Nikita Borisoglebsky is a Russian violinist, a soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic and a prizewinner at international competitions. He was born on 30 August 1985 in Volgodonsk, into a family of chemists. He began studying music at the age of six, first playing piano and then violin at the Dmitri Shostakovich Children's Music School No. 1. At the age of ten, he appeared with the Rostov Philharmonic Orchestra in Giovanni Battista Viotti's Violin Concerto No. 22.
At fourteen, Borisoglebsky entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Eduard Grach and Tatyana Berkul. While a student, he attended courses at the Keshet Eilon summer school in Israel, including masterclasses with Ida Haendel and Shlomo Mintz. He also joined the Muscovy chamber orchestra and progressed from an orchestral desk player to concertmaster.
In 2001 he became an artist of the Moscow Philharmonic, and two years later became one of its soloists. In 2005 he entered postgraduate study at the Moscow Conservatory, researching English violin music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He also studied abroad with Augustin Dumay at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and with Ana Chumachenko at the Kronberg Academy. In Belgium he was provided with the Antonio Stradivari violin Il Piatti, an instrument that helped him further develop his performing technique.
Borisoglebsky represented Russia at the 2002 Eurovision Young Musicians competition in Berlin, though he did not advance to the final. He has since performed widely in Russia and internationally, and has stated that he deliberately brought to an end a lengthy stage of his career centered on major competitions. Since 2010 he has been represented by IMG Artists and has collaborated with the Franco-Belgian recording company Outhere. That year he presented the programme Three Tchaikovskys, performing concertos by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Boris Tchaikovsky and Alexander Tchaikovsky.
His competition distinctions include first prizes at the Kloster Schöntal Violin Competition in 2003, the David Oistrakh Violin Competition in Moscow in 2007, the Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna in 2010, and the Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki in 2010. He received second prize and five special prizes at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2007, fifth prize and an award for the best performance of a contemporary work at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2009, and the Grand Prix at the Monte Carlo Violin Masters in 2013. He was named Violinist of the Year by the Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin International Foundation in 2009 and received the title Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in 2018.
His repertoire ranges from Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Schubert, Elgar and Brahms to Britten, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Penderecki, Schnittke, Berio and Bartók. Rodion Shchedrin and Alexander Tchaikovsky have entrusted him with performances of their works. Kuzma Bodrov wrote four works for him: a Violin Concerto with Orchestra (2004), Caprice for Violin and Orchestra (2008), the Rhine Sonata for Violin and Piano (2009), and a Concerto for Violin and Choir in Memory of Boris Tevlin (2012).
Borisoglebsky has appeared at festivals including the Salzburg Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, December Nights of Sviatoslav Richter in Moscow, Stars of the White Nights in St. Petersburg, and La Folle Journée in Yekaterinburg. He has performed with orchestras including the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Vienna Radio, the London Chamber Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. His collaborators have included Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Krzysztof Penderecki, Yuri Bashmet, Sakari Oramo and Hannu Lintu. In 2014, he and five musicians from different countries founded the Rubik Ensemble.