Evgeny Zvonnikov

Evgeny Zvonnikov
Russian violinist Evgeny Zvonnikov joined the music faculty of West Texas A & M University and Harrington String Quartet in Canyon, Texas in 2017.

Before he taught violin at Wichita State University. He served for several years as Associate Concertmaster of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra and Concertmaster of the Wichita Grand Opera Orchestra. Mr. Zvonnikov has taught master classes in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Singapore, Dallas, Eureka Springs, the San Francisco Conservatory, and Manaus Conservatory, and has served as a jury member of chamber music competitions. He has collaborated with many famous musicians, including pianists Anton Nel, Misha Dichter, Leon Fleisher, Gilbert Kalish, and Peter Donohoe. He was second violinist in the St. Petersburg String Quartet for four years, 2010 to 2014.
Mr. Zvonnikov studied at Rimsky-Korsakov Specialized Music School and in 2005 he entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the class of professor I. V. Ioff. In the same year he performed a concerto in the Great Hall of the Philharmonic with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra. He took part in master classes by the Takacs Quartet, and received high praise from its founder, Gabor Takacs. In the United States, he earned a Master of Music degree with Chamber Music emphasis at Wichita State University.
Mr. Zvonnikov has extensive experience performing as soloist as well as in ensembles, in both classical and contemporary repertoire. Frequently invited as a solo and ensemble performer and by various orchestras, he has taken part in many concerts in the main concert halls of St. Petersburg, such as the Music Hall, the Great Hall and Small Hall of the Philharmonic, the Chapel, and Smolny Cathedral. He has toured with ensembles in Japan, Finland, France, Switzerland, Mexico, Spain, Thailand, Italy, etc.
Evgeny has taken part in many competitions as a solo performer and ensemble member. As a member of the Grammy nominated St. Petersburg String Quartet, Mr. Zvonnikov performed in the greatest halls and participated in many summer music festivals and concert series in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia. In 2011, the St. Petersburg String Quartet played a concert in New York’s Carnegie Hall with the Wichita State University Symphony Orchestra. In November of 2012, Evgeny performed at the St. Petersburg Conservatory International Music Festival commemorating the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Conservatory.
He won second prize in the Maria Udina Chamber Music Competition. In 2012 Evgeny won the Hays (Kansas) Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition and performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Ft. Hays State
University Symphony. Evgeny won Second Place of American Protégé International Concerto Competition, where he performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 2016. In 2020 Evgeny together with the pianist Diego Caetano won first prize at Bonn “Grand Prize Virtuoso” International Music Competition.