Dmitry Yablonsky
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Dmitry Yablonsky is a Russia
n classical cellist and conductor.
, and his father, Albert Zaionz, is principal oboist with the Moscow Radio and Television Orchestra. Yablonsky began playing cello at age five, and attended the Central Music School for gifted children. At age nine, he made his debut as cellist and conductor, performing Haydn's Cell Concerto in C Major. He studied with Stefan Kalianov, Rostropovich’s assistant, and Isaak Buravsky, for many years solo cello of Bolshoy Theatre Orchestra, before his family emigrated to the United States.
In 1979, at age 16, he attended the Marlboro Summer School and Festival of Music, and was the youngest musician there. He later studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, then Yale University, where he studied with cellist Aldo Parisot.
Yablonsky began conducting at age 26, in Italy, replacing another conductor at the last minute. Since then, he has led many orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and is currently the Principal Guest Conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.
Yablonsky has recorded dozens of CDs, for the Erato-Warner, Chandos, Naxos
and Marco Polo
record labels, focusing on Russian and Eastern European repertoire.
Yablonsky is Co-Artistic Director of Qabala Music Festival in Azerbaijan. He is an academician of the Independent Academy of Aesthetics and Liberal Arts in Moscow, and also teaches cello at the Baku Academy of Music.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n classical cellist and conductor.
Biography and career
Yablonsky was born in Moscow in a musical family; his mother is the pianist Oxana YablonskayaOxana Yablonskaya
Oxana Yablonskaya is a Russian pianist who has had an active international performance career since the early 1960s. She began her career in the USSR and, although winning several important competitions in the West, was denied by the Soviet government to accept any performance engagements outside...
, and his father, Albert Zaionz, is principal oboist with the Moscow Radio and Television Orchestra. Yablonsky began playing cello at age five, and attended the Central Music School for gifted children. At age nine, he made his debut as cellist and conductor, performing Haydn's Cell Concerto in C Major. He studied with Stefan Kalianov, Rostropovich’s assistant, and Isaak Buravsky, for many years solo cello of Bolshoy Theatre Orchestra, before his family emigrated to the United States.
In 1979, at age 16, he attended the Marlboro Summer School and Festival of Music, and was the youngest musician there. He later studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, then Yale University, where he studied with cellist Aldo Parisot.
Yablonsky began conducting at age 26, in Italy, replacing another conductor at the last minute. Since then, he has led many orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and is currently the Principal Guest Conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.
Yablonsky has recorded dozens of CDs, for the Erato-Warner, Chandos, Naxos
Naxos
-Places:*Naxos , an island in the Cyclades group**Naxos , a town and former municipality on the island of Naxos**Naxos , a Greek government division created from the former Cyclades Prefecture in 2011...
and Marco Polo
Marco Polo
Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently...
record labels, focusing on Russian and Eastern European repertoire.
Yablonsky is Co-Artistic Director of Qabala Music Festival in Azerbaijan. He is an academician of the Independent Academy of Aesthetics and Liberal Arts in Moscow, and also teaches cello at the Baku Academy of Music.