T19. A11
SALE OF INDIVIDUAL ENTRY: From August 1, 2025
ANDREY BARANOV. Violin
Andrey Baranov won the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition in 2012, as well as the Benjamin Britten and Henri Marteau international competitions, and received awards in over twenty international competitions, including those in Indianapolis, Seoul, Sendai, Liana Isakadze, David Oistrakh, and the Paganini International Competition in Moscow.
Born in St. Petersburg in 1986 to a family of musicians, he began playing the violin at age five. He studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg and the Lausanne Conservatory under Lev Ivaschenko, Vladimir Ovcharek, and Pierre Amoyal. He also took masterclasses with prominent musicians such as Boris Kushnir, Liana Isakadze, and Kim Kashkashian, among others.
Since his major debut in 2005 at the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall with the Philharmonic Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko, he has performed at world-renowned venues such as Brussels’ Bozar, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, London’s Cadogan Hall, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall, and again at the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.
He has performed as a soloist with prestigious orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Liverpool Philharmonic, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Brussels Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, MusicAeterna Orchestra, Aalborg Symphony, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Sendai Philharmonic, and SWR Stuttgart Symphony. He has worked with conductors such as Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Fedoseev, Teodor Currentzis, Kent Nagano, Vasily Petrenko, Michael Sanderling, Daniel Raiskin, Nikolai Alekseev, Michel Tabachnik, Walter Weller, Gabriel Bebeselea, Ion Marin, and Emmanuel Krivine, among others.
He has also shared the stage with artists like Martha Argerich, Eliso Virsaladze, Julian Rachlin, Boris Andrianov, Pierre Amoyal, and Liana Isakadze.
His performances have been broadcast worldwide by stations such as BR Classic, Radio Orpheus, Espace 2 (Switzerland), YLE Radio (Finland), WFYI and WFMT Chicago (USA), and NHK Sendai (Japan).
Andrey Baranov is also the first violin of the David Oistrakh Quartet, an ensemble founded in 2012 and critically acclaimed. They have performed at prestigious festivals and venues such as Paris’ Philharmonie, London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, Prague Spring Festival, Stars on Baikal, Valencia’s Palau de la Música, Barcelona’s Auditori, Bratislava Festival, Budapest’s Liszt Academy, Gulbenkian Foundation, and Dortmund’s Konzerthaus.
ROSSEN MILANOV. Guest Conductor
Rossen Milanov is currently Music Director of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and Principal Conductor of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra in Ljubljana. Respected and admired by both audiences and musicians, he has established a prominent national and international presence as a conductor.
His previous roles include Music Director of the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra in Sofia, Symphony in C in New Jersey, and the Principality of Asturias Symphony Orchestra (OSPA) in Spain.
In the United States, he has conducted orchestras such as the Colorado, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Seattle, Fort Worth, and National Symphony at the Kennedy Center. He has worked with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s on educational projects with Carnegie Hall and with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.
Internationally, he has collaborated with the BBC Symphony, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Rotterdam Philharmonic, and national orchestras of Latvia, Hungary, and Aalborg, as well as the Toronto, Vancouver, Mexico, Colombia, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, and New Zealand symphonies. In Asia, he has conducted the NHK, Sapporo, Tokyo, Singapore, and Malaysia and Hong Kong philharmonics.
He has worked with renowned artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Renée Fleming, Midori, Hilary Hahn, Dawn Upshaw, and André Watts, among others. For 11 years, he conducted over 200 concerts with The Philadelphia Orchestra, and he was director of Symphony in C for 15 years and the New Symphony Orchestra in Sofia for 17 years.
Passionate about contemporary music, he has premiered works by composers such as Derek Bermel, Mason Bates, Caroline Shaw, Philip Glass, Richard Danielpour, Nicolas Maw, and Gabriel Prokofiev.
In opera and ballet, he has conducted at the Komische Oper Berlin (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Opera Oviedo (Mazeppa, Bluebeard’s Castle), and productions at Opera Columbus and The Princeton Festival, where he has been Music Director since 2022. In ballet, he has worked with the New York City Ballet and choreographers like Mats Ek, Benjamin Millepied, and Alexei Ratmansky, collaborating with the latter on an acclaimed production of Swan Lake in Zurich and Paris.
He has been awarded the Columbus Foundation Arts Prize. In Princeton, he has driven artistic innovation and strong community ties. Milanov studied conducting at the Bulgarian Music Academy, Curtis Institute, Tanglewood, and Juilliard, where he received the Bruno Walter Scholarship.
An avid cyclist and cook, he dedicates his culinary talents to charitable causes. He is a former fellow and current board member of the Cyril and Methodius Foundation in Bulgaria.
