Dmitry Yablonsky

Dmitry Yablonsky was born into a musical family in Moscow in 1962. His mother, Oxana Yablonskaya, is an internationally renowned pianist who taught at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, and his father was principal oboist with the Moscow Radio Television Orchestra. At the age of six, Yablonsky was accepted into the Central School for Gifted Children in Moscow, and at the age of nine, he made his solo debut with an orchestra performing Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C Major. In 1977 Dmitry Yablonsky immigrated to the United States to continue his studies at the Juilliard School of Music, the Curtis Institute, and later at Yale University.

As a soloist she has performed all over the world including: Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw Hall, La Scala, Moscow and St. Petersburg State Opera, Taiwan National Hall and many more. She has collaborated with conductors such as Hiroyuki Iwaki, Dmitry Kitaenko, Vladimir Fedoseev, and Kzistof Penderecki playing his cello concerto, and many more.

In chamber music, he has performed with his mother, Oxana Yablonskaya, Victor Tretiakov, Yuri Bashmet, Vadim Repin, Boris Berezovsky, Jean Bernard Pommier, Leif Ove Andsnes, and many others. Yablonsky has conducted the American premiere of Luigi Boccherini’s Sonata No. 26 and a cello concerto by Anton Filtz. In 1990, Yablonsky was invited to conduct the Igor Stravinsky Octet in Camerino, Italy, with members of Rome’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra. Having been interested in conducting since the age of 18, he also began a career as a conductor. At Yale, he studied with the legendary conducting professor Otto-Werner Muller, and from 1992 he studied with Yuri Simonov, who was chief conductor of the Bolshoi Opera for 17 years.

As a conductor he has collaborated with such great soloists as Y. Bashmet, V. Repin, B. Berezovsky, M. Caballé, R. Alagna, etc. Dmitry Yablonsky has collaborated with such major orchestras as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra (guest conductor 2000-2004), the Novoya Rossiya Orchestra (principal guest conductor 2012), the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Antwerpen Orchestra, the New Zealand Orchestra, the Maastricht Orchestra, the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National d’Ille de France, the National Orchestra of Taiwan, the Catania Opera Orchestra, the Holland Symphonia Orchestra, the Bologna Chamber Orchestra, the Ofunam of Mexico, etc. Yablonsky has performed in recital in many European countries, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and South Africa.

In 1998 Dmitry Yablonsky founded the summer festival on the border between France and Spain, in the Pyrenees, called Puigcerdà Music Festival, where musicians from all over the world come to perform and teach.

Yablonsky has recorded over 100 discs for labels including Naxos-Marco Polo, Erato, Conoisseur Soc, EMS, Discover, Sonora, Bel Air Music, and Chandos. He recorded the world premiere of Nino Rota’s cello concerto for Chandos. Naxos released his recording of Popper’s 40 Etudes for Solo Cello in the fall of 2008, which received critical acclaim. One of his most famous recordings is Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich’s Trio for Strings and Piano with Repin and Berezovsky for the Erato label, which won numerous awards. In 2010 Yablonsky was awarded the Diploma of Honorary Academician of the Independent Academy of Liberal Arts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has transcribed and edited works for cello, which have been published by International Music Company and Dover Publications.

He has an enthusiastic and charismatic character that has led him to initiate many projects and organize many festivals in different places around the world, including the International Gabala Festival in Azerbaijan and the Wandering Stars Festival, which takes place in different places around the world every year such as Israel, Russia, the United States, and many more. In the 2021-2022 season, Dmitry will debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

He teaches cello, chamber music and is the director of international relations at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University. Dmitry performs on two cellos: a Joseph Filius Andrea Guarneri (1726) and a Matteo Goffriller (1700).