YOSSIF IVANOV • A Violin by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1699, "Lady Tennant"

Photo: © éric larrayadieu / naïve

Acclaimed as “a player of impressive authority and presence “ by The Strad and “one of the top violinists of tomorrow “ by Diapason, Yossif Ivanov at the age of twenty-three has quickly established himself as one of the leading violinists of the young generation. He was awarded the first prize at the Montreal International Competition at just sixteen, and both second prize and the public prize at the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels at eighteen.

Over the past seasons Ivanov has made debuts with leading European orchestras including the London Philharmonic, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Orchestre National d’Ile de France, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Wiener Kammerorchester, Mozarteum, and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

The violinist has been invited to perform in recital at the the Menton and Montpellier festivals in France, Philharmonie Essen in Germany, Carnegie Hall in New York and Ladies’ Morning Musical Club in Montréal. Apart from his regular recital partners Itamar Golan and Philippe Ivanov, he has also collaborated with the pianists Ingrid Fliter, Frank Braley, David Kadouch and Plamena Mangova.

As an orchestral soloist, Ivanov has performed with orchestras including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Residentie Orkest The Hague, English Chamber Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orchestre de Lille among others. He has worked with distinguished conductors including Neeme Järvi, Marin Alsop, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Philippe Herreweghe, Jaap Van Zweden, John Axelrod, and Yoel Levi.

Highlights of forthcoming seasons include orchestral debuts in North America on a U.S. tour with the London Philharmonic conducted by Vladimir Jurowsk and in Asia with the Malaysian and Singapore philharmonic orchestras. The violinist will also give debut concerts with the Milano Verdi Orchestra, Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, and Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse. Ivanov has been invited to perform again at the Concertgebouw, this time with the Brabants Orkest under the direction of Yuri Simonov. Ivanov will play recitals at the Flanders Festival, Beethovenfest in Bonn and Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti Roma.

In November 2006 the violinist’s first CD on the Ambroisie/Naïve label was awarded a Diapason d’Or de l’Année, the most important recording industry award in France. He has also recorded a disk pairing Shostakovitch’s First Violin Concerto with Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto. For a CD featuring the works of Henri Dutilleux that will be released later this year, Ivanov collaborated with the Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon and Kazushi Ono.

Yossif Ivanov has studied the violin with Zakhar Bron, Igor and Valery Oistrakh, and Augustin Dumay. He is the youngest violin teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.