Pjotr Meshvinski

Pjotr Meshvinski, the dynamic director of the „ST. PETERSBURG VIRTUOSEN“, was born in Saint Petersburg in 1966 into an old and renowned family of cellists. At the age of six, he intensively started to learn the cello with Emanuel Fishmann, having being admitted to the special music school at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Saint Petersburg. Meshvinski's musical talent was revealed when at the age of 11, he first performed in public with Chaikovsky's Rococo Variations and Bocccherini's Concert in d-major. 

In 1984, Meshvinski moved to Moscow and joined Professor Valentin Feigin's master class at the Chaikovsky Conservatory. His international career started as solo cello of the Soviet-American Youth Orchestra directed by Zubin Mehta and Leonard Slatkin and with the German-Soviet Philharmonic orchestra of Valery Gergiev.

Pjotr Meshvinski is one of the founding members the „ST. PETERSBURG VIRTUOSEN“. As its artistic director, he has developed the special character of this chamber music ensemble. He has been living in Hamburg since 1991.