X International Violoncello
Festival VIVACELLO

Boris Andrianov, a renowned Russian cellist, performs in the world's top venues and at most prestigious festivals. While having an extensive touring schedule, the artist is also keen on performing in Russia, whether in big cities, small towns or remote villages that had never seen any concerts at all. He has also participated in many international and national projects aimed at expanding the country’s musical landscapes, especially in Russian provinces. Invariably enjoying great success with the public, those projects bring together internationally renowned performers along with Boris Andrianov himself. 

Boris Andrianov was born in Moscow in 1976. He studied at the Gnessin Music School (class of Vera Birina), Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (class of Professor Natalia Shakhovskaya) and Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin (class of Professor David Geringas).

He was the winner of Antonio Janigro international competition in Zagreb as well as competitions in Johannesburg, Hanover (Shostakovich Classiсa Nova Competition, as part of a duo with Alexey Goribol), Paris (Mstislav Rostropovich competition), and South Korea (Isang Yun competition). He was also a prize-winner at the 11th International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Triumph Youth Award, and was titled Honored Artist of Russia in 2016. 

Boris Andrianov has performed with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Fedoseev, Yury Simonov, Pavel Kogan, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alexander Vedernikov, Gianandrea Noseda, Dmitry Liss, Roman Kofman, Vasily Petrenko, Stefan Vladar, Dmitri Jurowski, and Alexander Sladkovsky. In chamber performances, he has played alongside Yury Bashmet, Menahem Pressler, Akiko Suwanai, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, Itamar Golan, Denis Matsuev, Sergey Nakaryakov, Vadim Repin, Maxim Vengerov, Alexey Lyubimov, Tatiana Grindenko, to name a few. 

The musician has participated in the Royal Swedish Festival, as well as in Ludwigsburg and Schleswig-Holstein festivals (Germany), festivals in Edinburgh (Scotland), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Colmar (France), Davos (Switzerland), Irkutsk (Stars on Baikal), Trans-Siberian Art Festival and others. He is also a regular guest of the Homecoming chamber music festival in Moscow. 

Boris Andrianov heads The Generation of Stars, a nation-wide project that has been awarded the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation (2009). He also initiated Vivacello and Vivarte international festivals in Moscow and has been artistic director for both. In addition, he is the artistic director of Musical Expedition festival, that was founded in the Vladimir region and has been expanding every year. In 2021, the festival covered six Russian regions, including Udmurtia, Vologda and Novosibirsk regions, Crimea and Kamchatka. 

Widely collaborating with contemporary composers, Boris Andrianov has repeatedly presented premieres of new works, including those by Giya Kancheli, Krzysztof Penderecki, Efrem Podgaits, Michael Berkeley, Richard Dubugnon, Alexander Rosenblatt, Giovanni Sollima, Vangelis, Alexey Rybnikov, Pavel Karmanov, Samuel Strouk, Alexey Shor and others. 

The artist's discography includes a joint recording with guitarist Dmitry Illarionov, released by Delos (in 2003 the record was included in the long list of Grammy nominees in Chamber Ensemble category); Sonatas by Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff with pianist Rem Urasin (named the best chamber disc of the month by Gramophone in September 2007), and sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord by J. S. Bach transcribed for cello and button accordion, recorded with Yuri Medianik (released by Melodiya, 2015). In 2020–2021 he recorded Variations on Rococo Theme by Tchaikovsky with the State Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan under Alexander Sladkovsky (Sony Classics), Gabriel Prokofiev's Cello Concerto with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra under Alexey Bogorad (world premiere of the recording) as well as the Jazz Reflections of Bach Suites with Leonid and Nick Vintskevich, as well as all cello suites by J.S. Bach (the release is scheduled for 2022). 

Since 2009 Boris Andrianov has been teaching at the Moscow Conservatory. The artist plays a cello made by Carlo Bergonzi from the State Collection of Unique Musical Instruments.

Maxim Rysanov is undoubtedly one of the world’s best and most charismatic viola players.

He is regularly invited to perform as a soloist and chamber musician in the UK and abroad and has been a guest at many prestigious festivals including Lockenhaus, Cheltenham, Spitalfields, Newbury, Aldeburgh, Brighton, Homecoming and Crescendo. He works regularly with prestigious artists such as Gidon Kremer, Maxim Vengerov, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, Mischa Maisky, Viktoria Mullova, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Lev Markiz, Giya Kancheli, ASCH Trio, Razumovsky Ensemble and others.

Originally from the Ukraine he is now based in London after having studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and prior to that at the Central Special Music School in Moscow. He is a prize-winner of several major international awards, including the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, the Guildhall Gold Medal, Valentino Bucchi International Viola Competition, Carmel international Chamber Music Competition, Haverhill Symphonia Soloist Competition and most recently the prestigious Geneva Competition.

Maxim has always given a big part of his creative energies to promoting new music. Several works have been dedicated to him, including works by Dobrinka Tabakova and Elena Langer and more recently he was invited to perform the world premiere of a new Duo Concertante work for viola and cello by Artyom Vassiliev at the Spitalfields Festival with the Britten Sinfonia.

This season’s highlights include a performance of the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with the London Mozart Players on Mozart’s 250 birth day anniversary, a tour of Australia with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and a premiere performance of Styx by Kancheli with the Liepaja Orchestra and Chorus “Kamer…” in Latvia. Additionally he has appeared at the Bergen Festival, Utrecht Festival, West Cork Chamber Festival, and Julian Rachlin & Friends Festival in Dubrovnik, where he performed Vivaldi Concerto for 4 violins along other stars - Jansen, Rachlin and Vengerov. This season Maxim also toured Europe with Viktoria Mullova Ensemble. Since 2005, Maxim is a member of the renowned chamber music series, Spectrum Concerts Berlin, which takes place in the Kammermusik saal of the Berlin Philharmonie.

In the forthcoming season Maxim will make his debut in Japan and China in a chamber project with Julian Rachlin and Mischa Maisky and also perform the Mozart Sinfonie Concertante with Augustin Dumay and the Orchestre Royale de Wallonie at the Beijing Festival. He will also make his orchestral debut in Germany performing the Bartok Concerto for Viola with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland Pfalz and Tamas Vasary and perform an arrangement of the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Rouse Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria.

Future recording plans a debut recital disc with Evelyn Chang on the Avie label and recording of chamber programme with Janine Jansen for Decca. Both are scheduled for 2007.

After a conducting fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music and winning the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s Young Conductor scheme, Maxim also has a burgeoning career as a conductor. Most recently he directed a performance of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf with Sir Roger Moore in Dubrovnik. In December 2006 Maxim will conduct Stravinsky Soldier’s Tale in Utrecht.

Maxim is delighted to have a Giuseppe Guadagnini (1780) viola on extended loan from an anonymous donor.

A soloist of the Moscow State Philharmonic and a prize-winner at international competitions, the young pianist Philipp Kopachevsky had won tremendous audience admiration and acclaim by the age of twenty-three. He regularly appears in recital in Great Britain, Germany, the USA, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Greece, Poland and Spain as well as throughout Russia. Kopachevsky has won particular popularity in Japan, where especially for NHK TV he recorded a disc of piano music by Chopin. 

Philipp Kopachevsky was born in Moscow in 1990. He graduated from the Central School of Music of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. He is currently a student at the Moscow Conservatoire (class of Professor Sergei Dorensky). He has been a prize-winner at eight prestigious international competitions, among them the Х International Franz Schubert Piano Competition (Germany).

The musician has performed with the world’s great orchestras, among them English Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre in Moscow, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra, Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra and the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St Petersburg Philharmonic. He has collaborated with such illustrious conductors as Mstislav Rostropovich, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Mikhail Pletnev, Yevgeny Kolobov, Yuri Simonov, Alexander Dmitriev, Andrew Gourlay, William Noll, Bjarte Engeset, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, Yevgeny Bushkov, Maxim Vengerov, Paul Watkins, Jan Latham-Koenig, Dorian Wilson and Dmitry Liss among others. 

Philipp Kopachevsky has appeared at numerous international festivals, such as the Andrei Sakharov Festival (Nizhny Novgorod), the Vera Lotar-Shevchenko Memorial Competition (Novosibirsk), the Steinway Festival, the Miami Piano Festival, the Arts Naples World Festival (USA), the Colmar International Festival (France), the Mstislav Rostropovich Memorial Festival (Baku), the Baltic Seasons festival (Kaliningrad), Vladimir Spivakov Invites, Stars on Baikal, Crescendo and Denis Matsuev Invites among numerous others. 

Philipp Kopachevsky performed at the world premiere of choreographer Benjamin Millepied’s ballet Without at the Mariinsky Theatre. He is involved in the Moscow State Philharmonic’s project Stars of the 21st Century. Previous engagements include concerts at the Moscow Conservatoire and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and appearances with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia under Jan Latham-Koenig, the State Academic Symphony Cappella of Russia under Philipp Chizhevsky and the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra under Terje Mikkelsen.