“Boris Garlitsky is an extremely lively musician of high intelligence and flexibility, with a wonderfully round tone and solid reliable technique.” These are the words of Kurt Masur, with whom he worked together throughout many years. And still, Kurt Masur’s words grasp but a part of Boris Garlitsky’s musical richness.
In 1982, he won the Paganini Competition and began his career as a soloist. Since then, he has played, among others, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia (conducted by Ignat Solzhenitsyn) as well as the Milan based Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra and the British Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. His interpretations of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto with the Orchestre National de Lyon were praised in the press: “The intensity and irresistible force of persuasion brought to it by all the skill of Boris Garlitsky was worthy of the work’s first interpreter, David Oistrakh”, the Le Figaro Lyon commented.
Boris Garlitsky is an active participator in several international music festivals and performs for the BBC, Radio France as well as a number of radio stations in Italy, Russia and the United States. He has recorded for RCA, Naxos, Chandos and Polymnie. Among the artists who have partnered him are Pinchas Zukerman, Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Vadim Repin, Truls Mørk, Maria-João Pires.
Born in Russia, Boris Garlitsky received his first music lessons from his father, the author of the standard textbook for young violinists Step by Step. He studied with professor Yuri Yankelevich at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and afterwards worked as the concertmaster of the Moscow Virtuosi, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Philharmonic.
Today, Boris Garlitsky offers masterclasses on a yearly basis at the most renowned music institutions including the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and the Kronberg Academy.
