Valery Klimov (violinist)
Valeri Klimov is a Russian violinist.Biography
Klimov was born in Kiev. He began to study music under the guidance of his father - conductor and teacher Alexander Ignatievich Klimov. From the age of 7 he studied at the Odessa Music Boarding School for Gifted Children with Pyotr Stolyarsky, Starting in 1945, he studied with B.Z. Mordkovich. In 1949 he performed public concerts featuring repertoire by Alexander Glazunov, W.A. Mozart and Felix Mendelssohn. There he met David Oistrakh.
In 1951 he entered the Kiev Conservatory, where he studied under B.S. Fishman. After a year of study, he was transferred to the Moscow Conservatory in the studio of David Oistrakh.
In 1955, he took sixth place in the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition. A year later, he became the winner of the J. Slavik and F. Ondřicek violin competition, but his main success was brought by the 1st International Tchaikovsky Competition, where he won the Gold Medal in the violin category.
Since 1957, he has been a soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. He performed with the largest orchestras in the world under the direction of conductors including Yevgeny Svetlanov, Kirill Kondrashin, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Konstantin Ivanov, Arvīds Jansons, Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy, Carlo Zecchi, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Norman Del Mar, Serge Baudo, Franz-Paul Decker, and others. Among the famous orchestras - the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio and Television, the London Symphony Orchestra the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, New York Symphony Orchestra, Washington State Orchestra, Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and other groups. For 25 years, he continued his relationship with the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra. He gave concerts in world famous halls such as the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Bolshoi Zal of the Leningrad Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, Festival Hall, Albert Hall, the Wiener Musikverein, the great hall of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Sydney Opera House, and many others.
He has numerous records on phonograph and compact disc made by Melodia, EMI Elektrola, Ariola, Toshiba, Victor Company and Angel Records, "Le Chant du Monde", etc.
From 1965 to 1989 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory. His students have included Aiman Musakhodzhaeva, Gernot Winischhofer:, Elena Denisova, Evgeny Bushkov, and many others.
Klimov has repeatedly participated in the jury of many international competitions including the P.I. Tchaikovsky in Moscow, M. Long - J. Thibaud in Paris, N. Paganini in Genoa, W.A. Mozart in Salzburg, J. Sibelius in Helsinki, G. Kulenkampf in Cologne, as well as in competitions in Montreal and Tokyo, ect.
Since 1989 he has been teaching at the Higher School of Music of Saarbrücken.Awards and titles
