Yuri Bondarev

Yury Bondarev was born in Leningrad (St Petersburg). After studying violin at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Prof. S. Picard and Prof. M. Mücke, he switched to viola and was accepted into Prof. Tatjana Masurenko's class at the Leipzig Academy of Music, where he also took his concert exam. Regular solo and chamber music performances have taken him to Austria, Italy, France, Greece, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Japan and other countries. As a soloist and chamber musician in various ensembles, he has performed at the Vienna Musikverein, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Milan Conservatory, the Alte Oper Frankfurt and the Düsseldorf Tonhalle. He gained his first important orchestral experience with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic with conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Kurt Masur, Daniel Harding, Dmitrij Kitaenko, Christopher Hogwood, Herbert Blomstedt and many others.
He has been deputy principal violist with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra since 2009 and has taught viola and violin at the A. Rubinstein Academy in Düsseldorf since the 2012/2013 winter term.