Yuri Zagorodnyuk completed a post-graduate study at the Leningrad Conservatoire in violin (class of Professor Mikhail Vaiman). He joined the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in 1975. Currently he is the leader of the first violins of the Full Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra.
Starting in 1978, he has performed a vast number of solo musician parts in ballets, among them Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, Glazunov’s Raymonda, Asafiev’s The Fountain of Bakhchisarai and Drigo’s Le Réveil de Flore, as well as in operas by composers including Glinka, Musorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Verdi, Wagner and Gounod.
He tours all over the world together with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, his expansive repertoire including every symphony by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff and Mahler as well as other symphonic works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shchedrin among other composers.
Together with the Full Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Zagorodnyuk performs at such illustrious festivals as Gergiev Festival (Netherlands), the Mikkeli Festival (Finland), the Stars of the White Nights festival and the Moscow Easter Festival.
Yuri Zagorodnyuk is an Honoured Artist of Russia and a holder of the Medal of the Order For Services to the Fatherland, second class.
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