Evgeny Sviridov (violinist)

Evgeny Sviridov (born 1989) is a Russian violinist and academic teacher, based in Germany.

Life and career

Born in Saint Petersburg, Sviridov received early musical training first at the piano, then the violin. He studier violin at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He studied further the Baroque violin at the Musikhochschule Köln from 2015 to 2017. He won violin competitions already as a student, including the Yehudi-Menuhin in Cardiff, the Jascha Heifetz Competition in Vilnius, and the Premio Paganini in Genova. He won in 2010, still with the modern violin, the Leipzig Bach Competition, in 2016 and 2017 first prizes and the audience prize at the Concours Corneille Rouen and Musica Antiqua Bruges in Bruges. In 2018, he received the Förderpreis of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Beginning in 2015, Sviridov has been concertmaster for Concerto Köln. He has also collaborated with Ensemble 1700 and the Bremer Barockorchester, among others. He founded and lead the ensemble Ludus Instrumentalis. He played as soloist and ensemble player at festivals including Bachfest Leipzig, Thüringer Bachwochen and in Potsdam, Cremona and Brussel, in halls such as the Concertgebouw, Kölner Philharmonie and Konzerthaus Berlin.

He recorded works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber in 2011, sonatas by Antonio Vivaldi, and in 2018, and five violin concertos by Giuseppe Tartini in 2020.

Svididov has lectured Baroque violin at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen from 2018.

He has played a violin built by Gennaro Gagliano in Neapel in 1732. It was given to him on loan in 2015 by the Amsterdam foundation Jumpstart. His modern violin was built by Paolo Leonori in Rome in 1970.

Weblinks

• "Evgeny Sviridov". HFK Bremen. Archived from the original on 2020-12-03. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
• "Evgeny Sviridov". Concerto Köln. Archived from the original on 2020-12-03. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
• "Evgeny Sviridov (Kurzbiografie)". Archived from the original on 2020-12-03. Retrieved 2020-12-03.