Pavel Milyukov

Pavel Milyukov is a prize-winner at international competitions in Kloster Schöntal (2nd prize, 2003), Astana (Grand Prix, 2008), Seoul (2nd prize, 2012), the International Robert Canetti Competition (1st prize, 2005), the Vibrarte international competition in Paris (1st prize, 2008), the 5th Niccolo Paganini International Violin Competition in Moscow (2nd prize, 2007), the David Oistrakh Competition in Moscow (2nd prize, 2008) and the Aram Khachaturian Competition in Yerevan (1stprize, 2012). In June 2015 Milyukov won the 3rd prize at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition.

At the age of four started taking music lessons with Tatyana Shevtsova, giving his first performance with an orchestra at the age of seven. Studied at the College of Music of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire and at the Moscow Conservatoire (class of Vladimir Ivanov). In 2012 he obtained a postgraduate degree with distinction at the Moscow Conservatoire and in 2013 another one at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz (class of Boris Kuschnir).

Tours across Austria, Belgium, Brasil, China, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, South and North Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Russia where he also gives master-classes. He performs at the biggest Russian venues such as the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Mariinsky Theater Concert Hall.

Has worked with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Fedoseyev, James Conlon, Vasily Petrenko, Yuri Simonov, Pavel Kogan, Alexander Sladkovsky, Robert Canetti, Maria Eklund, and Kristjan Järvi among others.

He has twice received a grant from the St Petersburg House of Music and Bank Rossiya. Since 2008 he has been a soloist with the St Petersburg House of Music. Since 2012 he has been a soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic. In 2016 he was awarded the Order of Friendship.

He plays the “ex-Szigeti” instrument made by Pietro Guarneri and provided by the Neva Foundation.

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