Timur Martynov (Trumpet)
• Prize-winner at the II International Raimo Sarmas Trumpet Players’
Competition (Lieska, Finland, 2002, 2nd prize) • Prize-winner at the V
nbsp;All-Russian Rimsky-Korsakov Open Competition of Brass and Percussion
Musicians (St Petersburg, 2000, 1st prize) • Prize-winner at the IV
International Concours de trompette Maurice André (Paris, 2000, 4th prize and
Special Prize) • Prize-winner at the Gartow Stiftung Competition (St
Petersburg, 1997, 1st prize) • Prize-winner at the All-Russian Competition
of Young Brass Players (St Petersburg, 1995, 1st prize) • Diploma-recipient
at the International Trumpet Players’ Competition (Moscow, 1995) •
Diploma-recipient at the International Prague Spring Competition (Prague, Czech
Republic, 2003)
Timur Martynov was born in Leningrad in 1979. He began to study the trumpet
under the tutelage of Georgy Kaminsky. In 2002 he graduated from the St
Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Professor Yuri
Bolshiyanov). From 2000–2001 he trained at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg. Has
taken part in master-classes given by Malte Burba, Konradin Groth (Germany) and
Jouko Harjanne (Finland). The performer has been a prize-winner at numerous
All-Russian and international competitions, among them the Maurice André
International Competition (2000), the Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition
(2000) and the Raimo Sarmas International Competition (2002) in addition to
being a diploma-recipient at the Prague Spring competition (2003).
From
1995–2000 he was a soloist with the St Petersburg State Academic Symphony
Orchestra, from 2003–2005 he was a soloist with the National Philharmonic
Orchestra of Russia and from 2005 – 2006 he was a soloist with the Musica
Aeterna Ensemble of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. Since 2007 he has
been a soloist with the Mariinsky Orchestra and Brass Ensemble. Together with
the Mariinsky Orchestra he has taken part in various tours and international
festivals including the Rotterdam Philharmonic – Gergiev Festival
(Netherlands), the Mikkeli Festival (Finland), the Stars of the White Nights
festival in St Petersburg and the Moscow Easter Festival. Timur Martynov’s
repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes solos in operas, ballets and
symphony music.
In 2010 at the Moscow Easter Festival and the Mikkeli
Festival he performed Rodion Shchedrin’s trumpet concerto with the Mariinsky
Orchestra under Valery Gergiev. That same year, together with the World
Orchestra for Peace under maestro Gergiev he appeared in performances of Gustav
Mahler’s Fifth Symphony as first trumpeter at the BBC Proms music festival in
London and at the Salzburg Festival. In February 2012 the Mariinsky label
released a disc featuring a recording of Dmitry Shostakovich’s Concerto for
Piano and Trumpet with Denis Matsuev, Timur Martynov and the Mariinsky Orchestra
under the baton of Valery Gergiev.
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