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Concertist
Professor at
Guildhall School of Music
Member of
The Hermitage Trio |
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Cello
Leonid Gorokhov studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire.
Winner of the 1986 Geneva Concours and the 1987 Paris Chamber Music Competition, in 1995 he was awarded the Cultural Achievement Prize by the European Association for Encouragement of the Arts.
In 1991 Leonid Gorokhov appeared as soloist with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic conducted by Lord Menuhin; the strong musical rapport between Leonid Gorokhov and Lord Menuhin resulted in a long collaboration between these
artists.
Leonid Gorokhov has played as soloist with orchestras including Bergen, Berlin & Royal Philharmonic, English Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, the St Petersburg Capella and the Zurich Tonhalle; in chamber music, he has performed at the Townsville Festival, Australia, BargeMusic, New York, the Megaron, Athens, and at many international festivals including Budapest Spring, Corinthian Summer, Davos, Evian, Gstaad, Harrogate, Interlaken, Kuhmo, Ljubljana, Munich, Perth (Scotland), Schleswig-Holstein and Spoleto.
He tours Japan regularly and has made several recordings, including two duo recital recordings with Nikolai Demidenko, with whom he has played at Båstad, Belfast, Eilat Winter, Oslo Chamber Music and Petworth Festivals, Munich and Wigmore Hall.
He is a professor at the Guildhall School of Music.
The Hermitage String Trio
Boris Garlitsky, violin
Alexander Zemtsov, viola
Leonid Gorokhov, cello
“This ensemble will do much to put more string trio repertory on the musical map”
The Strad
In the short time since its foundation in 2004, the Hermitage String Trio has established itself as an outstanding ensemble. With the appointment in 2008 of Boris Garlitsky, leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as violinist, joining founder members Alexander Zemtsov, principal viola of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and cellist Leonid Gorokhov, who has a flourishing solo career, this European-based Russian trio looks forward to the future and to making a serious contribution to chamber music.
An ensemble steeped in the great Russian tradition of string playing, their love of chamber music shines through in their programmes which offer an enticing combination of lesser-known pieces and masterworks of the string trio repertoire.
In Autumn 2004 The Hermitage String Trio made their London début at St John’s Smith Square in Academia Rossica’s Series Russian Virtuosi in London. Their UK concerts have since included the Petworth Festival, where their programme included Schubert’s Trout Quintet with Nikolai Demidenko and to which they were invited to return, the Newbury Spring Festival and , in June 2008, the Wigmore Hall. Abroad, they have played at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, and have given concerts in Munich and in Paris.
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