Evgeny Sviridov
Russian-born violinist Evgeny Sviridov has succeeded both as a player of the modern violin and in historically informed performances. He is one of the few upcoming players to cultivate talents equally in both fields. Sviridov was born on February 17, 1989, in St. Petersburg. He told Jumpstart Jr.: "As my both parents are musicians I think the choice of me becoming a professional musician was already made before I was born." He studied both violin and piano as small child, beginning lessons on the former with Elena Bolotovskaya at age five. Sviridov was introduced to historical-performance thinking by his father, who, unusually for a Russian in the 1990s, had a large collection of recordings by historically oriented Western conductors. Nevertheless, he played modern violin, studying at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Pavel Popov. On a lark, he entered a Bach competition in Leipzig, Germany, and won. This stimulated him to explore new ways of playing Baroque music, and he began taking lesson with Russian violinist Andrey Reshetin. Sviridov believes that historical studies have influenced his interpretations of mainstream repertory as well. He has appeared with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Moscow Symphony orchestras. Sviridov won top prizes at the early music-oriented Concours Corneille in Rouen, France, and the Musica Antiqua Competition in Bruges, Belgium, and he began to attract attention in early music circles. In 2016 he was made concertmaster of the Concerto Köln ensemble and has lived in that city (Cologne) since then. In 2014 Sviridov and a group of other students also formed their own Baroque ensemble, Ludus Instrumentalis, which has won several prizes. Sviridov released an album of sonatas by Bach and Biber on the Genuin label in 2011, and in 2018 he signed to the Belgian label Ricercar and released an album of violin music by Tartini. He plays a Gagliano violin from the year 1732.
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Discography
6 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Johann Gottlieb Goldberg: Complete Trio Sonatas
Ludus Instrumentalis, Evgeny Sviridov
Classical - Released by Ricercar on 27 Aug 2021
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Tartini : Sonate Op. I
Evgeny Sviridov, Davit Melkonyan, Stanislav Gres
Chamber Music - Released by Ricercar on 21 Sep 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Concertos 4 Violins (Live)
Concerto Köln, Shunske Sato, Mayumi Hirasaki, Evgeny Sviridov, Jesús Merino-Ruiz
Classical - Released by Berlin Classics on 28 Aug 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Concertos
Evgeny Sviridov, Millenium Orchestra
Classical - Released by Ricercar on 2 Oct 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Sonatas by J.S. Bach and H.I.F. Biber (Johann Sebastian Bach - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber)
Classical - Released by Genuin on 17 Jun 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Josephus Andreas Fodor: String Quartet
Soloists of Catherine the Great, Evgeny Sviridov, Andrey Reshetin, Andrey Penyugin, Anna Burtseva
Classical - Released by ReachSound.Art on 20 Oct 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo