YABLONSKY, DMITRY

Dmitry Yablonsky was born in Moscow into a musical family. His mother is the famous pianist Oxana Yablonsklaya and his father is Albert Zaionz, who has been for 30 years solo oboe of the Radio and Television Orchestra in Moscow.

Dmitry began playing the cello when he was five years old and was immediately accepted into the  Central Music School for gifted children. At the age of nine he gave his orchestral début playing Haydn´s Cello Concerto in C major.  In Russia, Dmitry studied with Stefan Kalianov, who has been Rostropovich´s assistant, and Isaak Buravsky, who for many years was solo cello of Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Before migrating to the United States he frequently performed in Moscow and in many other cities of the former Soviet Union. In support of his visa application to leave the Soviet Union many signatures from well known personalities, including Leonard Bernstein and Katherine Hepburn, were contributed to allow him and his mother to leave the country.

 In 1977 Dmitry and his mother arrive in New York, where he auditioned for the Juilliard School of Music and was accepted to study with Lorne Munroe, solo cello of New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

In the summer of 1979, at the age of sixteen, Dmitry participated in the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont and was the youngest to do so that summer. Having heard him David Soyer, cellist of the Guarneri Quartet, invited Dmitry to study with him at the Curtis Institute of Music.

In the summer of 1980, Dmitry met Aldo Parisot, distinguished cellist and professor at Yale University, where Dmitry spent four years. At Yale he became interested in conducting after meeting Otto Werner Muller, professor of conducting.

After graduating from Yale, he spent two years undertaking the artist diploma program at the Juillard School of Music with Zara Nelsova. During this time Dmitry played for Janos Starker, Mstislav Rostropovich, Andre Navarra, Maurice Gendron and many others. During a festival at Camerino, Italy, he was asked to replace a conductor who had cancelled at the last minute.  Dmitry was 26 years old when he made début conducting members of Santa Cecilia orchestra of Rome in Stravinsky’s Octet.

As a cellist he has played all over the world in venues as Carnegie Hall, La Scala, the Moscow Great Hall, St Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Taiwan National Hall, Teatre Mogador, Cité de la Musique, the Louvre and many others. His distinguished chamber music partners have included  Victor Tretyakov, Leif Ove Andsnes, Vadim Repin, Boris Berezovsky and Yuri Bashmet .

For four years Dmitry has been Principal Guest Conductor of Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and has conducted many orchestras around the world, including the Belgian National Orchestra, Catania Opera Orchestra, Netherlands North Orchestra, Holland Symphonia, Bologna Chamber Orchestra, Taiwan National Orchestra, Russian State Orchestra, Orchestre National d’Ile de France and Israel Symphony Orchestra.

He has collaborated with soloists such as Monserrat Caballe, Roberto Alagna, Olga Borodina and performed Penderecki’s Cello Concerto with the composer at the podium.

He has transcribed and edited works for cello, published by the International Music Company and Dover Publications.

Dmitry has made more than 70 recordings as conductor and cellist for Naxos and other labels, winning awards such as the Berlin Critic Prize, reaching the charts in the UK and USA, and, in 2007, receiving a Grammy nomination.

He has organized many festivals all over the world including the Qabala Festival in Azerbaijan, and the Wandering Stars Festival, which takes place in different countries each year.

Dmitry has two cellos, a Joseph Filius Andrea Guarneri of 1726 and Matteo Gofriller of 1700. He lives on the border of France and Spain in a beautiful Catalan Village in the mountains. 

For more information, please visit his website http://www.dmitryyablonsky.com

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
20 KLASSISKA FAVORITER (20 Classical Favorites)	8.570566
21ST CENTURY CINEMA CLASSICS	8.556698
A TO Z OF CLASSICAL MUSIC (The) (3rd Expanded Edition, 2009)	8.558212-13
ABE: Symphony No. 1 / Divertimento / Sinfonietta	8.557987
ALBERT: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Esther Overture	8.553728
AMIROV, F.: Shur / Kyurdi Ovshari / Gyulistan Bayati Shiraz / Azerbaijan Capriccio (Russian Philharmonic, Yablonsky)	8.572170
ARENSKY, A.: Piano Concerto / Ryabinin Fantasia / To the Memory of Suvorov / Symphonic Scherzo (Scherbakov, Russian Philharmonic, Yablonsky)	8.570526
ARENSKY: Egyptian Nights	8.225028
ARENSKY: Suites Nos. 1-3	8.553768
BALAKIREV, M.: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Grande Fantaisie on Russian Folksongs (Seifetdinova, Russian Philharmonic, Yablonsky)	8.570396
BRAHMS: Violin Concerto / BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy	8.571016
BRUCH, M.: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 (Fedotov, Russian Philharmonic, Yablonsky)	8.557793
BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46 / Serenade, Op. 75	8.557395
BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Konzertstuck / Romance, Op. 42	8.557689
DISCOVER FILM MUSIC	8.558210-11
Dmitry SHOSTAKOVICH: Jazz Suites Nos. 1 & 2	5.110006
DUKE: Piano Concerto / Cello Concerto / Homage to Boston	8.559286
DVORAK: American Suite / Silent Woods / Prague Waltzes	8.557352
ERNST: Music for Violin and Orchestra	8.557565
FUKAI: Chantes de Java / Creation / Quatre Mouvements Parodiques	8.557688
GLAZUNOV, A.K.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 14 - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (Yablonskaya, Moscow Symphony, Yablonsky)	8.553928
GLAZUNOV, A.K.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 18 - Masquerade / 2 Pieces / Pas de caractere / Romantic Intermezzo (Russian Philharmonic, Yablonsky)	8.570211
HAYASAKA: Piano Concerto / Ancient Dances on the Left and on the Right	8.557819
HEADLEY: California Suite / Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Symphony No. 1	8.559300
IFUKUBE: Sinfonia Tapkaara / Ritmica Ostinata / Symphonic Fantasia No.1	8.557587
IVANOVS: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3	8.223331
IVANOVS: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 12	8.223332
IVANOVS: Symphonies Nos. 8 and 20	8.555740
JACK-IN-THE-BOX - A Collection of Amusic and Entertaining Works by Classical Composers	8.570124-25
KABALEVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 3 / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Piano Concerto	8.557794
KABALEVSKY: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2	8.557683
KARAYEV, K: Symphony No. 3 / Leyli and Medjnun / Don Quixote (Russian Philharmonic, Yablonsky)	8.570720
KHACHATURIAN, A.I.: Cello Concerto / Concerto-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra (Yablonsky, Russian Philharmonia, Fedotov)	8.570463
KHACHATURIAN, A.I.: Piano Concerto / Concert Rhapsody	8.550799
KHACHATURIAN, A.I.: Spartacus, Suite No. 4 / Masquerade / Circus	8.550802
MIASKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Minor / VAINBERG: Violin Concerto in G Minor	8.557194
MUSICAL JOURNEY (A) - ST PETERSBURG: Palaces of the Tsars (NTSC)	2.110511
MYASKOVSKY: Symphonies Nos. 24 and 25	8.555376
OHZAWA: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Symphony No. 2	8.570177
OHZAWA: Piano Concerto No. 3, 'Kamikaze' / Symphony No. 3	8.557416
PANDA CLASSICS - Issue Nos. 1-3 (3CD box set)	8.503204
POPPER, D.: High School of Cello Playing, Op. 73 (Yablonsky)	8.557718-19
PROKOFIEV, S.: Alexander Nevsky / Pushkiniana (Russian State Symphony, Yablonsky)	8.555710
PROKOFIEV: Alexander Nevsky / Pushkiniana / Hamlet	5.110015
PROKOFIEV: Sergey Prokofiev - A Portrait (HART)	8.558202-03
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3	6.110013
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3	5.110013
RACHMANINOV: Piano Trios	8.557423
ROZSA: Violin Concerto / Sinfonia Concertante	8.570350
SHOSTAKOVICH (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552129-30
SHOSTAKOVICH: Ballet Suites Nos. 1-4	8.557208
SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Sonata / Violin Sonata	8.557722
SHOSTAKOVICH: Dmitry Shostakovich - A Portrait (WHITEHOUSE)	8.558188-89
SHOSTAKOVICH: Hamlet, Op. 116	5.110062
SHOSTAKOVICH: Hamlet, Op. 116	8.557446
SHOSTAKOVICH: Hamlet, Op. 116 / 116a	6.110062
SHOSTAKOVICH: Jazz Suites Nos. 1 - 2 / The Bolt / Tahiti Trot	8.555949
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 7, 'Leningrad'	5.110020
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 7, 'Leningrad'	6.110020
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 7, 'Leningrad'	8.557256
STOR MUSIK FOR SMA ORON (Big Music for Little Ears) - Children's Music Compilation	8.503156
TCHAIKOVSKY (THE VERY BEST OF)	8.552117-18
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Concert Fantasia	8.557824
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3	5.110051
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3	6.110051
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3	8.557257
TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake	6.110005-06
TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake (Complete Ballet) (Yablonsky)	8.555873-74
TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake (Highlights)	5.110005
TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto / Souvenir d'un lieu cher	8.557690
TISHCHENKO: Symphony No. 7, Op. 119	8.557013
VITOLS: Dramatic Overture / Fantasie / Spiriditis / 'Autumn Song'	8.223756
WEINBERG, M.: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 / Cello Solo Sonatas Nos. 1 and 3 (Yablonsky, Hsin-ni Liu)	8.570333