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Australian Flute Festival 2011 by lyndie on Apr 16 2010
The Australian Flute Festival Committee is excited to announce that Denis Bouriakov has agreed to be a guest artist at the 2011 Australian Flute Festival, to be held in Canberra.

Those of you who attended his recital in New York at the NFA convention, will remember the packed concert room. I don’t think even the organisers realized how popular he is and people where sitting on the floor and down the isles. And still, you could hear a pin drop.

Although still in his twenties, Denis Bouriakov has already developed one of the fastest growing careers among flute players. He has won numerous prizes at some of the world’s most prestigious competitions - Rampal, Kobe, ARD and Nielsen - and he has recently been appointed Prinicipal Flute at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

After graduating from the Moscow Central Special Music School in 2000 he went on to study at Royal Academy of Music with Professor William Bennett (OBE) in London. After his graduation in 2004, gaining a record 99% mark and the DipRAM diploma for an outstanding Final Recital, the Royal Academy of Music awarded Denis the ‘Principal’s Award’ as well as the ‘Fellowship Award’ for the 2004-2005 academic year, which involved him giving lessons and classes for flute students at the Royal Academy. In 2006, the Academy awarded Denis with the prestigious title of ARAM (Associate of the Royal Academy of Music).

For the past few years, Denis has been William Bennett’s teaching assistant at his International Summer Schools in Farnham (UK) and Chicago (USA). They have also recorded J.S. Bach Double Concerto with the English Chamber Orchestra for the BEEP label and performed joint concerts together in Japan’s premier concert halls.

Click on the link below to listen to Denis on YouTube playing Introduction and Rondo by Saint-Saens

Denis Bouriakov plays Saint-Saens

I know I’m going to be in the front row!!

PS Denis plays an Altus 1707

Best Regards,

The Australian Flute Festival Committee

Lyndie Leviston - Director
lyndie@leviston.net
p (02) 8006 5345
140 Sailors Bay Road
Northbridge
2063

David Leviston - Director
david@leviston.net