Lipkind Quartet
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Biography
Artiom Shishkov | violin
Anna Lipkind | violin
Viacheslav Dinerchtein | viola
Gavriel Lipkind | cello

They are like a one-headed, 16-stringed monster with four bows and a warm beating heart.

“A different way of making music [...] not subordinate to the stereotypes of today’s concert world, but rather is a result of mutual respect, knowledge and mastery [...] a marvelous acoustic experience [...], a string quartet, which is well capable of stepping into the footprints of the Alban Berg Quartet.”
(Thüringer Allgemeine)

After a single season of concert debuts (across Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, and the US) in 2008, the Lipkind Quartet found itself touring half the globe with two contrasting programs.

A few years later, Lipkind Quartet's highlights list already included opening the new quartet series at Viena's Musikverein, opening the Klara Radio Festival (LIVE) at the large studio 4 at Flagey in Brussels, and being reinvited as quartet in residence of GAIA Chamber Music Festival in Switzerland and the Cross Currents Chamber Music Festival in North Carolina.

Recently a Featured Quartet of Germany's Musikfest Bremen and the enchanting Schiermoonikhoog Chamber Music Festival in Holland, the quartet looks forward to two season of exclusive engagements over three continents with new programs, quintet collabroations, masterclasses, festival residencies, and further CD release sin collab. with Naxos of America.

“A recognizably unique sound, captivating in its clarity of musical thought as well as its instrumental power and flair”
(Frankfurter Neue Presse)

Artiom Shishkov
Artiom Shishkov was born in Belarus in 1984 and started to play the violin at the age of five under the guidance of Janna Kutchinskaia. From 1994 till 2008 he studied at the Republic College of Belarus and later at the state Academy under Eduard Kutchinski.

At the age of eight he gave his first performance with orchestra to great acclaim. In the years to follow Artiom became the laureate of 11 Competitions in Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Among these competitions were the 13th International Brahms Competition in Portschach (Austria) and the 1st International Violin Competition "Torun 2007", K. Shymanovsky in memorium (Poland). He got a grant from the Vladimir Spivakov Fund in the form of a violin and a financial award that was initiated by Maestro Spivakov personally. Further special awards were given by the "New Names" Fund and the "Russian Art" Fund.

Artiom Shishkov performs regularly in Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia, and Armenia. Having participated numerous times in Belgium's Musica Mundi Course and festival he is now a member of its Young Faculty of teachers.

Since 2011, Artiom Shishkov is situated in Vienna and studies with Prof. Dora Schwarzberg Universität fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst.

Anna Lipkind
Anna was born in Moscow into a musical surrounding that is deeply rooted in the string playing traditions passed by David Oistrakh (Viktor Pikaizin & Semyon Snitkovsky), Mikhail Garlicky, Zinaida Gilels and the original Borodin Quartet members.
 
She began her violin studies at an extremely young age with her mother Elena Mazor and from the age of 5 with Prof. Irina Svetlova in Tel-Aviv. At this early stage Anna was privileged to enjoy the direct influence of some of the greatest violinists of the last century: Zakhar Bron, Boris Kuschnir, Salvatore Accardo, Victor Danchenko, Ida Haendel, Shlomo Mintz, Miriam Fried, Thomas Brandis, Petru Monteanu, Itzhak Perlman, Ivry Gitlis, Tsugio Tokunaga, Georgy Pauk, to mention just a few.

Anna’s first performance with orchestra was at the age of six. Giving frequent recitals and radio performances in Israel, she often traveled to international festivals as well, such as Vladimir Spivakov’s Moscow Meets Friends, Natalya Gutman’s (Oleg Kagan) Festival in Kreuth in Germany, Portogruaro Festival and Lucca Festival in Italy, Miyazaki festival in Japan, Queen Violin Festival in Moldova, Viana Festival in Portugal and Eilat Festival in Israel collaborating with musician such as Peter Donohoe, Pavel Gililov, Grigory Kalinovsky, Julian Rachlin, Maxim Vengerov, Stacey Watton, Pinchas Zukerman. Radio performances with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, National Chamber Orchestra of Moldova, Symphony Orchestra of Chisinau as well as Synphonieta Baden and other smaller groups followed.

At the age of 16, a debut performance with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra under the button of Zubin Mehta lead to Anna’s moving to Europe to study with Pavel Vernikov at the Vienna Conservatory where she became a prize winner of four International Competitions. Anna lives today in Berlin with her husband, the cellist Gavriel Lipkind. Despite her soloist’s background and experience, she always found her true passion in chamber music.

Anna is a member of the Lipkind Quartet and a co-producer of the ‘LIPKIND plays…’ series. An early recipient of the AICF and Buchman-Heimann yearly Scholarships. Plays a Lorenzo Ventapane violin on loan by Prof. Pavel Vernikov.

Viacheslav Dinerchtein
Violist Viacheslav Dinerchtein has appeared as soloist with orchestra, in recitals and chamber music concerts throughout North and South America and Europe, including venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Kennedy Center (Washington), Centro Nacional de las Artes and Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico City), Sociedad Filarmónica de Lima (Peru), Teatro Nacional (Ecuador), in concert series for the U.S. State Department, International Viola Congresses (USA, South Africa, Germany), the Spoleto Music Festival (Italy), the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts (Chicago), the Niagara Music Festival (Canada), among numerous others.

Dinerchtein has been featured in television and radio broadcasts. With Roland Vamos he premiered William Primrose's transcription of Bartok's 44 Duets for Two Violins. He is a dedicatee of several compositions for viola, including winners of important competitions for composers. He is president of the SwissViola Society, a recording artist for the Quindecim label, and an editor for the string music publishing company Ovation Press.

Viacheslav studied with his father Boris Dinerchtein, with Joseph de Pasquale (Master of Music, Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University), and with Roland Vamos (Doctor of Musical Arts, Northwestern University). Mr. Dinerchtein was born in Minsk, Belarus, grew up in Mexico City, and now resides with his wife and two children in Zürich, Switzerland.

2014/2015
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