Canadian violinist Stanislav Pronin has performed as soloist and chamber musician at many festivals including Verbier Festival and Interlaken Classics in Switzerland, Banff Festival and Stratford Festival in Canada, Kronberg Festival in Germany, Pärnu Festival in Estonia and Skanderborg Festival in Denmark.
He performs regularly in America, Europe and Asia in such venues as Berliner Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Perlman Theatre in Philadelphia, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Guangzhou Grand Theater, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Wuxi Grand Theater (China), KKL Luzern, Salzburg Festspiele, Paris Philharmonie, Seoul Arts Center, Royal Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, Semperoper in Dresden, and so on. He has collaborated with numerous conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Slatkin, Tobias Ringborg, Antonio Mendez, Sigiswald Kuijken, Michael Schonwandt, LiorShambadal, Leif Segerstram, Marc Soustrot and Joshua Weilerstein.
As chamber musician, he has collaborated with Jan Lisiecki, Jaime Laredo, James Campbell, Mark Kaplan, Pavel Vernikov, Jeanne Marie Conquer, Barry Shiffman, Joel Von Lerber, Bion Tsang, Orion String Quartet, Victor Danchenko, Julian Milkis, Alexander Zemtsov, Jan-Erik Gustafsson, Anton Nel, Emille Naoumoff and Lera Auerbach.
In addition to solo and chamber music, Stanislav is an experienced orchestra musician. He has been invited to perform as Concertmaster with Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark, Austin Lyric Opera in the USA, Berliner Symphoniker, Beethoven Bonn Orchestra, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester and Freiburg Philharmonic in Germany, Musikkolegium Winterthur in Switzerland, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in Estonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the UK and Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, he has gone on numerous tours with the West Eastern Divan Orchestra at the personal invitation of Daniel Barenboim, and the Utopia Orchestra at the invitation of Teodor Currentzis.
Stanislav’s recordings as soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster were released on numerous renowned record labels including Naxos, Sono Luminus, Decca, DaCapo, Chandos, Ginger Muse and Sony Music.
An avid music educator, Stanislav regularly teaches violin and chamber music masterclasses worldwide. He has been Guest Professor at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater since 2014. Additionally, he had held an Artist in Residence position at the University of Texas at Austin, and regularly gives masterclasses as visiting Professor at such educational institutions as the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Royal College of Music in London, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, WWU Münster, Soochow University School of Music in China, and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Israel.
He had assisted Professor Zakhar Bron at the Kronberg Academy, and had been guest faculty at such festivals as Summit Music Festival (NYC), Alion Baltic (Tallinn), Järvi Academy (Pärnu), Euro Music Festival & Academy (Szczecin) and Summer Talent Music Festival (Brescia), alongside fellow faculty members including Aaron Rosand, Steven Isserlis, Ida Haendel, Albert Markov and Dmitry Bashkirov. He is also a member of Play With A Pro online teaching community. Stanislav is currently a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen.
Just as his grandfather who, in his time, had worked closely with numerous composers, including Dmitry Shostakovich, Stanislav is an avid performer of new music. He has personally worked with and premiered works of such composers as John Adams, Fabian Panisello, David Robert Coleman, Murray Schafer, Ned Rorem, Toivo Tulev, Hans Abrahamsen and Lera Auerbach.
Having himself received tutelage from such composers as Sven-David Sandstrom and Jörg Widmann, Stanislav is actively engaged in composition. His dedicatees include artists such as violinist Jeanne Marie Conquer of Ensemble Intercontemporain, world-renowned soprano Lyubov Petrova and pianist Drew Petersen.
Stanislav began his violin studies in Israel with his grandfather, Veniamin Pronin, a student of Pyotr Stoliarskiy and former Professor at the Odessa Conservatoire. His professional career began following his solo debut in Israel at the age of 10. He continued his studies at Indiana University with Nelli Shkolnikova and Jaime Laredo,and later at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Germany, with Professor Zakhar Bron.
Stanislav plays on a rare 1736 violin by Giuseppe Guarneri Del Gesu (“ex-Heifetz”) on generous loan by an anonymous patron, with the kind assistance of the China Foundation.