Organist Grigory Varshavsky graduated from the Leningrad Conservatoire
in 1982, having specialised in three subjects – piano (class of
Professor Leonid Gakkel), organ (class of Professor Nina Oksetian) and
the history of music (class of Senior Lecturer Viktoria Shirokova). Under
Professor Oleg Kolovsky he continued with a postgraduate study at
the Leningrad Conservatoire, from which he graduated in 1987.
GGrigory Varshavsky has given organ recitals at the Great Hall of
the St Petersburg Philharmonic and the Academic Glinka Capella as
well as concerts in towns throughout Russia, the CIS, the Baltic
States, Germany, Switzerland and Finland.
Grigory Varshavsky teaches at the faculty of organ, harpsichord and
carillon at the St Petersburg State University. Since 1990,
the musician has been the organist of the Lutheran Church of
St Catherine on Vasilievsky Island in St Petersburg, where he
frequently gives open-access concerts of religious music, devoting particular
attention to music from the European Baroque. Grigory Varshavsky also
performs together with various early music ensembles.
He has made extensive recordings.