Acclaimed as “a player of impressive authority and presence” (The Strad) and “one of the top violinists of tomorrow” (Diapason), Yossif Ivanov, at the age of 24, has quickly established himself as one of the leading violinists of the young generation. He was awarded the First Prize at the Montreal International Competition at the young age of 16, and the Second Prize as well as the Public Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels at the age of 18.

Over the last years Yossif Ivanov has made acclaimed debuts in all major European cities such as London (London Philharmonic Orchestra), Berlin (Konzerthausorchester), Paris (Salle Pleyel, Cité de la Musique and Louvre), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Vienna (Konzerthaus), Salzburg (Mozarteum) and Geneva (Orchestre de la Suisse Romande). During the past season, he got very good press for his orchestral debuts in the USA (on tour with London Philharmonic and Vladimir Jurowski) and in Asia (Malaysian Philharmonic and Singapore Symphony Orchestra).
Yossif Ivanov has been invited to play recitals at, among many others, the Menton & Montpellier Festivals in France, the Philharmonie Essen and the Beethovenfest Bonn in Germany, the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti Roma, the Carnegie Hall in New York and the Ladies’ Morning Musical Club in Montréal. Apart from his regular recital partners Itamar Golan and Philippe Ivanov, he also collaborated with the pianists Ingrid Fliter, Frank Braley, David Kadouch and Plamena Mangova.

As an orchestral soloist, he has performed with orchestras such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Residentie Orkest The Hague, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Lille and all the major orchestras in Belgium. He has worked with well-known conductors such as Neëme Järvi, Marin Alsop, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Vladimir Jurowski, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Philippe Herreweghe, Jaap Van Zweden, Kees Bakels, Yuri Simonov, John Axelrod and Yoel Levi.

Highlights of the nexts seasons include his debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI, the Orchestra di Milano Verdi (conducted by Muhai Tang), the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Rotterdams Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin), the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (conducted by Jesus Lopez-Cobos), the Green Bay Symphony and the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also reinvited to perform with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic (two concerts in Belgium) and with the Orcheste Philharmonique de Liège (concerts in Warsaw, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Brussels and Liège), and will play recitals in San Juan (Puerto Rico), Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium.

In November 2006, his first CD on the Ambroisie/Naïve label was awarded a Diapason d’Or de l’Année, the most important recording industry award in France. His first concerto CD, a coupling of the first concerto of Shostakovitch and the second of Bartók, was very well received by the musical press. For his second orchestral disc, which will include works of Henri Dutilleux and will be released later this year, Yossif Ivanov collaborated with the Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon and Kazushi Ono.

Yossif Ivanov has studied the violin with Zakhar Bron, Igor & Valery Oistrakh and Augustin Dumay. He is the youngest violin teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
Yossif Ivanov plays on the 1699 “Lady Tennant” Stradivarius, kindly lent by the Stradivarius Society of Chicago.

Discography
* BARTÓK, B: Violin Concerto no.2 – SHOSTAKOVICH, D: Violin Concerto no.1 – with Royal Flemish Philharmonic conducted by Pinchas Steinberg – Ambroisie/Naïve 2008 – AM 175
* “CON PASSIONE”: Works for violin and piano of Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Chausson, Kreisler, Sarasate, Shchedrin and Waxman – with Itamar Golan, piano – Ambroisie/Naïve 2008 – AM 136
* FRANCK, C: Sonata for violin and piano in A major – YSAYE, E: Sonata for violin solo opus 27 – D’HAENE, R: Sonata for violin and piano – Ambroisie/Naïve 2006 – AM 102
* Violin Concertos of H Dutilleux & R D’Haene with Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon & Kazushi Ono

July 2010

You can listen to Yossif Ivanov on:
http://www.cobra.be/cm/1.676261?view=popupPlayer
http://www.naive.fr/#/work/shostakovitch-bartok-violin-concertos
http://www.naive.fr/#/work/con-passione
http://www.naive.fr/#/work/franck-ysaye-d-haene-sonates-pour-violon
http://www.rsr.ch/espace-2/tribune-jeunes-musiciens/selectedDate/18/11/2007#dimanche

Pictures on the following link:
http://wannabes.be/slideshow.php?id=1565&title=Yossif+Ivanov+%26+Itamar+Golan