Sergey Ostrovsky - Violin

Born in 1975 in Gorky (Russia), Sergey Ostrovsky is a winner of the First Prize in the Aviv Competitions in Tel Aviv (1999) and 5th place in the international Rudolf Lipizer competition (1995 Italy).

Sergey Ostrovsky started his violin studies at the age of 6 with David Lapidus. In 1989 he continued his education in the Music High School of the Art Academy in Gorky. During his studies, Sergey Ostrovsky won many national competitions and performed with the Gorky Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow Philharmonic. After his immigration to Israel in 1991, he continued his studies with Prof. Yair Kless and Irena Svetlova in the Tel Aviv Rubin Music Academy (Tel Aviv University) and graduated from the Royal Music Academy in Rotterdam.

During 1993-1995 he served the IDF as an "Outstanding Musician" in their special education program. Between 1994-1996 he was the leading concertmaster of the Young Israel Philharmonic, with whom he performed as soloist in various international tours (Switzerland, Spain and Russia). Mr. Ostrovsky held the concertmaster position with the Israel Chamber Orchestra (1995-1997) and the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra (1997-1998). Apart from leading the respective orchestras, he also played as their soloist under the batons of Philip Entremont, Zeev Dorman and Doron Salomon.
In March 2000, he debuted with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Uriel Segal to great public and critic acclaim. Mr. Ostrovsky is invited by the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra to perform both Mendelssohn and Sibelius concerti in July 2001.

In 1997, Sergey Ostrovsky founded the Aviv String Quartet (former name "Johannes Quartet"), with which he won the GRAND PRIX as "The Best Chamber Ensemble and Best Quartet" at the International Melbourne Chamber Music Competition. The Aviv Quartet also won the first prize at the Charles Hennen Competition (1999 Holland), a prize named after the Amadeus Quartet, and a second place at the Chech Republic "Spring Competition" (1998).
The Aviv Quartet, lead by Sergey Ostrovsky is scholarshiped by the Alban Berg Quartet (in Cologne, Germany) and in Rotterdam by Ben Zion Shamir.
The Aviv String Quartet performs regularly in Israel, Holland, Germany, Australia, USA (Carnegie Hall) Auditorium Louvre (Paris), and Wigmore Hall (London), and recently toured China.

Sergey Ostrovsky is a regular Scholarship recipient of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation since 1992.

Sergey Ostrovsky is represented by Uri Zur

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