Email: Artistic@ChamberMusic.org
Dmitri Atapine is Artistic Co-Director of Friends of Chamber Music Kansas City, where he and pianist Hyeyeon Park guide the artistic vision and mission. Together, they have also been selected as Artistic Directors Designate of the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute, one of the world’s most prestigious chamber music festivals and educational institutions. In addition, Atapine and Park are Co-Founders and Artistic Co-Directors of Apex Concerts in Reno, Nevada, and Co-Directors of the Music@Menlo Smith Family Young Performers Program, helping to mentor and develop the next generation of chamber musicians.
Hailed as a cellist of “brilliant technical chops” (Gramophone) whose playing is “highly impressive throughout” (The Strad), displaying “prodigious technique and inspired phrasing” (American Record Guide), Atapine has appeared as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician on many of the world’s foremost stages, including Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the National Auditorium of Spain, the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, and the National Concert Hall in Taipei. A regular performer with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and an alumnus of its prestigious Bowers Program, he has also appeared at leading festivals including Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Northwest, Aldeburgh, Pacific Music Festival, La Musica Sarasota, and many others.
Mr. Atapine’s many awards include top prizes at the Carlos Prieto International, the Florian Ocampo, and the Llanes cello competitions, as well as the Plowman, New England, and the Premio Vittorio Gui chamber competitions. He has collaborated with many of today’s most distinguished artists, including David Finckel, Wu Han, Cho-Liang Lin, David Shifrin, Ani and Ida Kavafian, Paul Neubauer, Bruno Giuranna, as well as the Emerson Quartet, the St. Lawrence Quartet, and the Calidore Quartet.
An avid recording artist and advocate for both established and contemporary repertoire, Atapine’s recordings appear on the Naxos, Bridge, Albany, MSR Classics, Blue Griffin, and Urtext Digital labels. His recording of Lowell Liebermann’s Complete Works for Cello and Piano, with Hyeyeon Park, marked the world-premiere recording of the complete cycle and received international critical acclaim, as did Wavelength, a recording devoted to works for clarinet trio by prominent American composers. Born into a family of musicians, Atapine received his early musical training in Russia and Spain before earning degrees from Michigan State University with Suren Bagratuni and a Doctorate from Yale School of Music, where he studied with the legendary Aldo Parisot. He is Professor of Cello at the University of Nevada, Reno.
