Bushkov Evgeny, *8 May 1968 Moscow, Russian violinist and conductor. He first learned to play the violin from his mother, violinist Z. Shikhmurzayeva, and from 1975 to 1985 he continued his studies at the Central Music School of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow (in 1982 in the class of L. Kogan, in 1983–1985 under V. Tretyakov, and in 1985 under V. Klimov), then began studying at the conservatory there, graduating in 1990 and completing postgraduate studies in 1993. He has won prizes at many international music competitions, including first prize at the 9th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań (1986), the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (third prize, 1989) and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (second prize, 1990), as well as the Henryk Szeryng Foundation Award in Monte Carlo (1992). In 1999, he abandoned his solo career and began studying conducting under D. Kitayenko in Switzerland and A. Brusilov and W. Yampolsky in the United States. In the same year, he made his debut as a conductor at the Luxeuil Festival in France, conducting Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony. He then conducted, among others, university orchestras in the United States and Kazakhstan, as well as the Luxeuil Festival Orchestras, the Nizhny Novgorod Symphony Orchestra, the Pan-Asian Symphony Orchestra in Hong Kong, and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela. In 2002, he returned to Russia, where his series of educational concerts for children (2003) enjoyed great popularity; in 2004, he made his debut in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra, founded by Y. Bashmet, with which he later performed in Russia and abroad. In 2009, he took up the position of conductor and artistic director of the Belarusian State Chamber Orchestra.
