David Grigorian studied with Mistislav Rostropovich at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. In 1970 he was prize-winner at the Tschaikovsky Competition in Moscow for cello. He has enjoyed success on the concert platforms of France, Spain, Holland, Austria, Germany and former Yugoslavia, and appeared in cultural centres of the then Soviet Union such as Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Riga and Novosibirsk. He played with the following conductors: M. Rostropowitsch, R. Reuter, W. Nelson, W. Sinaisky, O. Kosushi and others. His chamber-music partners have included A. Nasedkin, Dang Thay Schon, I. Zhukov, G. Zislin, D. Sitkovetsky, S. Rudiakov and L. Lissovaja. He has held professorships in Novosibirsk, Gorky, Moscow, Zagreb and Saarbrücken and directs international master-classes in several Eastern European countries as well as in Spain, Italy, France, Austria and in Germany.
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