Nikita Boriso-Glebsky

  • Violin
“Boriso-Glebsky is an astounding instrumentalist, with a prodigious technical armoury and an uncompromising artistic vision.” — Weekend Special, 2018

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky was born in 1985 in Volgodonsk. He graduated Moscow State Conservatory and its PhD program (class of professor Eduard Grach and assistant professor Tatiana Berkul). He then improved his technique under the supervision of Augustin Dumay in Brussels and Ana Chumachenko in Kronberg.

He participated in international masterclass Keshet Eilon in Israel under the patronage of Shlomo Mintz.

Nikita is a winner and a laureate of many international competitions including: the Yampolsky International Violin Competition (2002, 3rd prize), the International Competition for Violin in Kloster Schöntal (2003, 1st prize), the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition (2006, laureate), the Moscow International David Oistrakh Violin Competition (2007, 1st prize), the International Tchaikovsky Competition (2007, 2nd prize), the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels (2009, 5th prize). In 2010 he won first prize at both the International Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna and the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki.

His stage partners include Rodion Shchedrin, Natalia Gutman, Yury Bashmet, András Schiff, Nikolai Lugansky, Boris Berezovsky, Vadim Repin, Alexandr Knyazev, Mao Fujita and many others.

Nikita pays particular attention to the music of modern authors and composers of the XX century. He was the first to perform several compositions by Rodion Shchedrin, Alexandr Tchaikovsky, Kuzma Bodrov.

In 2018 record label Profil (Germany) issued an anthology of Nikolai Medtner’s violin and piano compositions performed by Nikita Boriso-Glebsky and Ekaterina Derzhavina. It was highly praised by the international critics. Another recording of previously unreleased Violin Concerto of Eugène Ysaÿe has already been granted the prestigious Diapason d’Or Prize.

Nikita plays the violin made by Matteo Goffriller in the 1720s. In 2018, he was awarded the prestigious title Honored Artist of Russia.