Mikhail Ovrutsky was awarded first prize at numerous international music competitions including the Pablo Sarasate Competition in Pamplona, the Liana Issakadze Competition in St. Petersburg, the Johansen Competition in Washington, the UNISA Competition in Pretoria, the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels.
Born into a music family in Moscow in 1980, Mikhail began playing the violin at the age of five under Zoya Makhtina at a special school for musically gifted children. His studies subsequently took him to Albert Markow at the Manhattan School of Music, Dorothy Delay at the Julliard School in New York, Yumi Scott and Victor Danchenko at the Curtis Institute of Music and Zakhar Bron at the Cologne Music Academy, from which he graduated with honors in 2003.
Mikhail Ovrutsky has performed worldwide with leading orchestras and conductors including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Marinsky Orchestra St. Petersburg under Valery Gergiev.
He has performed as a soloist and chamber music musician at numerous festivals and has recorded CDs for the music labels WARNER CLASSICS and NAXOS.
Since 2006, Mikhail Ovrutsky has been a member of the Beethoven Trio Bonn. In early 2007 they recorded their debut CD of the piano trio works by Beethoven and Mendelssohn on the Antes Edition label.
In the summer of 2008, Mikhail Ovrutsky appeared with Anne-Sophie Mutter in a successful appearance at the Lucerne Festival. Mikhail had been a Fellow and a recipient of a stipend from the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation since 2002 and has appeared on several occasions with his mother under the auspices of the Foundation.
In the 2008/2009 season Mr. Ovrutsky made appearances with the Prague Radio Orchestra under Alexander Vedernikov, the Helsinki Philharmonic conducted by Leif Segerstam, the Basel Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, BBC Philharmonic. the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne under the direction of Pietari Inkinen, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France.
Mikhail plays a violin by Gioffredo Cappa, Turin 1700.
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