High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alexander Ivashkin (born in Blagoveshchensk, Russia) is a cellist, writer and conductor residing in the UK. He was born in the far East of Russia into a family of biologists. The first three years of his life were spent in Mongolia, where his parents worked. He began his piano and cello studies at the age of five, at the Gnessin Music School for gifted children in Moscow. Ivashkin graduated, with distinction, from the Russian Academy of Music (formerly the Gnessins Institute), obtaining degrees in cello performance and in historical musicology. He completed his doctorate studies at the State Institute of Arts Studies in Moscow. In 1993 he was awarded the DMus higher doctorate for his book on Charles Ives. At the age of twenty, Ivashkin joined the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, soon becoming a solo cellist there. In 1978 he and the conductor Alexander Lazarev co-founded The Bolshoi Soloists - a pioneering group specializing in a modern repertoire. In 1987 Ivashkin became a member of the Directors Board at the Bolshoi Theatre.

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