Born in Russia, Evgeny started playing the violin in 1998 in Ulyanovsk at the Children’s Music School, graduating from Togliatti College of Music as violinist and violist, and entering Kazan State Conservatoire as a violist in 2008. Winning local competitions in violin solo and chamber music, in 2007 he received First and Special Prizes in the Solo Viola Competition, Togliatti, Russia.
From 2003, Evgeny held professional positions in numerous orchestras as violinist and violist, including Principal Viola in the Togliatti State Symphony Orchestra (2006-07) and Assistant Principal Viola at the Kazan State Symphony Orchestra (2007-08). Broad musical interests brought him to the Togliatti College Chamber Orchestra as assistant conductor in 2004, and as a conductor from 2005-2007. Evgeny also taught from 2006 in the Togliatti Music School and later in the Kazan State Conservatory Preparatory School.
As a violist of the “Da Brachio” Quartet and the “New Music” ensemble, Evgeny toured France, Germany and Poland, and participated in the International Festival in Kiev, Ukraine (2007). In 2008 Evgeny moved to Lansing, MI where he is an Assistant principal viola of the Chamber orchestra “Ad Libitum” (Yuri Gandelsman conductor), and violist in the Lansing Symphony and Midland Symphony Orchestras.
