Biography
Grigory Filipchenko was born in Moscow in 1998. He started playing the cello at the age of 5. Grigory studied at Gnessin’s Special Music School in Moscow in the class of Lyudmila Kruzhkova. In 2021, he graduated with excellence from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (class of Professors Natalia Shakhovskaya and Boris Andrianov). He also pursued a master’s degree at the Moscow Conservatory in the classes of Boris Andrianov and Vladimir Balshin. Currently, he is studying at the University Mozarteum Salzburg in the class of Professor Enrico Bronzi, and chamber music in the class of Professor Pavel Gililov.
In 2015, Grigory received the main prize of the project "The Strings 2015" and was invited by the Branimir Slokar Academy in Slovenia to participate in master courses and perform solo concerts with an orchestra. In 2016, he served as a jury member at the musical competition-festival "Cello-Bass" in Moscow. He is the recipient of special scholarship grants from the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation and the Denis Matsuev Foundation "New Names," and is a regular participant in the projects of the St. Petersburg House of Music, subscription concerts of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and the project "Moscow International Summer Gnessins School." He is also a scholarship winner of the Moscow Government. In 2019, he received the Gazprom Bank Award.
Grigory Filipchenko has been a guest soloist with orchestras such as the Symphony Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Ljubljana Symphony, "Gnessins Virtuosi," and the Philharmonic Orchestras of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Smolensk, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, and the Moscow Conservatory Orchestra, among others. He has performed at many prominent music festivals, including Vladimir Spivakov’s Moscow Meets Friends, the "New Names" Foundation Festival, "January Evenings" and "Virtuoso" in Moscow, Peregrinos Musicales in Spain, the Winter International Festival of Arts in Sochi, the Festival of Classical Music in Pula, Croatia, “Festival Nights” in Vienna, Austria, and Accordi Musicali in Pescara, Italy.
Grigory tours worldwide, including performances in Hong Kong, China, and Italy, where he has given solo concerts in renowned venues.
Grigory has participated in master classes with David Geringas, Wen-Sinn Yang, Jens Peter Maintz, Claudio Bohorquez, Raphael Wallfisch, Martti Rousi, Dmitri Feigin, Eleonora Testelez, Leonid Gorokhov, Alexander Chaushian, Nonna Natsvlishvili, and Stefan Popov. For many years, he studied with Professor Dmitry Miller of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
Grigory is the winner of numerous international music competitions, including The Night in Madrid in Spain, the 6th International Music Competition named after Sviridov, the XII Savshinsky International Music Competition (2021), the Kazan Conservatory Music Competition (2020), the Città di Padova International Competition (Italy, 2021), the France Music Competition and International Music Competition (France, 2022), the Vienna International Competition (Vienna, 2024), and the Radda Rise International String Competition (2024).
He has collaborated with musicians such as Yuri Simonov, Felix Korobov, Boris Andrianov, Vladimir Balshin, Georgy Gusev, Tatiana Grindenko, Mikhail Shekhtman, Alim Shakh, Maximino Zumalave, David Braid, Alexander Titov, and Oxana Lomova.