Praised by critics as “thrilling...a miracle of control and passion combined...deeply expressive...[playing with] tensile strength and fire” (Reading Eagle), The Russian Trio has emerged as one of the most promising young chamber music groups today.6016009The Russian Piano TrioFollowing prizes in the 2013 Coleman Chamber Music Competition and the 2012 Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition, The Russian Trio has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Academy Art Museum Concert Series (Easton, MD), the Friends of Chamber Music Concert Series (Reading, PA), and the Washington College Concert Series (Chestertown, MD). Members of the Russian Trio have given concerts throughout the United States, Canada, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Spain, Mexico, Norway, Belarussia, Poland, France and the Czech Republic. The trio has been coached by some of today’s most eminent chamber musicians including Michael Kannen, Daniel Phillips (violinist of the Orion String Quartet), and András Fejér (cellist of the Takács Quartet). They currently reside in Baltimore, Maryland.  

 

Katherine Harris Rick

 

 

Award-winning pianist Katherine Harris Rick appears as soloist and chamber musician throughout the US and abroad. During the 2012-2013 season, she will appear in venues such as the Kennedy Center, the Academy Art Museum Concert Series (Easton, MD), the Friends of Chamber Music Concert Series (Reading, PA), and the Washington College Concert Series (Chestertown, MD). Ms. Rick made her solo debut at age nine in her hometown of Yakutsk, Siberia, winning the Republic of Yakutia Competition for Young Pianists. She went on to gather accolades from international competitions in seven countries, performing across the Ukraine, Belarussia, Canada, the United States, Russia, Poland, and France. Among the competitions in which she received awards are the World Piano Competition (Cincinnati, OH), the Rachmaninoff Competition for Young Pianists (Veliki Novgorod, Russia) and the International Russian Music Piano Competition (San Jose, CA). She has also played in several internationally known venues, such as Carnegie Hall and the Glinka Small Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia.

 

Ms. Rick has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Polish Music Festival Orchestra (Zamość, Poland), the Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra (Los Angeles, CA), Southwestern Youth Music Festival Orchestra (Los Angeles, CA) and the Cobb Symphony Orchestra (Marietta, GA). In 2012, her trio (The Russian Trio) won second prize and the audience award at the Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition in Easton, Maryland.

 

Ms. Rick was given a full scholarship to Azusa Pacific University when she was only fifteen years old—the youngest student ever to enter the university. Subsequently, she was offered a full graduate assistantship in accompanying at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and graduated with her Master of Music last spring. This fall, she enrolled in the Doctor of Musical Arts program at Peabody with a full graduate assistantship in Keyboard Studies. She has been privileged to perform in masterclasses with some of the greats of today’s pianistic world, such as Leon Fleisher, Dinna Joffe and Naum Shtarkman, and her most influential teachers have included Alexander Shtarkman, Marina Lomazov, Natalya Reznik, Antoinette Perry and Pavel Nersessian.

 

Nikita Borisevich

 

 

Violinist Nikita Borisevich swept onto the Russian stage as one of today’s most promising young virtuosos. He was born into a musical family and was five years old when he began studying the violin. His first teacher was his father, who was trained by students of the renowned Russian teachers Stolyarsky and Gutnikov. His fate was decided at age twelve, when he made his debut with the Perm Opera Symphony Orchestra, playing a Haydn Violin Concerto. At fifteen, he won a Russian National Competition for Violinists and Cellists called “The Magical Bow” in Perm, Russia, as well as the Perm Youth Music Festival, as a result of which he performed Bruch and Vieuxtemps Violin concertos with the Perm Opera Symphony Orchestra. Later, Nikita enrolled in the Moscow Conservatory on full scholarship to study with Maya Glezarova and Marina Keselman.

 

During his years at the Moscow Conservatory, Nikita toured and performed in the Ukraine, Latvia, Spain, and the Czech Republic. Last season, Nikita performed with the Ural Republic Symphony Orchestra playing works by Paganini, Ravel and Waxman. Nikita also broadened his musical horizons by attending the Russische Musikakdemie Dortmund (2005), as well as the Heifetz Music Academy (2010, 2012). He performed in such concert halls as the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Manuel de Falla Auditorium (Granada, Spain), and W.M.P. Concert Hall “Strad for Lunch” music series (New York City). This season, Nikita performed “Tzigane” by Ravel with the Volgograd Academic Orchestra. Also, he won second prize in the Yale Gordon Concerto Competition (Baltimore, February 2012).

 

An avid chamber musician, Nikita has performed chamber quintets by Frank, Dvorak and Shostakovich in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.  In 2010, he won a diploma and special prize at the Chamber Music Competition in Vilnius (Lithuania). He participated in Chamber Music Festival in Togliatti (Russia, 2009, 2011). Also in 2011, Nikita won the Grand Prix in the International Chamber Music Competition (trio division) in St. Petersburg, Russia. This year, he made debut at the Moscow Philharmonic Society (chamber music series). This March, Nikita won second prize and the audience award in the Chesapeake International Chamber Music Competition in Easton, Maryland.Nikita is now pursuing further graduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory of Music with Victor Danchenko. He would like to thank the Estate of  Dorothy Scott Bendann Leitch for establishing the Lindred Scott Bendann Endowed Scholarship in Violin at Peabody.2203730

 

Dmitry Volkov

 

 

Winner of the 2009 Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition, cellist Dmitry Volkov performs solo concerts across the Globe. Having graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the studio of Natalia Shakhovskaya in 2011, he is pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Peabody Institute in the studio of Amit Peled.

 

Born in Togliatti, Russia, Mr. Volkov has performed as a soloist with the National Symphony of Mexico, Youth Orchestras of the Americas (Mexico), Samara Symphony, Togliatti Symphony, Naberezhnye Chelny Symphony (Russia), in addition to solo concerts at the Abramson Recital Hall (Washington DC), International Holland Music Sessions (Norway), le Poisson Rouge, W.M.P Concert Hall Series “Strad for Lunch” (New York), and Miguel Bernal Jiménez International Music Festival (Mexico).

 

Mr. Volkov won First Prize in the Midland-Odessa Symphony National Young Artist Competition (2011), Heifetz Institute of Music Concerto Competition (2009), and Togliatti International Competition for Strings (2002), as well as Second Prize in the Teacher and Student International Competition (2003). He has won numerous Scholarships and Awards, including the Holland Music Sessions’ New Masters on Tour participant (2011–12), Stephen Kates Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund in Cello (2010), First Act Heifetz Institute Scholarship (2008–10), and Gold Book of New Names in Samara, Russia (2009).In May 2012, Mr. Volkov made his debut in several of the most prestigious concert halls in Europe, including Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Theatre Odeon (Zwolle) and Hervormde Kerk (Den Hoorn), in addition to recording his first solo CD on the Urtext label.

 

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