Timur Martynov

• Prize-winner at the II International Raimo Sarmas Trumpet Players’ Competition (Lieska, Finland, 2002, 2^nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the V All-Russian Rimsky-Korsakov Open Competition of Brass and Percussion Musicians (St Petersburg, 2000, 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the IV International Concours de trompette Maurice André (Paris, 2000, 4^th prize and Special Prize)
• Prize-winner at the Gartow Stiftung Competition (St Petersburg, 1997, 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the All-Russian Competition of Young Brass Players (St Petersburg, 1995, 1^st prize)
• Diploma-recipient at the International Trumpet Players’ Competition (Moscow, 1995)
• Diploma-recipient at the International Prague Spring Competition (Prague, Czech Republic, 2003)

Timur Martynov was born in St Petersburg in 1979. He began studying the trumpet under G. M. Kaminsky. In 2002 he graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Professor Yu. A. Bolshiyanov). From 2000 to 2001 he trained at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg. He has taken part in master classes given by Malte Burba, Konradin Groth (Germany) and Jouko Harjanne (Finland).

From 1995 to 2000 he was a soloist with the St Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra. From 2005 to 2006 he was a soloist with the Musica Aeterna Ensemble chamber orchestra of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. Since 2007, he has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and the Mariinsky Brass Ensemble.