VIKTOR TRETYAKOV

Violinist. People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1979) and the USSR (1987). Laureate of Lenin Komsomol’s Award (1967), the Glinka State Award of the RSFSR (1981) and the Shostakovich Premium (1997) awarded by Yuri Bashmet’s International Charity Foundation. Professor at Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (since 1979) and Musikhochschule in K?ln (since 1996). Teaches master classes worldwide on a regular basis.

Born in Krasnoyarsk (1946). Began to study violin in Irkutsk with Mr. Gordin. Graduated from Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (1970). Post-graduate studies finished with Yuri Yankelevich (1973), who used to mark his student’s “versatile and large-minded personality having a great gift for music.” Soloist of the Moscow State Philharmonic (since 1969). Chairman of the Yuri Yankelevich Charity Foundation.

First Prize Laureate at the USSR Competition of Young Musicians (Moscow, 1965) and the Tchaikovsky International Competition (Moscow, 1966; later its frequent jury member). David Oistrakh, the Competition Jury’s Chairman, claimed the violinist’s talent as “a genuine discovery that captured everybody.” Artistic Director of Russia’s Chamber Orchestra (1983–91), formerly the USSR State Chamber Orchestra conducted by Rudolf Barshay (later renamed into the Moscow Chamber Orchestra). Artistic Director of the Munich Chamber Orchestra.

Viktor Tretyakov’s repertoire includes all Brahms’s, Tchaikovsky’s, Prokofiev’s and Shostakovich’s violin compositions, as well as numerous pieces by many other Russian and foreign composers.