Pavel Vernikov
Pavel is born in Odessa, Ukraine, he received his musical training in Moscow under D. Oistrach and S. Snitkovsky at the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. In 1979 he won the Munich International Competition and was awarded the “Vittorio Gui” Grand Prix in Florence. For thirty years has been performing with the Tchaikovsky Trio as well as playing in the major concert halls of Europe and America: Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Centre in New York, London’s Wigmore Hall, la Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and La Scala, Milan. He has also featured in leading concert seasons alongside artists of the calibre of Sviatoslav Richter, Krystian Zimmermann, James Galway, Christian Ivaldi, Alain Meunier, Misha Maisky, Juliam Ravlin, Natalia Gutman, Maria Tipo, Oleg Kagan, Yuri Bashmet, Elisso Virsaladze, Antony Pay. Founder of the Russian Academy for Specialist Musicians in Portogruaro, and aritistic director of Portogruaro’s musical summer, Vernikov also runs advanced courses at the Violin School in Kuhmo, Finland. He has also held masterclasses and seminars at the National Conservatory in Paris, the Hochschule in Stuttgart, the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv and at the Casals Festival in Prado. He has been professor at the High Conservatory of Music in Lyon, France. Since 2004 he has been professor at the Conservatory of Wien. Many of his pupils has been awarded with international prizes between which Fanny Clamagirand, first prize of the Fritz Kreisler Competition, Massimo Quarta, first prize at the N. Paganini Competition of Genova etc. He is regulary invited as a member of important competition juries: ARD (Munich), Joachim (Hannover), Vittorio Gui (Florence), Fritz Kreisler (Wien) Szigeti (Budapest) etc. Since 1999 he has been artistic director of the chamber orchestra I Virtuosi Italiani. He has recorded for RCA, Ondine and Dynamic. At present he plays the famous Pietro Guarnieri violin known as “Baron Knoff” (Venice, 1740) belonging to the Foundation “Il Canale
