
for musically gifted children with Ms Svetlova
and later at the
Royal College of Music
with his father, Grigori Zhislin and Dr Felix
Andrievsky.
During his school years, Yuri frequently
appeared as a soloist with the school orchestras,
representing the School in major Russian cities
and in Europe. He won the Dvarionas
International Competition for young musicians in
Lithuania in 1989 and same year made a number of
broadcasts for the Russian Radio and Television.
Having received his ARCM Diploma with Honours,
Yuri represented the College in concerts
throughout Europe: Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo,
Madrid and Brussels.
Yuri is a Laureate and major prize-winner of
various international competitions: the Carmel
Competition in California, Premio Trio di
Trieste in Italy, Pablo Sarasate in Spain and
Douai Violin Competition in France among others.
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appeared in major concert halls throughout the
world, performing at the Wigmore Hall, the Queen
Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, the
Concertgebouw and gave recitals and performed
with various orchestras in his native Russia and
in the UK, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Spain, France,
Germany, Yugoslavia, Sweden, Switzerland,
Austria, Poland, the USA, Australia and New
Zealand. Yuri has made a number of recordings
and appeared in live broadcasts on the BBC Radio
Two, Radio Three and various classical networks
throughout Europe and the USA.
Recent seasons saw him perform with the BBC
Concert Orchestra, the London Mozart Players,
the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Lublin
Philharmonic, the Louisiana Strings, the
Asturias Symphony Orchestra and the Lithuanian
State Symphony Orchestra.
The conductors Yuri colaborated with include
Olari Elts, Barry Wandsworth, Alexander
Markovich, Yakov Voldman, Alex Walker, Misha
Rakhlevsky, Dragomir Yossifov and Maximiano
Valdes among many others.
Yuri is in high demand at the international
festivals around the world. He appears as a
soloist and a chamber musician in festivals
throughout the UK: Bath, Chichester, Cheltenham,
Windsor, Ulverston, and the Asturias Festivities
(Spain), Cadaques (Spain), Seattle (USA), Baku (Azerbaijan),
Hohenems (Austria), March Music Days in Rousse
(Bulgaria), Varberg (Sweden), Paphos (Cyprus)
and in Gensac (France) among others.
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a violist, Yuri regularly appears in a String
Trio with the eminent Russian violinist Dmitry
Sitkovetsky and outstanding young Armenian
cellist Alexander Chaushian.
Yuri has made his viola concerto debut in
October 2005, performing Hindemith's "Der
Schwanendreher" Viola Concerto in Zaragoza,
Spain.
Yuri is a founder and Artistic Director of the
Russian Virtuosi of Europe - an ensemble that
brings together some of the finest Russian
musicians who are now based in Western Europe.
He is an Artistic Director of the Evaristo Valle
International Music Festival in Spain and
professor of violin at the Royal College of
Music in London.
His most recent engagement was return visit to
Belgrade, where he performed the Glazunov Violin
Concerto with the Belgrade Philharmonic. Yuri's
debut recital CD featuring works for violin and
viola has been released on the SOMM Recordings
label in the Autumn 2005.
Future engagements include concerts and
masterclasses in Bulgaria, Holland, Spain and
Russia and a debut as a soloist and conductor
with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra.
"Zhislin is a virtuoso with a lyrical talent and a truly Romantic temperament."
