Organist Grigory Varshavsky graduated from the Leningrad Conservatoire in 1982, having specialised in three subjects – piano (class of Professor Leonid Gakkel), organ (class of Professor Nina Oksetian) and the history of music (class of Senior Lecturer Viktoria Shirokova). Under Professor Oleg Kolovsky he continued with a postgraduate study at the Leningrad Conservatoire, from which he graduated in 1987.
Grigory Varshavsky has given organ recitals at the Great Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonic and the Academic Glinka Capella, as well as concert performances in towns throughout Russia, the CIS, the Baltic States, Germany, Switzerland and Finland.
Grigory Varshavsky teaches in the class for special organ and also the Master of Arts degree course at the St Petersburg State University. Since 1990, he has been the organist of the Lutheran Church of St Catherine on Vasilievsky Island in St Petersburg, where he frequently gives open-access concerts, devoting particular attention to music from the European Baroque. Grigory Varshavsky also performs together with various early music ensembles.
He has made extensive recordings.
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