Biography
Distinguished violinist, Music Director of the "Soloists of Saint-Petersburg" Chamber Ensemble.
Professor of the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory of Saint-Petersburg
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Michail Gantvarg, a leading violinist of St.Petersburg for the last few decades, is a very noticeable and original person in the music life of the city.
He has passed through quite a typical way for a modern artist.
After winning a first prize at the Paganini International Competition in his youth, he was combining an intensive concert work together with being a principal violin in the St.Petersburg Philarmony Symphonic Orchestra directed by Yury Temirkanov. Together with that, he has started his teaching career in the St.Petersburg State Conservatory.
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