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Artist
Yuri Medianik
12+ albums
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about
Medianik is a vice-president of “Accordionist’s alliance of Russia” (since March 2007). He is an art-director and author of idea of the “Pluri_Art” International Festival of Arts and director of “Emotion-orchestra”. Since 2003 he has been an honorary member of Kaunas conservatoire, Lithuania. Yuri Medianik was born in 1983 in the Ukraine to a family of musicians. He took up bayan playing when he was only 2 years of age and made acquaintance with his second instrument, the violin, at the age of eight. He further studied in the Secondary Special Music School n. a. Rimskiy-Korsakov in Saint Petersburg. Yuri graduated from the Special Music Gnessin School in Moscow in 2000 (both violin and bayan) and Moscow State Conservatory named after Tchaikovsky . Yuri is currently a post-graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire. He also took classes from Pierre Amoyale, Boris Belkin, Marine Yashvili and Yuri Shishkin. Medianik is a laureate of several music competitions, namely: Demidovsky International Violin Competition (Grand Prix, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 2003), First All-Russia Bayan Competition YUGORIA (1st Prize, Surgut, Russia, 2001), III International Competition of Bayanists and Accordionists (1st Prize, Moscow, Russia, 2000), International Bayan Competition 'Days of Music in Vogtland' (1st Prize, Klingenthal, Germany, 1997). Yuri holds scholarships from the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, International Holland Music Sessions (Netherlands), Aram Khachaturian Foundation (Armenia) and
