Boris Kuschnir

Born in Kyiv in 1948, he has won numerous prizes at international violin and chamber music competitions (Paris, Belgrade, Sion, Bratislava, Florence, Trieste, Hamburg, Vercelli). In 1970 he founded the Moscow String Quartet, of which he remained a permanent member until 1979. Resident in Austria since 1981 and full university professor in Graz since 1999. He founded the Vienna Brahms Trio in 1993 and co-founded the Kopelman Quartet in 2003. Since 1991 he has played the Stradivari “La Rouse-Boughton” (1703).