Yuri Abramovich Bashmet (Russian: Юрий Абрамович Башмет; born 24 January 1953) is a Russian conductor, violinist, and violist. Yuri Bashmet. Юрий Башмет.

As recitalist, Yuri Bashmet has been the first violist to give a solo performance at such leading halls as La Scala in Milan and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Yuri Bashmet is the founder and jury chair of Russia´s only International Viola Competition (Moscow) as well as president of the International Lionel Tertis ...

Yuri Bashmet has been the artistic director and principal conductor of the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra since 2002. Film and television broadcasters in ...

Yuri Bashmet (b. 1953) is one of the most renowned contemporary viola players. His international career was launched in 1976 when the twenty-three-year-old ...

Yuri Bashmet | Director | Violin | Viola ... Through his virtuosity, strength of personality and high intelligence, Yuri Bashmet [www.yuribashmet.com] has given ...

Yuri Bashmet was born in 1953 in Rostov-on-Don in Russia and spent his childhood in Lvov in the Ukraine. He began studying at the Moscow Conservatoire at the ...

Today is Russian violist Yuri Bashmet's 71st birthday. Born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, in 1953, Yuri Bashmet received his musical education at the Moscow ...

The Russian violinist, violist and conductor Yuri Bashmet has steadily forged a reputation as a bold contemporary artist, unafraid of risk-taking.

Bashmet was appointed music director and chief conductor of the Russian Symphony Orchestra ("New Russia") in 2002. Among Bashmet's recordings is the 2008 Onyx ...