STATEN ISLAND, NY — Since his U.S. debut at the Kennedy Center in 1993, Russian-American cellist Borislav Strulev has performed on some of the world’s most prestigious stages: Carnegie Hall, Auditorio de Madrid and Auditorio de Leon (Spain), Muzikverein (Vienna) and Suntory Hall (Tokyo), The Moscow Conservatory, Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall (St-Petersburg ) and Auditorio de Torino (Italy).
Up next: Strulev will add another impressive venue to his classy resume: Lorenzo’s Cabaret in the Hilton Garden Inn, 1100 South Ave. at Lois Lane in Bloomfield.
The international virtuoso will topline “Borislav Strulev & Friends: Galaxy of Magnificent Jazz & Classical Musicians” on Sept. 7 at Lorenzo’s.
Make reservations now at 718-477-2400, ext. 5. Dinner: 7:30 p.m. Showtime: 9:30 p.m. Admission: $35 show charge plus the cost of dinner per patron. For more information, visit LorenzosDining.com.
Acclaimed in every corner of the globe, Borislav collaborates with orchestras such as: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, California Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana, Vienna Tonkünstler of the Music Society of Vienne, Helsingborgs Symfoniorkeste, NorrlandsOperan, del Principado de Asturia, Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic, Moscow Virtuosi, Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia named after. E.F. Svetlanov, symphony orchestras of most South American capitals as well as of South Africa and more.
As chamber performer, Borislav s known by collaboration with top musicians from all over the world: Maxim Mogilevsky, Alexander Markovich, Rohan de Silva, Ilya Itin, Sergei Dreznin , Roger Kellaway, Vadim Neselovskyi , Per Tengstrand, Leonid Ptashka, Matt Herskowitz , Sergei Yerokhin, Denis Matsuev, Misha Maisky, Torleif Thedéen, Alexei Ogrinchuk, Radovan Vlatkovic, Dmitry Berlinsky, Philippe Quint, Jean-Marc Phillips, Julian Rachlin, Randy Brecker, Lars Anders Tomter, Janine Jansen, Regina Carter, Dorado, Amati and Samson Schmitt, Russell Malone, Franz Hackl, Paquito D’Rivera, Christian McBride, Marc Johnson, Lewis Nash, Kathleen Battle, Eliane Elias, Denyce Greaves, Sean Lennon, Gene Pritsker, Dave Grusin, Bobby McFerrin, Sweet Plantain Quartet è St. Lawrence String Quartet and more.
BORISLAV’S BACKGROUND
Borislav was born in Moscow into a family of professional musicians and began playing the cello at age 8. He graduated from the Central Music School at the State Moscow Conservatory in 1992.
With the support of James Wolfenson, formerly World Bank president and at that moment director of Kennedy Center, legendary violinist Isaac Stern and great American pianist Byron Janis, Borislav recieved his American debut at the Kennedy Center in 1993.
Janis said of Strulev: “He plays as if he were to the cello born. His sound, phrasing, coloring and technique already place him in position to follow the Russian tradition of cello playing. Watch this young man, and more importantly, listen to him.”
Also in 1993, he accepted a conservatory scholarship offer from the president of Manhattan School of Music, the world-famous Marta Casals Istomin.
Since 1994, Borislav has been living in the United States, where he participates in master classes with such great artists as Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo-Ma, Lynn Harrell, David Geringas, Philippe Muller, William Pleeth, Marta Casals Istomin, Marion Feldman and Valentin Berlinsky of the Borodin Quartet.
The last five years, Borislav lives and works between Moscown and New York, where he founded the concert series “Borislav Strulev and Friends.”
His worldwide fame has resulted in something a “brand,” resulting in leadership roles at various festival and media events, as well as performances for luminaries such as political leaders Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Michael Bloomberg, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, and musical supertars like Billy Joel, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, JAY-Z, U2’s Bono, Leonardo DiCaprio.
INTERNATIONAL RAVES ABOUT BORISLAV STRULEV
“The young Russian cellist Borislav Strulev mastered with superior style all the virtuosic finesse of Tchaikovsky’s work. The power of his playing expressed the eternity of feelings. Strulev played with precision and sensitivity, energy, pertness and necessary drama.”
— Bonner Generalanzeiger, Germany
“The 23-year-old Russian boasts an enormous, gripping sound, full of bright colors and effortless power; when he plays, he commandeers the sonic spotlight with ease.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“Borislav Strulev avery mature artist, who has a clear interpretive vision, the right touch for large scaled music and the skills and charisma to perform in front of a symphony orchestra.” — Kaleva, Finland
“Borislav Strulev, the cello soloist, played with a rich, singing tone and conveyed a sense of the line’s devotional shape.” — The New York Times
“The high point of the concert was Borislav Strulev in the G-minor Cello Sonata. The 23-years -old cellist from Russia played with a brawny tone and sure technique.”
— Chicago Tribune
“The cellist’s interpretation was total. In lyric parts he leaned himself backwards with his eyes shut; in the fast parts he seemed to get flying up from his chair. The dynamic range of his was wide from whispering to straight cry. In fortissimos Mr. Strulev was torturing his cello with apocalyptic intensity and it was a miracle how the instrument survived from it.” — Kaleva, Finland
“Borislav Srulev showed the sensitivity of the interpretation, but he can stir up a storm by getting at the nerve center of violence.” — El Diario Vasco, Spain
“He produced a gorgeous sound.” — Daily News of Japan
“In the Rococo Variations the cello soloist Borislav Strulev, who seemed terribly young. His tone was beautiful and huge: it seemed to fill the hall all by itself!!! The flutist’s dialog with the cellist was exquisite.”— American Record Guide
“With grace, power and even a sense of suffering, he gave his cello a soul”
— Le Maurienne, France
“What a way to feel! What expression! Words are not enough to express what it meant to us to listen this unreal talent – musical genius!!!” — El Norte, Mexico
“and cellist Borislav Strulev, channeling no one, or perhaps God” — Associated Press
“Stylistically, Borislav has his own identity on the instrument, and he made a boldly vigorous musical statement” — Variety