Dmitri Ferschtman (Amsterdam)

Dmitri Ferschtman was born in Moscow in 1945. He started his musical education at a very early age at the Central Music School in the same city, continuing in 1964 at the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Professor Galina Kozoloepova and Professor Natalia Gutman. In his second year at the conservatory, he became one of the founders of the Glinka String Quartet, which won a 1st prize at an international string quartet competition in Belgium in 1969.

In July 1975 Mr. Ferschtman took part in a recording of a work by Shostakovich conducted, until several weeks before his death, by the composer himself.
Following a recording of the Mahler Piano Quartet in Russia one month before his departure, Dmitri Ferschtman took up residence in the Netherlands, where he began a new career as a soloist and teacher. He is a professor at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and has served on the faculty of The International Holland Music Sessions since 1993.

Mr. Ferschtman will appear at both the Winter and Summer Open Strings Masterclasses 2011.