Yuri Kalnits has established his career both as soloist and chamber musician by performing extensively throughout the UK and abroad. He is regularly invited to participate in festivals throughout the world such as Festival Musicales Internationales Guil-Durance (France), Young Artist Peninsula Music Festival (USA), Festival Cziffra (France), Waterford International Music Festival (Ireland), Pharos Trust Festival (Cyprus), Festival “Musica da camera” (Germany,) Festival International Ciudad de Ubeda (Spain), Loch Shiel Spring Festival (Scotland) and has played at many important venues including The Purcell Room, St. John’s Smith Square, Barbican, St. Martin-in the-Fields, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center and Suntory Hall. Tours have taken him to Russia, Ireland, Germany, Israel, France, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, USA, Hong Kong and Cyprus.
Born in Moscow in 1975, Yuri Kalnits started playing the violin at the age of five studying with his father. In 1982 he was accepted by the Moscow Central Music School and studied with Galina Turchaninova. From 1983 he attended the Moscow Gnessin Music School for Gifted Children as a pupil of Irina Svetlova and frequently represented the School in concerts both at home and abroad. These included performances as a soloist with the Minsk and Yaroslavl Symphony Orchestras, playing at the Main Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, representing the School in England and leading and playing solo with the Gnessin Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra in Japan.
In 1992, Yuri began studying at the Royal College of Music (London) with Professor Itzhak Rashkovsky, winning several major College prizes, including the Foundation Scholarship, W.H. Reed, Isolde Menges prizes and Leonard Hirsch Prize for the outstanding string player of the year. He went on to win major prizes, notably the Bromsgrove and Watford Music Festivals in England, the Yehudi Menuhin Award from the Sudborough Foundation, KPMG/Martin Musical Scholarship (UK), Cziffra Foundation competition (France), Web Concert Hall Competition (USA), Barthel Prize from the Concordia Foundation.
Upon graduation from the RCM Yuri was awarded the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Scholarship for postgraduate studies there. He completed his training with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall School of Music and Vasko Vassiliev at Trinity College of Music whilst receiving further artistic guidance from eminent musicians such as Shlomo Mintz, Abram Shtern, Igor Oistrakh, Edward Grach, Sergei Fatkulline, Sylvia Rosenberg and Valentin Berlinsky.
Recent seasons saw him perform as a soloist with the London Festival Orchestra, Mozart Festival Orchestra, Arpeggione Chamber Orchestra, London Soloist Chamber Orchestra, Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, Kazan Chamber Orchestra “La Primavera”, London Musical Arts Ensemble and the New Philharmonia Koln to name a few.
Yuri is currently recording the complete works for violin and piano by M. Weinberg for Toccata Classics with pianist Michael Csanyi-Wills.
Born in Moscow in 1975, Yuri Kalnits started playing the violin at the age of five studying with his father. In 1982 he was accepted by the Moscow Central Music School and studied with Galina Turchaninova. From 1983 he attended the Moscow Gnessin Music School for Gifted Children as a pupil of Irina Svetlova and frequently represented the School in concerts both at home and abroad. These included performances as a soloist with the Minsk and Yaroslavl Symphony Orchestras, playing at the Main Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, representing the School in England and leading and playing solo with the Gnessin Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra in Japan.
In 1992, Yuri began studying at the Royal College of Music (London) with Professor Itzhak Rashkovsky, winning several major College prizes, including the Foundation Scholarship, W.H. Reed, Isolde Menges prizes and Leonard Hirsch Prize for the outstanding string player of the year. He went on to win major prizes, notably the Bromsgrove and Watford Music Festivals in England, the Yehudi Menuhin Award from the Sudborough Foundation, KPMG/Martin Musical Scholarship (UK), Cziffra Foundation competition (France), Web Concert Hall Competition (USA), Barthel Prize from the Concordia Foundation.
Upon graduation from the RCM Yuri was awarded the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Scholarship for postgraduate studies there. He completed his training with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall School of Music and Vasko Vassiliev at Trinity College of Music whilst receiving further artistic guidance from eminent musicians such as Shlomo Mintz, Abram Shtern, Igor Oistrakh, Edward Grach, Sergei Fatkulline, Sylvia Rosenberg and Valentin Berlinsky.
Recent seasons saw him perform as a soloist with the London Festival Orchestra, Mozart Festival Orchestra, Arpeggione Chamber Orchestra, London Soloist Chamber Orchestra, Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, Kazan Chamber Orchestra “La Primavera”, London Musical Arts Ensemble and the New Philharmonia Koln to name a few.
Yuri is currently recording the complete works for violin and piano by M. Weinberg for Toccata Classics with pianist Michael Csanyi-Wills.
