Boris Vayner, viola

Violist Boris Vayner was born in 1977 in Novosibirsk, Russia and began to play the violin at age 7. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Aleksey Lyudevig. While studying, he played recitals in St. Petersburg, Drammen (Norway), Berlin. In summer 1999 he took part in the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival. He studied in BerlinÒs Hochschule fur Musik ÓHanns EislerÔ in the class of Carol Rodland.

As a member of the Krasny Quartet, Mr. Vayner received 1st prize at the Gartow Fund Chamber Music Competition in St. Petersburg in 1999, and recorded all the quartets of Vissarion Shebalin for Sony Classical.

In September 2002, he received 2nd prize in the Gartow Fund Solo Competition in St. Petersburg. He was assistant principal viola in the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 2003, he has been studying at the New England Conservatory, in the class of Carol Rodland. He has attended master classes by Kim Kashkashian and Karen Tuttle, and played with New England Conservatory Philharmonia.