Nikita Ruzhavinskiy

Graduate of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the classes of Prof. Natalia Shakhovskaya and Evgeny Rumyantsev. Since 2020, he has been studying in the classes of Prof. Josef Podhoransky and MgA. Stepan Svestka at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno, Czech Republic.

He is a laureate and winner of local and international competitions: II Moscow Young Artist Competition "Magic Bow". (Moscow, 2009); III International Contest of Children and Youth Creativity "Art Solo" in the nomination "Instrumental genre - cello" - solo. (Moscow, 2010); The fourth open international competition. D.B. Kabalevsky in the nomination "Family music making" (in the family string quartet) (Moscow, 2011); "Internationell Musikfestival 2011" (Kristianstad - Sweden) in nominations: Solist Chello & Family Quartet. (Kristianstad, Sweden); I International Competition of Cellists S. Knushevitsky (Saratov, 2012); Festival of romantic music of young musicians of Moscow 2013 "Virtuoso"; "Musical Spring in the House of Jacobi" (Moscow, 2013); VI stringed instruments competition (Nis, Serbia, 2013) I International competition «Duetti di primavera» (Moscow, 2015) Festival of Chamber Music «WinterReise» (Moscow, 2018) Xl International music festival «International baroque academie» (Yaroslavl, 2019) The Summer Music Academy in Kroměříž (LHAK) (Kroměříž, Czech Republic, 2022)

He participated in master-classes Martti Roussi (Finland), Jing Zhao (Germany, China), Stefan Popov (UK), Imke David (Germany), Sergei Istomin (Belgium), Michaela Fukachova (Czech Republic).