BORIS BROVTSYN violin

As a soloist, Boris Brovtsyn has appeared with such renowned orchestras as Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, London Philharmonic, Royal Danish Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Berliner Rundfunk, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and the BBC Symphony, Philharmonic and Scottish orchestras, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre National de Lille and Moscow State Chamber Orchestra, Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Basel and Bern symphony orchestras, Warsaw Philharmonic, Utah Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of renowned conductors, including, Sir Neville Marriner, Vladimir Jurowski, Neeme Järvi, Marek Janowski, Vassili Sinaisky, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Gilbert Varga, Alexander Lazarev, Mikhail Jurowski, Gerd Albrecht, Alexander Vedernikov, Michael Sanderling, Arvo Volmer and Antony Wit, to name but a few.

Boris Brovtsyn appears on numerous CDs with Decca, BIS, Onyx and Naxos labels. His recording of Schubert and Schoenberg chamber works with Janine Jansen has won the ECHO Klassik award and the Brahms Clarinet Quintet with Martin Fröst was nominated for the Gramophone award. He has recorded an all-Schulhoff disc in 2016, and his CD of Ysaÿe’s solo violin sonatas was released in 2018 to great critical acclaim.

Boris Brovtsyn studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and became a laureate of international competitions, such as Georg Kulenkampff (1994, Cologne), Transnet (1996, Pretoria) and Yehudi Menuhin (1998). In 2001, he was a finalist at the Queen Elizabeth Violin Competition and won the 2001 Reuters Prize. The following year he won the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition. Currently based in Vienna, Boris Brovtsyn holds a professorship at the MUK Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität in Vienna.