Vladislav Adelkhanov
Biography
Born and raised in Tbilisi, Vladislav Adelkhanov started to play violin at the age of seven, subsequently winning Georgian national youth violin competitions in 1979 and 1981. He first studied with David Reizner at a regular neighborhood music school, and as a school pupil performed with Georgian National Symphony Orchestra concertos by Bruch, Mozart and Wieniawski as well as Symphonie espagnole by Lalo. From 1986 until 1989 he studied with Olga Voitova at the Moscow Conservatoire Music College. In August 1987 he represented Soviet Union at the International Music Festival in Nyírbátor, Hungary, and later that year he won Mendelssohn concerto competition. He holds Master's degree from the Moscow Conservatoire, which he graduated in 1994, and where his tutors were Maya Glezarova (violin) and Gennady Cherkasov (chamber music). In 1997 he completed Advanced Instrumental Studies Course with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Between 1989 and 1994 he led several Baroque HIP projects, based on Bylsma and Harnoncourt methods. In 1992 he was awarded 6th prize at the 4th Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition. From 1993 until 1996 he worked in Moscow Symphony Orchestra, and as leader and assistant conductor of the Moscow Amadeus Orchestra, partnering with conductors Vladimir Simkin, Helmuth Rilling and Arpad Joó. In 1998 he served as deputy leader in the Moscow Virtuosi Orchestra. In 1999 he gave solo recitals in London, Solihull and Glasgow, and recorded at CaVa Studios.
In January 2000 under the name Vladislav Steinberg his book Travels was published in Moscow by Galaktika Publishing House. Between 2000 and 2005 he taught violin and viola and conducted the orchestra at St Leonards School. In 2004-2005 season he was an appointed leader of the University of St Andrews Symphony Orchestra. His 2004 solo appearances included Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos played in Brechin Cathedral, Caird Hall, Greyfriars Church and Younger Hall respectively. Earlier still, in December 2001 he performed 24 Capriccios by Niccolo Paganini in St John's, Smith Square. His musical collaborations include conductors Gillian Craig, Stephen Doughty and Ralph Jamieson, cellist Robin Mason, pianists Stephen Gutman and Gilmour Macleod. Between 1999 and 2005 he performed under a stage name Vladislav Steinberg.
He was awarded 1st prize in a prose category for 2014 by Chicago based Russian language literary magazine Lexicon.
He is a great-grandson of Simon Steinberg and a nephew of Emil Adelkhanov.