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A short description of my career path
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Music started for me in early
childhood when I realized that I wanted to play the instrument
myself. The first thing I did after waking up - was taking the
violin in my hands. Friends and parents tried to get me out to
walk, but with no success as I was very occupied with playing
violin. Nobody was making me doing this, that was solely my
temptation. Just like today.
I studied with my uncle in musical
school and that was the time when I first got the feeling of
success performing in children's concerts and winning
competitions. I was born in deep USSR province (this is now a part
of Ukraine), so my next big milestone was study in Kiev, large city
and now capital of Ukraine. I took my chances to move to Kiev just
after winning big competition when I was 13.

Still that was not good enough me
either and I was dreaming about studying with famous violinist and
teacher David Oistrakh in Moscow. Sometimes dreams
come true and that was exactly my case: I got the phone number of a
great master and gave him a ring. Surprisingly easy he agreed to
have an audition which was scheduled on 1st of January.
I played Sibelius concert and
Bach's sonata, but after that Oistrakh asked to play simple scales.
I still think that was the thing that made the trick. Scales are
irreplaceable for every violinist, nothing can be done without
them. The decision came quick - I was invited to join the class of
just 10 people from the whole USSR. That was my happy new year.

Here I was, in Moscow
conservatoire. Moscow amazed me by its culture life. It was like a
big discovery for me, I attended every single concert I could,
tried to absorb the spirit of conservatoire, because it was one of
the best in the world at the time. David Oistrakh's lessons
attracted a lot of people, including famouse musicans, therefore
each time it was like a mini-concert.
In 1974 D.Oistrakh passed away and
I found myself at the crossroads. I had to move on and
continue with my study and the fate let me meet one of the oldest
tutor of the conservatoire - Boris Belenky. I learned really a lot
of thing from him before I graduated.
My post-graduate study has been on
two subjects: quartet and performace. Those years I have been
especially interested in chamber genre, so I became a professional
quartet performer. This period of time in my life has been marked
by numerous international competitions, where in most cases I was
given a top awards.
Long period of time my life was all
about work in Moscow Philharmonic society. Tour after tour across
country and abroad with whole series of concerts - that was what I
have been doing for years in 70s and 80s. Another remarkable result
of that time are two issued CDs.
In 1992 I started teaching
in Gnesin special musical school.
This is the school-college specifically devoted to
teaching gifted children 5-18 years of age. Since I've started
working there a lot of students of mine have graduated and become a
laureates of different competitions. Since 2007 I work in Moscow conservatoire as a
seniour tutor.
I always think there's so much more
that can be done, therefore I founded the musical charity named after
D.Oistrakh that was an organizer of the young violinist's
competition in Moscow. Up to the moment the competition has been
held three times and I hope it will have a long history.
Many of my students achieve a big
success. Just to mention a few (more all students here):
Nikita Borisoglebsky who won a number of competitions, including
2nd place on Chakovsky competition and 5th place on Elisabeth's
competition in Belgium in 2009; Maria Shamshina who is currently
studying in Zurich; Marianna Terteryan, laureate of many
competitions - she performs solo and lives in China; Dmitry Hahamov
who won grand-prix on the competition in Fermo, Italy; the youngest
of my students - Anna Savkina, won several competitions including
the one named after Schpor in Weimar, Germany.
I have regular master-classes in
Austria, China and Croatia.