Former Moscow classmates performing together for the first time!

About the Artists

Mariya Borozina was born in Moscow. At the age of five, following in the footsteps of her violinist father, she began her studies at the Gnessins School of Music. She graduated from Moscow Conservatory, class of Marina Yashvili, and Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Glenn Dicterow, Lisa Kim, Yoko Takebe, and Albert Markov.

Participation in international festivals and orchestras took her around the world: over the last decade she took part in Verbier Festival, Lucerne Festival, Attergau Festival, Russian-American Youth Orchestra, Key West, and Spoleto USA. This summer, as a member of the UBS Verbier Chamber Orchestra, she traveled to Festival del Sole in Napa Valley, Verbier Festival, and Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy.

Ms.Borozina plays in the first violin sections of the San Francico Ballet and San Francisco Opera Orchestras. She also performs with other orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony and Midsummer Mozart Festival. Mariya has always divided her time between playing orchestral and chamber music. As a member of the Moscow-based Vainberg String Quartet she toured from Ivanovo to Leipzig. Her other appearances included recitals in New York, Ecuador, Tokyo, and Omaha, Nebraska. Locally, Mariya often performs with the leading Bay Area instrumentalists. She plays in Eos Ensemble and is a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Noontime Concert Series.

 

Dmitri Shteinberg has appeared across North America, Germany, England, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Bulgaria and Israel. His solo performances include the Jerusalem Symphony, The Italian Philarmonica Marchetiana, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Israel Camerata Orchestra and Porto National Symphony; he was a guest artist at the Sarasota and Summit Music Festivals, Music Festival of the Hamptons, the Oleg Kagan Festival in Germany, Festival Aix-en-Provence in France and Open Chamber Music in Cornwall, England. Recent concerts include a tour of Florida and the Gulf Coast and recitals and master classes in Russia. Called "protean and refined" by the New York Times, Shteinberg recorded for the Israeli "Voice of Music" radio station, WQXR, WHMT, the Bavarian Radio and the Yamaha Disklavier; collaborated with New York Philharmonic members and the cellists Han-Na Chang and Natalia Gutman.

Besides solo and chamber music performances, Shteinberg frequently appears with concert-lectures; also plays harpsichord and period pianos. His interest in new music has led to world premieres and numerous commissions.

Dmitri Shteinberg is a prizewinner in twenty competitions worldwide, including the first prize in "Citta de Senigallia" International Competition in Italy. In the United States, he won the Naomi Foundation Competition and the Artists International Debut Award, and received the Salon De Virtuosi Fellowship Grant.

A native of Moscow, Dmitri Shteinberg studied at the Gnessin Special School of Music under Anna Kantor, teacher of Evgeny Kissin. His later teachers include Victor Derevianko and Nina Svetlanova, both students of Heinrich Neuhaus. Shteinberg holds a Doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Piano Area at the Virginia Commonwealth University. He is also on faculty at the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, VT.