Benjamin Marquise Gilmore, Violin

Biography

Benjamin Marquise Gilmore was born in 1987 and has studied violin with Natalia Boyarskaya at the Yehudi Menuhin School and with Pavel Vernikov and Julian Rachlin at the Vienna Conservatory, as well as chamber music with Avedis Kouyoumdjan, Peter Schuhmayer, and Johannes Meissl. He has performed in such venues as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Brahms Saal in Vienna, and he has collaborated with many renowned artists, including Rachlin, Natalia Gutman, Mischa Maisky, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Nobuko Imai, Janine Jansen, Elisabeth Leonskaya, Elisso Virsaladze, Kolja Blacher, and Gerhard Schulz, and with such ensembles as the Hugo Wolf Quartet and the Altenberg Trio. As a soloist he has performed with the Mikkeli Chamber Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Georgian National Symphony Orchestra, and Lodz Philharmonic, as well as with his grandfather, the conductor Lev Markiz. He has worked with such contemporary composers as Gavin Bryars, Bernhard Lang, Frank Denyer, and (on several occasions) with Giya Kancheli. Benjamin has been the recipient of several honors, including first prize at the Oskar Back Violin Competition in Amsterdam. In 2011 he became a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and has participated in chamber music concerts with members of the orchestra.