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Igor Yuzefovich
Concertmaster
Lancaster Symphony Orchestra

Critically acclaimed violinist Igor Yuzefovich has amassed an amazing musical career in less than three decades. Born in Moscow, Yuzefovich was brought up in a musical family in Russia where his father, a violist and musicologist, headed the performing arts section of classical music magazine, Sovietskaya Muzyka. He began his violin studies at the age of 5 and was soon accepted into the Gnessin Music School.

Since 1991, he has resided in the United States, studying with Jody Gatwood, Leri Slutsky at the preparatory division of the Peabody Institute and with Victor Danchenko at the Peabody Conservatory. He earned both his Bachelor of Music degree and the Graduate Performance Diploma at Peabody.

A winner of numerous international competitions, Igor Yuzefovich has performed in many countries around the world. His concerts have taken him from Carnegie Hall in New York to the Cairo Opera House in Egypt. He has also performed in Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Russia, France, Israel, Jordan and South Africa. In 1990, while on a musical exchange, he performed at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv and on Israel's national television.

An active chamber musician, Igor Yuzefovich was a prize winner at the 1996 Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition as a member of the Russia Quartet. In 2004 he co-founded the Monument Piano Trio, which debuted in Baltimore, Maryland to rave reviews.

Heralded by The Baltimore Sun, Yuzefovich is “valued for the vivid personality and technical polish of his playing.” Tim Smith, The Sun’s music critic, lauded the virtuoso as “one of the most impressive talents to emerge from the Peabody in recent years.”

In 2004, after substituting as concertmaster for Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Igor Yuzefovich accepted the position on a permanent basis. In September of 2005, he joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as its assistant concertmaster.

Now in its 61st season, the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra has evolved from a community orchestra into an organization of professional musicians serving 52,000 music enthusiasts with 28 yearly subscription concerts, a new holiday concert, a New Year’s Eve gala celebration, a spring “Audience Requests” concert weekend and a free, outdoor community patriotic concert. Its annual Composer’s Award has earned distinction as a prized, national recognition of contemporary symphonic composers.

The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra is a 75-member, professional orchestra that was founded in 1947 by Frederick S. Klein and John H. Peifer, Jr. from Franklin & Marshall College.

Maestro Stephen Gunzenhauser has led the Symphony as its music director and conductor since 1979. In his 28 years with the Lancaster Symphony, the Grammy noninee has enriched the community with his “Only in Lancaster” brand of symphonic music and transformed the Orchestra into one of the country’s finest regional, professional orchestras.

The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra is a non-profit organization, governed by a board of 30 community volunteers and managed by a professional staff under the direction of president and chief executive officer M. Scott Robinson.

Ticket sales revenues and donations from hundreds of corporate and private benefactors underwrite the Symphony’s invaluable contribution to the quality of life in south central Pennsylvania.