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Proclaimed "Artist
of the Year" by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and
the Toronto Women's Musical Club, and winner of the Young Canadian
Musician Award in 2000, Yegor Dyachkov enjoying a rich and multi-faceted
career. "Clearly a very polished and sensitive cellist of great
class" (Olivier Philipponnat, Paru.com), he has drawn the praise
of audiences and critics at home and abroad for the intensity
and richness of his playing, his remarkably mature musicianship
and the diversity of his repertoire. “Dyachkov is undoubtedly
a cellist of great stature: the natural bowing, the rich, deep
sound, the total concentration, the interpretative sense, he
has it all.” (Claude Gingras, La Presse, Montreal).
An inspired recitalist and chamber musician and respected orchestral
soloist, he has performed throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America,
Canada and the United States. In addition to a concert schedule
including invitations from such noted ensembles as the Orchestre
Symphonique de Montréal, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra,
the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders, the CBC Radio Orchestra,
I Musici de Montreal, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, les Violons
du Roy and the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, he has also performed
at a wide array of festivals such as those in Évian, Kronberg,
Prussia Cove, Tanglewood, Ottawa, Lanaudière and Vancouver.
These engagements have lead to many invaluable partnerships with
outstanding ensembles and interpreters. Deeply committed to chamber
music, Yegor Dyachkov has performed with the Arditti, Arthur-Leblanc,
Borromeo and St. Lawrence Quartets, pianists Jean Saulnier, Lois
Shapiro, Anton Kuerti and Stéphane Lemelin, violinists
James Clark, Jonathan Crow, Antje Weithaas, Scott St. John and
Yehonatan Berick, cellist Steven Isserlis, and clarinetists James
Campbell, Todd Palmer and André Moisan. In year 2007,
he founded Ensemble Magellan, with violinist Olivier Thouin,
violist Yukari Cousineau and pianist Jean Saulnier. He is also
part of Triple Forte, with violinist Jasper Wood and pianist
David Jalbert.
Yegor Dyachkov accords a prominent place to contemporary music
in his repertoire. He gave the premier performances of several
works that are dedicated to him: the Sonata by Jacques Hétu,
Ironman for cello and orchestra and The Agate Rosary for cello
and piano by Michael Oesterle, Vez for solo cello by Ana Sokolovic,
as well as Menuhin : Présence, a concerto written for
him by the late André Prévost. He was the soloist
for both the first French and the first Canadian performances
of Giya Kancheli's Diplipito for cello, counter-tenor and orchestra.
He has also been invited by Yo-Yo Ma and Sony Music to take part
in the Silk Road Project.
Born in Moscow in 1974, Yegor Dyachkov studied with Aleksandr
Fedorchenko at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and Yuli Turovsky
at the University of Montreal. From 1995 to 1998, he enjoyed
the rare privilege of being one of two people to study under
Boris Pergamenschikov at the Hochschule in Cologne.
Although he continues to favour live performance, recording is
a way to extend his horizons. Winning the Orford International
Competition in 1997 led to an invitation from the Chandos label
to record his debut CD featuring Glazunov's Concerto Ballata.
He subsequently made critically acclaimed recordings including
sonatas by Brahms (Analekta), works by Prokofiev and Stravinsky
(Analekta), the cello concerto by Dvorak (Riche Lieu), the sonatas
by Shostakovich, Schnittke and Prokofiev (Pelléas, Opus
Prize 2001), works by Jacques Hétu and André Prévost
(Doberman-Yppan), as well as sonatas by Strauss and Pfitzner
(Brioso). His performances have been broadcast and televised
in Canada and abroad.
The breadth of Yegor Dyachov's musical commitment also extends
to teaching master classes and to maintaining a dialogue with
young musicians. He teaches at the Schulich School of Music of
McGill University, and at the Domaine Forget Academy.
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