Biography
Trio Voronezh can be an unusual chamber group using Russian folk musical instruments in concerts which range from Russian folk and popular tune with their own agreements of classical chamber functions. The trio’s associates are all in the Russian town of Voronezh and so are graduates from the Academy of Music in Voronezh. Jointly, they’re Vladimir Volochin, Valerie Petruchin, and Sergei Teleshev. Volochin (delivered 1966) has domra, a three-stringed device within the mandolin family members with an extended neck which was the precursor towards the balalaika and a respected solo device in Russia. Volochin offers performed the device since he was six and received the 1988 Russian Country wide Championship within the All Russian Domra Competition. Petruchin (created 1974) takes on the dual bass balalaika, a three-stringed device with a unique triangular body manufactured from fir. He began playing accordion and used balalaika at age 19. Teleshev (created 1971) takes on the bayan, a Russian type of chromatic-button accordion. Among the instrument’s distinctions is the fact that its buttons to improve its registers are in the top from the instrument, therefore the participant can operate them with the chin. Teleshev provides won several awards for his playing and it has studied the device since he was six. They produced the Trio Voronezh in 1993 and had been discovered with the director from the Oregon Bach Celebration in 1994, because the trio was playing within a subway in Frankfurt, Germany. Before arriving at america, they won the very best Ensemble Award on the Klingental International Accordion Competition. If they performed the 1996 Bach Celebration, their unusual agreements of chamber music and their exciting, entertaining stage design made them quick hits. They will have often appeared in america, time for the Oregon Bach Celebration in 1997. They will have appeared in the Prairie House Companion radio present within the U.S. with the Ann Arbor Celebration. In concert, their well-known and folk music runs from Russian materials to tangos with the Buenos Aires composer Astor Piazzolla. Their traditional repertory uses their very own agreements of functions from composers mainly because diverse mainly because Bach, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, and Schubert.