Viktor Viktorovich Tretyakov

Viktor Viktorovich Tretyakov ( Russian Виктор Викторович Третьяков ; born October 17, 1946 in Krasnoyarsk , Siberia ) is a Russian violinist and conductor.

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He was born into a family of musicians. At a young age he discovered his talent and love for his violin . From 1965 Viktor Tretyakov studied at the Moscow Conservatory of Music in the class of Prof. Yuri Yankelevich , who promoted his talent in an outstanding way, because in the same year Tretyakov won the Union competition for violin and thus received a diploma of the first degree. A year later, the violinist won first prize and the associated gold medal in the international Tchaikovsky competition, which fueled his fame. In 1968 Tretyakov first appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic. This was followed by concerts as part of the Berlin and Vienna Festival Weeks, as a soloist at the Salzburg Festival in 1976 , as well as numerous concert tours to the USA and Canada, including with the New York Philharmonic , the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Philadelphia Orchestra , the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra , the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra . He has also performed with other world-famous orchestras such as the Berlin , Vienna and Munich Philharmonics , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , Orchester de Paris , NHK Symphony Orchestra , the London Symphony Orchestra , the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra . He worked and works with conductors such as Rostropovich, Ormandy, Temirkanov, Jochum, Krips, Gergiev, Fedoseyev, Maazel, Kempe, Yansons, Järvi, Levine, Mehta, Penderecki, Previn, Kondrashin and Pletnev.

In 1983 he was appointed chief conductor of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, with which he worked for over a decade. From 1986 to 1994 he chaired the jury in the international Tchaikovsky competition. He has also made a name for himself as a chamber music partner of Svyatoslav Richter , Rostropovich , Oleg Kagan and the Borodin Quartet . He is also a juror at numerous competitions in Brussels, Hanover, Sendai, Moscow, Helsinki and many other classical music competitions. His students include Ilya Kaler, Sergei Stadler, Evgeny Bushkov, Natalia Likhopoi (Glazunov Quartet), Dmitri Berlinsky, Abel Tomas Realp (Cuarteto Casals) and Roberto Cani (New Hollywood String Quartet). Together with Yuri Bashmet , Vassily Lobanov and Natalia Gutman , he founded a piano quartet that performs regularly across Europe. In 1996 Victor Tretyakov was offered a professorship at the Cologne University of Music , which he then accepted and where he is now teaching. His numerous recordings have appeared on Melodiya, Sony / BMG, Brillant Classics, Live Classics, Yedang Classics, Relief, Olympia, Russian Revelation, Weitblick Records and DVDs on TDK and Poloarts.

Web links

• Works by and about Wiktor Wiktorowitsch Tretyakov in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait on clublions.eu
• Brief portrait