Unfortunately, the Quartet's concert scheduled for the 24th of November 2022 at the Wigmore Hall was cancelled due to visa delays.
The Quartet's concert scheduled for the 3rd of October 2021 at the Wigmore Hall was cancelled due to the pandemic.
Their concert scheduled for the 26th of November 2020 at the Wigmore Hall was also cancelled.
The quartet currently consists of Nikolai Sachenko as first violinist (Ruben Aharonian left), Sergei Lomovsky on violin, Igor Naidin on Viola and Vladimir Balshin on cello.
The quartet performed Tchaikovsky's II. Andante cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11 and Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 by Shostakovich with Barry Douglas on the 14th of October 2019 at the Wigmore Hall.
Their performance with Alexei Volodin scheduled for the 20th of May 2020 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall was also cancelled.
Beethoven's String Quartet No. 1 in F Op. 18 No. 1 performed in 2020 (January) and 2015 (June).
Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 6 in G Op. 101 performed in 2020 (January) and 2015 (June).
Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in in C minor Op. 110 performed in 2015 (April, 19).
Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15 in E flat minor Op. 144 performed in 2019 (October, 11) and 2017.
The quartet performed Martinů's Concerto for string quartet & orchestra and Schulhoff's Conceto for string quartet & wind orchestra with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski at the Royal Festival Hall on the 7th of November 2018.
The quartet played all of Beethoven's sixteen string quartets and all fifteen string quartets by Shostakovich between the 18th of April 2015 and the 3rd of June 2017 at the Wigmore Hall.
The Quartet performed in a lunchtime concert with clarinetist Michael Collins on the 25th of April at the Wigmore Hall.
Sergei Lomovsky joined the quartet in 2011.
Michael Church for the Independent: "... the Borodin Quartet has maintained stratospherically high standards for seventy unbroken years. The personnel has changed several times, but the solidity of the group’s foundations were made crystal clear this week."
The Borodin Quartet is a string quartet that was founded in 1945 in Moscow. The quartet got its present name in 1955 after starting out in 1945 as the Moscow Conservatoire Quartet with cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
First violinist Nikolai Sachenko was born in 1977 and studied at the Moscow Central Music School and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He also won the International Leopold Mozart Competition.
Igor Naidin was born in Moscow in 1969.
Vladimir Balshin was born in Moscow in 1973.
Sergei Lomovsky was born in Moscow in 1973.
Ruben Aharonian was born in Riga in 1947, joined the Quartet in 1996 as first violinist and left the Quartet in 2022. He was professor at Yerevan Conservatory.
Rostislav Dubinsky played the first violin from 1945 until 1976, while cellist Valentin Berlinsky left the quartet in 2007 after 62 years (yes, you read that correctly as 62) of loyal service.
Martin Kettle's review stated that the playing was rich-toned and dramatic, in ways that seemed authentically Russian, and the technique was formidable.