A concert in memory of Yuri Zagorodnyuk

Yuri Zagorodnyuk completed a post-graduate study at the Leningrad Conservatoire in violin (class of Professor Mikhail Vaiman). He joined the Mariinsky Orchestra in 1975. Zagorodnyuk was the leader of the first violins for many years.
Starting in 1978, he 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, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Verdi, Wagner, Gounod and others. He toured all over the world together with the Mariinsky Orchestra, performed at such illustrious festivals as Gergiev Festival (the Netherlands), the Mikkeli Festival (Finland), the Stars of the White Nights festival, and the Moscow Easter Festival.
Yuri Zagorodnyuk was an Honoured Artist of Russia and a holder of the Medal of the Order for Services to the Fatherland, second class.
Died at the age of sixty-eight on 18 May 2018.