Boris Berezovsky, Sergey Krylov,
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Liss

Boris Berezovsky has established a remarkable reputation, both as the most powerful of virtuoso pianists and as a musician of unique insight and sensitivity.

Born in Moscow in 1969, Boris Berezovsky studied at the Moscow Conservatoire with Eliso Virsaladze and privately with Alexander Satz. Following his London début at the Wigmore Hall in 1988, The Times described him as "an artist of exceptional promise, a player of dazzling virtuosity and formidable power"; two years later that promise was fulfilled when he won the Gold Medal at the 1990 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Boris Berezovsky works regularly as concerto soloist with orchestras including the Concertgebouw, Philharmonia Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Hamburg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper, Hessischer Rundfunk, Russian National Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and with conductors such as Kurt Masur, Charles Dutoit, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alezander Lazarev, Andrew Litton, Mikhail Pletnev, Antonio Pappano etc.

Boris Berezovsky’s recent recordings of the complete Beethoven Concerti with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra with Thomas Dausgaard have been greeted with high critical acclaim. He has also made a considerable number of records for Teldec including solo discs of works by Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Medtner, Ravel, the complete Liszt Transcendental Studies and concertos by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Liszt. His recording of the Rachmaninov Sonata was awarded the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and his Ravel disc was specially recommended by Le Monde de la Musique, Diapason, BBC Music Magazine and the Independent on Sunday. He released a live DVD of Liszt’s Transcendental Studies taken from a performance at La Roque d’Antheron for Naive. Mr Berezovsky embarked on a collaboration with Warner Classics with his CD of piano trios with Dmitri Makhtin and Alexander Kniazev, and his most recent recording of the Chopin/Godowsky’s Etudes received high critical acclaim winning the instrumental category of the first BBC Music Magazine Awards.

In recital and as a chamber musician Boris Berezovsky performs regularly in recital series and festivals world-wide. His forthcoming performances include a return to the QEH International Piano Series, the Concertgebouw, La Roque d’Antheron, Ruhr Piano Festival, Les Folles Journées de Nantes, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Megaron, Athens and Symphony Hall, Birmingham amongst others. He has a noted duo partnership with violinist Vadim Repin and Brigitte Engerer, and his piano trio performs throughout Europe at the highest level.

Effervescent musicianship, intense lyricism and beguiling tonal beauty belong to the qualities that have secured Sergej Krylov’s place among today’s most renowned performers. The Russian-born violinist directs breath-taking virtuosity to reveal profound expressive insights into the works in his strikingly broad repertoire.

«Sergej Krylov transfixed the house, fiddling with the kind of effortless lyricism, liquid flow and mercurial tones that distinguish the best violinists» observed THE TIMES, following last year performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko.

A regular guest with several major institutions and world’s leading orchestras, Sergej Krylov has appeared with, among others, the St Petersburg Philharmonic, London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic orchestras, Russian National Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, DSO Berlin, the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Budapest Festival Orchestra, NHK Symphony Tokyo, Staatskapelle Dresden.

Among the prominent personalities with whom he has worked, Krylov’s friendship with Mstislav Rostropovich stands among the most important influences on his artistic life. Over the past decade he has collaborated with many leading conductors, from Mikhail Pletnev, Dmitri Kitajenko, Vasily Petrenko, Valery Gergiev, Andrey Boreyko and Vladimir Jurowski to Fabio Luisi, Roberto Abbado, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dmitry Liss, Yuri Bashmet and Michał Nesterowicz.

Recent and forthcoming highlights of Sergej Krylov’s 2018/19 season include performances of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Russian National Orchestra/M. Pletnev and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/M. Alsop, Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/S. Kochanovsky and Qatar Philharmonic/D. Kitajenko, Paganini’s Concerto n. 1 with the St Petersburg Philharmonic/C. Dutoit and Charlotte Symphony/R. Abbado next to concerts with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Zagreb and Belgrade Philharmonic, the BBC Philharmonic, the Ural Philharmonic/Dmitry Liss and many others.

As Music Director of the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra since 2008, Sergej Krylov loves assuming the dual role of soloist and conductor in a wide repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary music. Major engagements in 2018-19 include an important event at MUPA concert hall in Budapest, live recorded for TV and radio broadcast along with concerts in Italy, Poland, France and Lithuania.

Sergej Krylov devotes much time to chamber music projects, playing in partnership with pianists Denis Matsuev, Nikolai Lugansky, Boris Berezovsky, Itamar Golan, Michail Lifits and in larger chamber groups with artists such as Elena Bashkirova, Yuri Bashmet, Maxim Rysanov, Alexander Kniazev.

Born into a family of musicians in Moscow in 1970, Sergej Krylov began studying the violin at the age of five and completed his training at the Moscow Central School of Music. His international breakthrough came with first prize-winning success at the International Violin Competition “Rodolfo Lipizer”, the Stradivarius International Violin Competition and the Fritz Kreisler Competition.

In addition to early recordings for Melodiya and EMI, Krylov’s discography includes two recent releases on Deutsche Grammophon: the first, a recording of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons in the role of soloist and conductor with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the second, an album devoted to Paganini’s 24 Capricci. Both albums attracted critical plaudits. Last season Sergej Krylov premiered Ezio Bosso’s Violin Concerto with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Fenice, recorded live under the composer’s direction and released by SONY Classical. He recently recorded the Violin Concerto Metamorphosen under Krzysztof Penderecki’s direction as part of a landmark project to record the Polish composer’s complete works.

Founded in 1936, Ural Philharmonic Orchestra is a Russian symphony orchestra, marveled nationally and abroad for its superb performing quality and flexibility in acquiring new repertoire. The orchestra consists of more than 100 musicians and performs all major Western European and Russian works from the classical and romantic periods, as well as works by contemporary composers. 

The Ural Philharmonic Orchestra is based in Yekaterinburg, the 4th largest Russian city (population: 1,5 mln) situated in the Ural region. Before the Covid-19 crisis, the Orchestra performed over 100 concerts and more than 70 programs per year, both at its domicile, the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Hall, and on its numerous national and international tours. Thanks to the Philharmonic’s innovative Digital Concert Hall capacities, audiences in the remote and rural areas have regular access to the Orchestra’s concerts streamed into the region’s public libraries and cultural centres.

Led by the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Dmitry Liss who has headed the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra since 1995, the Orchestra accomplished over 20 international tours, including those in Spain, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Japan, China, Czech Republic and the United States, having performed in the Pleyel, Berlin Philharmonic, Arsenal, Debussy Hall, Corum Opera Berlioz, Palais des Congrès de Paris, Beethovenhalle, Wiener Konzerthaus, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Elbphilharmonie, Brucknerhaus Linz, Stefaniensaal, Royal Concertgebouw, Auditorio de Murcia, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Tokyo International Forum, Culture and Congress Center in Switzerland, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Tonhalle and Victoria Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Concert Hall and New Stage of the Mariinsky Theater, and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. 

Over the years, the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra has worked with many outstanding Russian and foreign musicians, including conductors Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Leif Segerstam, Krzysztof Penderecki, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Fedoseev, Alexander Lazarev, Dmitry Kitaenko, Valery Gergiev, Klaus Tennstedt, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Inoue Michiyoshi, Hans Jorg Albrecht, Fabio Mastrangelo, Eliahu Inbal, Andrey Boreiko, Guintaras Rinkevisius, Dimitris Botinis, and soloists – Mstislav Rostropovich, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Boris Berezovsky, Denis Matsuev, Freddy Kempf, Nikolai Lugansky, Yuri Bashmet, Nikolai Petrov, Vadim Repin, Sergey Krylov, Alexander Knyazev, Boris Andrianov, Viktor Tretyakov, Elisso Virsaladze, Natalia Gutman, Liana Isakadze, Peter Donohoe, Antje Weithaas, Olga Borodina, Alena Baeva, Benjamin Grosvenor, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Henri Demarquette, Olga Peretyatko, Behzod Abduraimov, Dmitry Masleev, Vadym Kholodenko and others. 

The Orchestra participated in numerous international festivals such as Beethovenfest Bonn, Bodenseefestival, La Folle Journée, Le Festival de Radio France, Festival International de Piano à la Roque d’Anthéron, Le Festival de Musique Classique à Saint-Riquier, Nuits de la Citadelle à Sisteron, Festival of Symphony Orchestras of the World, Harbin Summer Music Festival, Boris Berezovsky Festival, Kissinger Sommer, Rheingau Musik Festival and others. In 2016 Ural Philharmonic Orchestra was invited to perform together with the Harbin Symphony Orchestra, at the United Nations European Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. 

The Orchestra discography encounters 36 CDs with Sony Classical, Warner Classics International, and Mirare record labels. Their Russian Light album (Sony Classical, 2018) with soprano Olga Peretyatko is the ICMA (2017) nominee and winner of OPUS Klassik Award (2018). 2020/21 saw the Signum Classics release of Gabriel Prokofiev’s concertos recorded by Ural Philharmonic Orchestra under Aleksey Bogorad with Branford Marsalis (saxophone), Boris Andrianov (cello), Joby Burgess (bass drum) and DJ Mr. Switch (turntables). 

The Orchestra’s concerts were aired by leading broadcasters, including Radio Russia, Radio France, France Musique, TV ARTE, NHK and Kultura. In 2020 the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Dmitry Liss received the prestigious national Music Critics Award “for the boldness and conceptuality of the symphonic programs of the 2019/20 season, including the Turangalîla-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen and The Raft of the Medusa by Hans Werner Henze”. 

The Orchestra regularly commissions works from acclaimed contemporary composers. In different years UPO collaborated with Toshio Hosokawa, Ivan Fedele, Alexander Tchaikovsky, Leonid Desyatnikov, René Koering, Eun-Hwa Cho, Anton Batagov, and Olga Viktorova. The Orchestra is a proud owner of rare string instruments by Bergonzi, Gragnani and Vuillaume purchased with support from the Philharmonic Orchestra Fund established in 1996.

Дмитрий Лисс родился в 1960 году в Саратовской области. В 1979 году окончил Харьковскую среднюю специализированную музыкальную школу, в 1984 году – Московскую государственную консерваторию имени П. И. Чайковского по специальности «оперно-симфоническое дирижирование» (класс профессора Дмитрия Китаенко). Профессиональную карьеру начал в 1983–1984 гг. в качестве ассистента Дмитрия Китаенко в возглавляемом им оркестре Московской филармонии. 

С 1984 года начал сотрудничество с Симфоническим оркестром Кузбасса, в 1991–1995 гг. был главным дирижером коллектива. В 1995 году стал победителем Международного конкурса дирижеров имени Ловро фон Матачича в Загребе (Хорватия). С 1995 года – художественный руководитель и главный дирижер Уральского академического филармонического оркестра. Под управлением Дмитрия Лисса оркестр гастролирует во многих странах, принимает участие в престижных международных фестивалях, записал более 30 альбомов.

В 1997–1999 гг. – главный российский дирижер Российско-Американского молодежного симфонического оркестра, в 1999–2003 гг. – дирижер Российского национального оркестра. В 2016–2021 гг. – главный дирижер Филармонического оркестра Южных Нидерландов. 

Сотрудничал с Госоркестром России имени Е. Ф. Светланова, Большим симфоническим оркестром имени П. И. Чайковского, Академическим симфоническим оркестром Московской филармонии, Национальным филармоническим оркестром России, Заслуженным коллективом России Академическим симфоническим оркестром Санкт-Петербургской филармонии, Национальным оркестром Франции, Бергенским филармоническим оркестром, оркестрами Северных Нидерландов, Нидерландского радио и Королевским оркестром «Резиденси» в Гааге, Тонкюнстлер-оркестром в Вене, Словенским филармоническим, оркестром вещательной корпорации NHK в Токио, Токийским столичным симфоническим оркестром, филармоническими оркестрами Осаки и Нагойи, Оркестром южнокорейской телерадиокомпании KBS, Тихоокеанским симфоническим оркестром, национальными оркестрами Венгрии и Эстонии, Литовским государственным симфоническим оркестром и др. 

С 2011 года – художественный руководитель Международного музыкального фестиваля «Евразия», проводимого Свердловской филармонией, где осуществил ряд российских и мировых премьер. 

Народный артист Российской Федерации (2011), лауреат Государственной премии РФ в области литературы и искусства «за выдающийся вклад в развитие филармонической деятельности» (2008).