Alexey Ivanovich Borozdin

Who is Alexey Ivanovich Borozdin?

Alexey Ivanovich Borozdin was born on 29 March 1937 in the city of Kursk.

He graduated from the Kursk Music College in 1957, then studied in the L'vov Music School until 1961, when he dropped out for a teaching career and did not complete his formal music education until 1976, when he graduated from the Novosibirsk Music School.

In 1962 Borozdin moved to Siberia and began teaching cello classes in the local children music school and had discovered talents of many young cellists. His pupils won more than 70 competitions at all levels, including the International Cello Competition in Cremona, Italy. In 1960s-80s he also played in the Academia orchestra in Akademgorodok, a science campus-town near the city of Novosibirsk, USSR. Following his musical career, in the 1970s-80s Borozdin recovered and transcribed into modern notation over 6000 pages of scores by Josef Mysliveček, a brilliant Czech composer of the 18th century. In 1993, he had been awarded an honorary State title of Distinguished Culture Worker of Russia.