Yuri Korchinsky

Yuri Korchinsky was a Ukrainian-Russian violinist. He was born in Lviv on 16 March 1953 and began studying the violin there at the age of five. He graduated from the Lviv Conservatory, where one of his teachers was Alexander Weisfeld, and then continued his advanced studies at the Moscow Conservatory as a postgraduate student under Pyotr Bondarenko, David Oistrakh, and Dmitry Tsyganov.

Korchinsky gained major international recognition as a prizewinner in leading violin competitions. In 1975 he received first prize at the Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa, and in 1981 he also won the Vaclav Huml Violin Competition in Zagreb.

During the 1970s and 1980s he taught at the Moscow Conservatory and was active as an ensemble performer. He played, in particular, with the Mozart Quartet and the Rachmaninoff Trio, and made two recordings for the Melodiya label. As a soloist he appeared with conductors including Stepan Turchak, Kirill Kondrashin, and Neeme Jarvi.

He also directed the chamber orchestra of the All-Union Musical Society and prepared with it a series of programs for All-Union Radio devoted to the music of Antonio Vivaldi. Among the soloists who appeared with this ensemble were Alexander Kniazev, Mikhail Bezverkhny, and Sergei Stadler. In 1988, the creative association Ekran released a concert film dedicated to him, titled Music of My City, directed by Yuri Saakov.

From 1990 Korchinsky lived and worked in Germany. He led the Dortmund Quartet and taught at music academies in Germany, Italy, Belgium, France, and Croatia. On his website he published a number of books and articles on violin teaching methodology.

Korchinsky was married to the pianist Nina Kogan, daughter of Leonid Kogan, and he performed and recorded with her as a duo. He died of a stroke on 20 April 2014 in Krasnogorsk and was buried at the Penyaginskoye Cemetery in the Moscow Region.

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