Aylen Pritchin

Aylen Pritchin was born in Leningrad in 1987 and began to study the violin at the age of six. He graduated from the Secondary Special Music School of the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Elena Zaitseva), the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and undertook a postgraduate study there (class of Eduard Grach). Prize-winner at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians (Kurashiki, Japan, 2004; 1st prize), the Yampolsky International Violin Competition (Moscow, 2006; 1st prize), the Pancho Vladigerov Piano and Violin International Competition (Shumen, Bulgaria, 2007; 1st prize and special prize “For the best performance of Pancho Vladigerov’s works”), the Canetti International Violin Competition (Italy, 2009; 1st prize and special prize “For the