Boris Brovtsyn was born in Moscow in 1977 into a family with deep musical roots, and started to play the violin under the guidance of his grandfather, a pupil of Lev Zeitlin and Abram Yampolsky. He entered the famous Central Music School in 1984 and graduated with a bachelor degree in 1994 before becoming a student of Maya Glezarova at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He graduated with a diploma in 1999 and then was a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, studying with David Takeno. He made his first public appearance on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre at the age of six, and since then has performed in the main concert halls in Moscow, St Petersburg and other cities of Russia as well as in cities of the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union.
From an early age he has collaborated with such distinguished conductors as Alexander Lazarev, Konstantin Orbelian and Yuri Bashmet, performing with the Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Moscow State Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre National de Lille, BBC Philharmonic and Orchestre Philarmonique de Monte Carlo, to name just a few. His concert tours include performances in Germany (Alte Oper Hall, Frankfurt and Kölner Philarmonie, Cologne), France (UNESCO Congress Hall and Opéra Comique Theatre, Paris), Holland (Concertgebouw, Amsterdam), Austria (Palais Lobkovitz, Vienna) and Belgium (Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels), as well as appearances at the Edinburgh, Verbier, Ryedale, Mananan, Moscow "Homecoming" and Oxford Chamber Music Festivals.
Mr Brovtsyn has made many recordings for television and radio in Russia, Germany, Austria, France, South Africa, the United States (where he appeared in 1995) and, most notably, in Italy where Mr Brovtsyn performed in front of His Holiness John Paul II in September 1993.
His competition awards include prizes at the Georg Kulenkampf Violin Competition in Cologne, the Transnet International String Competition in Pretoria, South Africa, and the Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition, as well as first prize at the Tibor Varga Violin Competition in Switzerland. From 1992 to 1995 Mr Brovtsyn was a scholar of the Russian Culture Foundation (“New Names” charity programme). He was also a winner of the 2001 Reuters Prize, and was a finalist at the 2001 Queen Elizabeth Violin Competition.
Boris has performed three times with conductor John Gibbons and the Worthing Symphony Orchestra – the professional orchestra of West Sussex. He returns to the Assembly Hall, Worthing on the afternoon of Sunday 5th March 2006 to perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto again with the WSO conducted by John Gibbons.
November 2005