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Boris Kuschnir (born 1948) is a Soviet Austrian violinist
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Boris Kuschnir (born 1948) is a Soviet Austrian violinist
Born in Kiev in 1948, he studied violin with Boris Beleňkiy at the Moscow Conservatoire and chamber music with Valentin Berlinsky [1] of the Borodin Quartet.
His many encounters with Dmitri Shostakovich (working on his last quartets) and David Oistrakh, with whom he also studied, had a lasting influence on his artistic development. His career started in 1969 when he was one of the three winners of the Allunions-Competition in Leningrad where, in the final, he performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Yuri Temirkanov. In 1970 he founded the Moscow String Quartet and remained a member until 1979.
In 1982 he became an Austrian citizen and was the first concertmaster of the Bruckner Orchestra in Linz until 1983. He was appointed professor at the Konservatorium Wien University in 1984 and became a distinguished professor at the University of Music in Graz in 1999. [2]
He co-founded the Wiener Schubert Trio in 1984, [3] the Vienna Brahms Trio in 1993 and the Kopelman Quartet in 2002.
Several of Kuschnir's students were successful at international violin competitions:[ citation needed ]
Kuschnir gives masterclasses at renowned classical music events like the Verbier Festival Academy and Kronberg Academy. He was a jury member of at the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition in Brussels, Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Niccolò Paganini Competition in Genua, the Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris, Joseph Joachim Competition in Hannover, Tibor Varga Competition in Switzerland, Michael Hill Competition in New Zealand, Eurovision Competition, David Oistrakh Competition in Moscow, Pablo de Sarasate Competition in Pamplona, George Enescu Competition in Bucharest, Seoul International Music Competition, Violin Masters in Monte Carlo, ARD International Music Competition in Munich, Louis Spohr Competition in Weimar, Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition in Fermo, Aram Khachaturian International Competition in Jerewan, the Yankelevitch International Violin Competition in Omsk and the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.[ citation needed ]
In 1984 Boris Kuschnir founded the Wiener Schubert Trio.[ citation needed ]
Kuschnir founded the Vienna Brahms Trio in 1993.[ citation needed ]
He was co-founder of the Kopelman Quartet in 2002.[ citation needed ]
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