Alexander Sitkovetsky (born 1983) is a British violinist.
Alexander Sitkovetsky (born 1983) is a British violinist.
Sitkovetsky was born in Moscow to a musical family; his father being guitarist and composer Alexander Sitkovetsky of the Autograph fame, mother Olga Sitkovetsky being a pianist, he is the nephew of violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky.
Aged eight, he appeared as a soloist in Montpellier, and he was subsequently invited to enroll at the Yehudi Menuhin School. He studied there with Natalya Boyarskaya and Hu Kun. He has participated in master classes with Yehudi Menuhin, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Mauricio Fuks, György Pauk, Maya Glezarova, Zvi Zeitlin, Abram Stern, Oleksandr Semchuk, and Maxim Vengerov. Sitkovetsky is still studying, under Pavel Vernikov in Vienna.
Sitkovetsky performs as a soloist around the world and also records. He is part of the Sitkovetsky Trio. [1]
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