Maxim Brilinsky

Maxim Brilinsky was born 1985 in Lviv (Ukraine). At the age of five, he received his first violin lessons at the music school there and beginning in 2000 continued his education with Michael Frischenschlager at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. As of 2005, he studied violin at the Conservatoire National Supérior de Musique et de Danse in Paris with Jean-Jacques Kantorow. After one season as concertmaster for the Orchestre national d'Auvergne, he became a member of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra in 2008/09, initially in the 2^nd violin section, and since September 2011 in the 1^st violin section. In the same year he joined the Association of the Vienna Philharmonic. After another audition in 2014, he was appointed leader of the 1^st violin section of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 2018 he has also been concertmaster of the Vienna Hofmusikkapelle.
Maxim Brilinsky was a stipendiary of the Herbert von Karajan Center in Vienna and the Thyll-Dürr Foundation in Zurich. He is the prize winner of many well-known international violin competitions: he won the 4^th Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin Competition in Boulogne-sur-Mer (2002); the 2^nd Prize and a special prize at the Paganini Competition in Genoa (2002) as well as the 2^nd Prize and a special prize at the Benjamin Britten Competition in London (2004).
In 2020 his recording of Niccolò Paganini's 24 Caprices and Nel cor più non mi sento has been released by Sony Classical. This was followed in 2021 by the recording of Eugène Ysaÿe's Six Sonatas for solo violin op. 27 which has been released by Hänssler Classic.