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\n17 December @15.30-19.30 in B-302<\/p>\n
Roman Mints is one of the most outstanding and original musicians of his generation, named \u201cunofficial leader of the new generation of musicians\u201d by Nezavisimaya newspaper and has collaborated with violinists Gidon Kremer, Alina Ibragimova, Boris Brovtsyn, Alexander Sitkovetsky; flautist Sharon Bezaly, oboists Dmitri Bulgakov and Nicholas Daniel; pianists Katya Apekisheva, Ingrid Fliter, Alexander Kobrin, Charles Owen, Vadym Kholodenko, Andrey Gugnin, Lukas Geniu\u0161as; cellists Boris Andrianov, Kristina Blaumane, Jamie Walton, Alexander Buzlov and Thomas Caroll; violists Maxim Rysanov and Nils M\u00f6nkemeyer; singers Gweneth-Ann Jeffers, William Purefoy, Anna Dennis. He hasworked alongside conductors Andrew Davis, Saulius Sondeckis, Vladimir Ziva, Vladimir Ponkin, Philipp Chizhevsky; amongst others.<\/p>\n
He has performed with such prominent groups as London Mozart Players, London Chamber Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Musica Viva Orchestra, Russian Philharmonia, Kremerata Baltica, Prague Soloists and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra.<\/p>\n
Roman has recorded for ECM, Harmonia Mundi, Quartz, Melodiya and other labels, his albums featuring a number of world-premiere recordings. An album of works by Dobrinka Tabakova for ECM was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium. His recording of solo violin music, with an innovative recording approach invented by Roman and dubbed \u201cspatial orchestration,\u201d was a CD of the week at WQXR Radio New York and on the annual wish list of Fanfare magazine critics. The album of Leonid Desyatnikov\u2019s music for violin and orchestra was nominated for ICMA Award and received a Five Stars review for performance and recording with BBC Music Magazine. His album of Hindemith Sonatas with pianist Alexander Kobrin won a \u201cSupersonic Award\u201d from Pizzicato Magazine.<\/p>\n
Roman has given world premieres of over fifty works by Tabakova, Desyatnikov, Langer, Bennett, Irvine, Burrell, Filanovsky, Kourliandsky, Kurbatov and others.<\/p>\n
In April 2002, Roman co directed the Suppressed Music project in Russia, which comprised of two concerts and a conference on composers whose music had been suppressed. A book and CD were released as a result of this project by the Klassika XXI Publishing House.<\/p>\n
Outside the classical field, Roman has worked with free-improvising saxophonist Paul Dunmall, vocalist Alisa Ten, the Brian Irvine Ensemble, Pokrovsky Ensemble, and Russian IDM group EU. He has also participated in several theatre productions including Langer\u2019s Ariadne and Stravinsky\u2019s The Soldier\u2019s Tale. He has worked with<\/p>\n
theatre directors Vasily Barkhatov and Tim Hopkins, choreographers Alla Sigalova and Oleg Glushkov and film director Alexander Zeldovich. His recording of the Mozetich Violin Concerto \u2018Affairs of the Heart\u2019 was used in productions by Hong Kong Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Q-dance company.<\/p>\n
Roman is teaching violin at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK.<\/p>\n
Roman Mints was born in Moscow and began playing the violin at the age of five. In 1994 Roman won a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, and also studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, winning prizes at each. His main teachers were L. Svetlova, N. Fikhtengoltz and F. Andrievsky. Roman lives in London and plays a Francesco Ruggieri violin, circa 1685.<\/p>\n
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