Andrey Zubenko (violin)

SOLIST OF FEBRUARY 2023. INTERVIEW. 

Andrey was born in Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region (Ural region of Russia) in 2000. He started to learn music at the Children's School of Music No. 1 named after  Rimsky-Korsakov in Nizhny Tagil in the class of tutor Lilia Kozlova. He then graduated from the Ural Special Music School in the class of Honored Worker of Culture Irina Mezrina. Since 2019, he is pursuing his studies at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservaroty in the class of People's Artist of Russia, Professor Vladimir Ivanov.
 
Laureate of the competitions

2015

• Laureate of the 7th Demidov International Youth Violin Competition in Yekaterinburg, 2015.

2017

• The winner (Gold medal) in the 16th Youth Delphic Games of Russia in Yekaterinburg.
• The winner (Gold medal) in the Twelfth Youth Delphic Games of the CIS Member States in Yekaterinburg.

 
He took part in master classes by Rollo Kovac, Alexander Trostyansky, Vladimir Ivanov, as well as Alexey Koshvanets and Mikhail Gantvarg within the framework of the Embassy of Musical Mastery project.
 
He has won in the All-Russian Competition "Young Talents of Russia" (2013).
 
He is also a participant of the Yuri Bashmet Educational Center "Young Talents of Russia", and the All-Russian festival and competition "The Magic of Sound" (2015).
 
He takes part in the programs of the St. Petersburg Music House since 2016.
He currently plays a 1719 Giuseppe (Filius Andrea) Guarneri violin, provided by the St. Petersburg House of Music.