Conductor, trumpet soloist and educator Vladislav Lavrik gained recognition as a virtuoso trumpeter before achieving a reputation internationally as a music director and guest conductor.
Born in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine to a family of musicians, Vladislav Lavrik studied piano and trumpet, receiving a master’s in trumpet performance from the Moscow State Conservatory. Excelling in both classical and jazz idioms, he has appeared as a soloist in all the leading Russian concert halls and was just 22 years old when he made his US debut as a soloist, performing an arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the RNO at Seattle’s Paramount Theater. Around the world as a soloist he has played at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonie, Köln Philharmonie, Elb Philharmonie, Casino Bern, Salle Pleyel (Paris), Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), Lincoln Theater (Napa Valley), Theatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro), and numerous other venues in France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK, USA, Canada, Brazil, Uruguay, UAE, South Korea and North Korea.
From 2008 to 2022, Lavrik was Professor of Trumpet at the Moscow State Conservatory. In 2016 he received the Russian Presidential Prize for Young Artists, and in 2021 was named a Merited Artist of the Russian Federation.
Lavrik served as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of two Russian orchestras—the Tula Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and the Orenburg Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra—and has appeared as guest conductor and soloist with the Russian National Orchestra (on tours in the U.S. and Asia), the Ensemble Orchestral de Bordeaux, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rachmaninoff International Orchestra (Switzerland), the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, among many others.
He is also active in opera, conducting works by Verdi, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Rimsky-Korsakov. Since relocating to Berlin in 2022, his engagements have included collaborations with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rachmaninoff International Orchestra, and a series of Peace Concerts in Berlin.
Lavrik is committed to music projects for children, including music therapy programs for children with disabilities in the U.S. and Russia. He collaborated with Chris Brubeck on the children's musical "Hermitage Cats Save the Day", performed in the U.S. (New York, Washington D.C., Tuscaloosa, Alabama) and in Russia (St. Petersburg).
