The winner of the 2010 Sibelius Violin Competition Nikita Boriso-Glebsky with pianist Georgy Tchaidze in Hämeenlinna, the birth city of Sibelius
Winner of the 2010 Sibelius Violin Competition Nikita Boriso-Glebsky with pianist Georgy Tchaidze
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Last January I had a chance to produce a recital of Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, the winner of the Sibelius Violin Competition of 2010, for the radio. He played in Hämeenlinna, the birth city of Jean Sibelius, with his old roommate Georgy Tchaidze from the Moscow Conservatory. Even though they studied together and played together in their leisure time, this was only the third time they actually performed together.
Georgy Tchaidze and Nikita Boriso-Glebsky shared a dorm room at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory for one year.
Entisillä kämppiksillä Moskovan ajoilta sujui yhteistyö hulvattoman huumorin merkeissä.
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Both have great careers going, and Boriso-Glebsky has returned to Finland to play on may occasions. In the 2010 competition he received a special prize for the best interpretation of the Sibelius Concerto. "I have played it several times all over the world, but the most memorable performance is still the one at the competition with the Radio Symphony Orchestra," he recalls. "To play with these musicians who had grown up with this music and were living it was incredible. I haven't felt like that ever since."
Nikita Boriso-Glebsky's host family during the 2010 violin competition, violinist Silja Raitio-Heikinheimo and cellist Tapani Heikinheimo, came to hear the recital in Hämeenlinna.
Nikita Boriso-Glebsky reuniting with his 2010 host family, the Heikinheimos.
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Nikita Boriso-Glebsky showing off his new medal.
Nikita Boriso-Glebsky with his Sibelius Birth City Foundation Medal
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At the January recital the chair of the Sibelius Birth City Foundation Erkki Korhonen gave Nikita Boriso-Glebsky the Sibelius Birth City Foundation Medal, a distinguished prize only given to distinguished artists!
Erkki Korhonen and pianist Georgy Tchaidze
Erkki Korhonen and pianist Georgy Tchaidze in Hämeenlinna
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Pianist Erkki Korhonen is the head of the Sibelius Celebrations in Hämeenlinna.
Erkki Korhonen is the head of the Sibelius Celebrations in Hämeenlinna, the birth city of Sibelius.
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The Sibelius Birth Home
The room Sibelius was born in - and his cradle.
Huone jossa Sibelius syntyi.
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The livingroom in the Sibelius birth home
The Livingroom in the Sibelius birth home.
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Sibelius felt the piano was off key, thus making him switch into playing the violin.
The piano at the Sibelius birth home
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