Konstantin Boyarsky is a distinguished violist and composer whose career bridges performance and composition with rare fluency. Born in the Caucasus region of Russia into a family of musicians, he began playing the violin at the age of six. He studied at the Music School affiliated with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Professor Inna Gauhman.

In 1990, his family emigrated from Russia, and by 1991 had settled in the UK, where Konstantin continued his studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School with his mother, Professor Natasha Boyarsky. He later completed both his Bachelor of Music and Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Performance with distinction at the Royal College of Music, studying with Dr. Felix Andrievsky and Simon Rowland-Jones, and receiving additional tutelage from Yuri Bashmet, Natalia Gutman, and Igor Suliga of the Kopelmann Quartet.

He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Malcolm Sargent Award, the Martin Musical Fund Award, and first prize at the Bernard Shore Viola Competition in 1999. He holds a Diploma of Honour from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and was a prizewinner at the 2003 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition.

Since 2000, Konstantin has served as one of the Principal Violists of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Alongside his orchestral work, he appears regularly as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America.

In 2023, he co-founded the Covent Garden Sinfonietta, a chamber orchestra comprised of fellow Royal Opera House players.

Konstantin is also an accomplished composer. Since 2008, his creative output has included a wide range of chamber music, three ballets, a full-length opera, and other large-scale works. His Viola Concerto—premiered in 2021 with the Odessa Philharmonic under Hobart Earle—was live streamed internationally and praised for its emotional range and structural clarity.

Whether performing from the viola desk or composing at the piano, Konstantin Boyarsky brings a distinctive and expressive voice shaped by tradition, innovation, and a lifelong commitment to musical storytelling.

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