Tretyakov, Viktor (Viktorovich)

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Tretyakov, Viktor (Viktorovich)

Tretyakov, Viktor (Viktorovich), noted Russian violinist; b. Krasnoyarsk, Oct. 17, 1946. He studied at the Irkutsk Music School as a child, stoutly braving the Siberian cold; then moved to a more temperate climate in Moscow, where he studied at the Central Music School with Yury Yankelevich (from 1959), continuing with him at the Cons. (graduated, 1970) and as a postgraduate student. In 1966 he won the Tchaikovsky Competition, which automatically lifted him to the upper layers of the violinistic firmament, with applause-rich tours in Russia and later the enviable European and American engagements. A typical product of the Russian school of violin playing, Tretyakov combines the expected virtuosity in technical resources with a diffuse lyricism touched with melancholy in the Romantic repertoire.

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire