Yury Revich

"full-blooded authority, fleet-fingered dexterity, innate musicality and substantial accuracy..." -The Strad www.yuryrevich.com Young Artist of the Year 2015 by the International Classical Music Awards and winner of the "Young Musician of the Year" award by Beethoven Center Vienna , at only 24 years of age, Yury Revich already is a very mature and serious artist. He is one of the most expressive musicians of his generation and is based in Vienna, Austria. Whenever he is not at performances in all corners of the world – in 2009, he played his debut at Carnegie Hall and in 2013 at La Scala, Milan, he has performed at the Berlin Konzerthaus, Vienna Musikverein, Vienna Konzerthaus, Zürich Tonhalle, Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Metropolitan Art Space Tokyo,Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Cadogan Hall London as well as the Preston Bradley Hall in Chicago and many others, and can be heard at many international festivals – Yury tries to use his music for charitable events. Together with the European-Russian Society for International Cooperation, where Yury functions as Artistic Director, he organized a concert in Vienna in 2011 for the victims of the tsunami in Japan. Additionally, he collaborates with the organisation „Kleine Herzen“ that helps Russian and Ukranian children. In 2015 he organized the First Austrian Gala Charity "All for Autism", and in September 2015 performs in the WDR summer night concert at the Gerry Weber Stadion broadcasted internationally. Yury also lives out his creativity in the film medium: He is practicing to direct and to act and has already produced a short film of his own. He records for Sony Classical, ARS, Odradek and OnePointFM , WDR, BR, Radio France, among many other European and American radio and television networks. His CDs are on playlist of Lufthansa flights and leading radio stations. Yury is artist in residence of Aurora Star Festival, Bad Ragaz Festival etc. Yury Revich is very versatile in his works: he finds it fascinating to play baroque music on historical instruments – for example with the harpsichordist Olga Fillipova – but equally enjoys working with modern influences. In order to fully expand on his repertoire, Yury also plays as a chamber musician in ensembles with renowned artists such as Massimo Quatra, Gary Hoffman, Liana Isakadze, Lawrence Dutton, Robert McDuffie, Daniil Trifonov and others. In 2015 Yury launched a new international concert cycle in Vienna "Friday Nights with Yury Revich" with artists like Paul Badura-Skoda, Alexey Igudesman, Kotaro Fukuma and many other celebrities taking part. As a soloist with an orchestra, Yury performs with many Orchestras, including Svetlanov State Symphony, La Verdi Milano, North-West Deutsche Philarmonie, Il Pomeriggi Musicale, Zagreb Soloists, Russian National, Moscow Soloists and collaborates with conductors like Yuri Bashmet, Mikhail Pletnev, Zhang Xian, Gintaras Rinkevicius, Yuri Simonov, Justus Frantz and others. Since 2008, Yury has been playing on a violin that was specifically built for him by the French master luthier Alan Karbonar, and now playing on a Balestrieri from 1783 which was generously placed at his disposal by the Goh Family Foundation in Singapore and the Amadeus International School in Vienna. Moreover, he was accorded the honor of performing on a Duke Alba Stradivari and a Guarneri del Gesu Ex-Max Rostal that were furnished by the Stradivari Society. He is the Music Ambassador of the Amadeus Vienna International and Beethoven Center Vienna. Yury Revich started playing the violin at age five and now studying with Prof. Pavel Vernikov. He comes from a dynasty of violinists: his father, grandfather and greatgrandfather were all dedicated to the string instrument. When Yury turned seven, he entered the Central Music Acadamy of the Moscow Conservatory as a student of Galina Turchaninova. Between 2005 and 2009, he studied under V. Pickaizen and then went to the Vienna Conservatory in 2009, where he is being taught by Pavel Vernikov. Furthermore, his teachers included Yury's father, A. Revich and V. Vorona. In Vienna, during his studies in Vienna Conservatory, Yury Revich founded the young quartet „Quatuor du Soleil“ which, next to classical music, also plays romantic, baroque and contemporary pieces. Yury is professor at the WOM academy Spain. UPCOMING CONCERTS November-December 2015 include Concertos in Auditorium Milano, Smetana Hall Prague, Berliner Philarmonie, Gewandhaus Leipzig.