Julian rachlin tchaikovsky biography
With a career spanning more than thirty years, Rachlin has taken his multifaceted interests across the globe as a conductor, soloist, chamber musician, teacher.!
Born in Lithuania, Rachlin emigrated to Vienna with his family at the age of three, where he studied violin under the renowned Boris Kuschnir at the Musik.
Strad Magazine
Violin Julian Rachlin was heavily influenced by his teacher, Boris Kuschnir, but he refuses to be defined as having a russian sound. Tim Stein caught up with him in London.
Surfing the net for the latest news on the young, Lithuanian-born violinist Julian Rachlin, you can’t help but be bowled over by the endless list of glowing epithets: ‘An amazing combination of intellect and flair’; ‘Phenomenal’; ‘Breathtaking’.
One admirer (and fellow musician) even wrote, ‘I defy anyone to find me another fiddler, past or present, with his sotto voce sound’, evidently overawed by this latest musical hotshot. Praise indeed. Of course such hyperbole is bandied about so often that you begin to wonder about its accuracy.
But when the praise also comes from the likes of Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Mariss Jansons, Mstislav Rostropovich and Pinchas Zukerman (to name but a few), you step back and think again.
Meeting me at his age