SVETLIN ROUSSEV  VIOLIN

Charismatic violinist, Svetlin ROUSSEV performs the violin repertoire
from the baroque period to contemporary music. Unforgettable in slav music he is, in particular,
propagator of Bulgarian music. Svetlin ROUSSEV is Musician of the Year 2006 in Bulgaria,
and was awarded in 2007 the Cristal Lyra, distinction of the Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria.

Invited as a soloist by different orchestras in the United-States, Latin America, Asia and ­Europe,
he played under conductors as Myung-Whun Chung, Léon Fleisher, Yehudi Menuhin,
Yuzo Toyama, Marek Janowski, Raymond Leppard, John Axelrod, Arie Van Beek,
François-Xavier Roth, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Denis Russel-Davies...
Svetlin ROUSSEV has played in many prestigious concert halls such as Salle Pleyel,
Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre de la Ville, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées or Cité de la Musique
and Palais de l'UNESCO in Paris, Halle aux Grains of Toulouse, Palais des Beaux Arts of Brussels,
Alte Oper of Francfort, the Palace of Culture in ­Budapest, the Sumida Triphony Center Hall
and Suntory Hall of Tokyo, the Seoul Arts Center or the Bolchoï in Moscow...

In chamber music, Svetlin ROUSSEV encounters partners such as Myung-Whun Chung,
Jean-Marc Luisada, Philippe Cassard, Éric Le Sage, Antoine Tamestit, Vladimir Mendelssohn,
Xavier Philips, Paul Meyer, Philippe Bernold, and also cellist François Salque
and pianist Elena Rozanova; together they form the Roussev-Salque-Rozanova Trio.

Svetlin ROUSSEV begins very early the violin with his mother, professor
at the music school of Ruse, his home town in Bulgaria, before entering in 199
the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the classes
of Gérard Poulet, Dévy Erlih and Jean-Jacques Kantorow.
Before starting an international career, Svetlin ROUSSEV was prize-winner
of many international competitions (Indianapolis, Long-Thibaud, Melbourne...).
Svetlin was voted “Revelation of the year 2000” by the ADAMI
at the french industry music festival Midem of Cannes and was selected
for sponsorship by the Natexis-Banques Populaires Corporate Foundation.
In 2001, Svetlin was awarded First Prize, along with two Special Prizes
at the 1st Sendaï Inter­national Competition, in Japan.
Refusing divisions, Svetlin ROUSSEV is also Concert­master of the Radio France
Philharmonic Orchestra, and since 2007,
Principal Guest Concert­master of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.
He also plays as a soloist without conductor in France, as well as abroad.

After the success of his recording of pieces by Pancho Vladiguerov with the pianist Elena Rozanova,
his recording of Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Concerto Funèbre,
with the Orchestre d'Auvergne conducted by Arie Van Beek was released.
He has just been appointed violin professor
at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.

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