Vladimir Khalikulov
Founder of RealMusicians.Org
Biography
Vladimir
Khalikulov is currently principal viola of the Monterey Symphony Orchestra.
He has also been principal violist with the Reno Philharmonic and Sacramento
Philharmonic. He is an active performer in the San Francisco and Monterey
Bay Area as soloist and chamber musician. In 1994 Mr. Khalikulov performed
the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 with Abraham Rosenblit in San Francisco.
In 1995 he made the North American premiere of the Concerto for Two Violas
and String Orchestra by Marina Kalantaroff with violist Sergei Rakitchenkov
which was broadcast on San Francisco Bay Area television. Also in 1995
he made the San Francisco premiere of the Sonata per la Grand’Viola e
Orchestre by Nicolo Paganini. With Philip Levy, the first violinist of
the Stanford String Quartet, he performed the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante.
In 2000 he performed as soloist and conducted the Telemann Viola Concerto
with the Monterey Symphony. Mr. Khalikulov has performed chamber music
with musicians from the San Francisco Symphony and the Monterey Symphony,
and touring artists (Mikhail Vaiman, Dina Yoffe, and Bin Huang). He was
teacher and performer in Printemps Musical au Moulin in Ande, France,
in 2004 and the Beverly Hills Music Festival in 2004.
Vladimir Khalikulov began his music
education at age eight at the Gliere Special Music School in Tashkent. His
teachers were A. Rosenblit, currently with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,
and A. Braverman. In 1976, after five years of studies with Nicolai Maschenko
and Alexander Polonsky, he earned his MA in Music at the Mukhtar Ashrafi
State Cnservatory in Tashkent. He was a finalist in the All-Russia competition
to Munich with Yuri Bashmet, Yuri Gandelsman, and Sergei Rakitchenkov. Mr.
Khalikulov completed his doctoral studies in 1979 at the Moscow State Conservatory
with Fyodor Druzhinin and Yuri Bashmet. From 1980 to 1985 he was the violist
of the Uzbek State String Quartet and studied with Victor Gvozdetsky and
members of the Borodin String Quartet. He taught viola and string quartet
at the Conservatory in Tashkent from 1979 to 1990. Many of his students
hold major positions in professional orchestras in Russia, Uzbekistan, and
other countries. He currently teaches viola and violin and coaches orchestral
musicians in the SF and Monterey Bay Areas.
Mr. Khalikulov started his solo career at age 14 in the Bach C minor concerto
for viola and orchestra. A few days after graduation from the Gliere School at
age 18, Vladimir Ioudenitch, renowned virtuoso violinist, recommended him to
conductor Zakhid Khaknazarov to join a concert tour of the State Symphony Orchestra
of Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan. From 1972 to 1976 and 1980 to 1985 he was violist
of the Uzbek State String Quartet and studied with renown violinist and teacher,
Naum Pover a student of legendary violinist and teacher Yampolski. From 1985
to 1990 he was principal violist of the opera and ballet orchestras the Bolshoi
Theater of Uzbekistan, and soloist with the Uzbek Philharmonic. In 1983 his quartet
won the Third Prize of the Borodin String Quartet Competition in Talinn, Estonia.
His recitals and solo performances include the Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
by Ilya Dimov with the Moscow Philharmonic in 1987 (also broadcast on radio),
the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante at the Glinka festival with violinist Andrei
Korsakov, performances of three viola concerti at the USSR Viola Festival, including
the concerto for violin and viola by Alexander Pechenyuk with violinist Mark
Pover (currently concertmaster of the Royal Opera in Stockholm), and soloist
in a cultural exchange between Uzbekistan and Bulgaria, including a performance
and broadcast of the Shostakovich Viola Sonata. He has performed with Kiril Kondrashin,
Roman Matsov, Vladimir Ziva, Zakhid Khaknazarov, Enrique Dimecke, Mikhail Vaiman,
Alexander Vinitsky, Mikhail Kugel, Igor Oistrakh, and with Susanna Konstantinovsky,
major viola repertoire.
He was a champion of new music of living composers and performed world premieres
of four viola concert dedicated to him as well as solo and chamber music. The
Rahkimov concerto was recorded on Melodiya and broadcast on national television.
Currently he is working on the world premiere of an American viola concerto,
participation in international music festivals, and special projects.