Art-Strings.com Information

We offer the perfect combination of a friendly, professional service customized to the needs of your event. We will carefully select music pieces for your very special occasion. You will be entertained by distinguished artists who graduated from leading music schools in Europe and the US. The members of The Art-Strings are also proud of their community work and educational programs. They regularly perform series of Educational Concerts for the public schools. Alex Abaev, violinist and the leader of Art-Strings Ensembles is a native of Ukraine and a cum laude graduate of the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music in Kiev. He is a winner of the Radio Record International Competition Concertino Prague, the Vox Populi Special Prize at the First International Music Festival of Regina and Vladimir Horowitz, the Seventh Pierre Lantier International Competition in Paris, France, and the Eleventh International Chamber Music Competition in Caltanissetta, Italy. Mr. Abayev has appeared in the solo and chamber music performances at Weil Recital Hall, Merkin Hall in New York, Boston's Seully Hall, and the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts in Arizona, among other venues. He participates in numerous music festivals, including Hunter Festival, the Arcadia Festival in Maine and the Orlando Festival in The Netherlands. Mr. Abayev plays as a Concertmaster with the Westchester Chamber Symphony (website) and Bachanalia Orchestra (website). He is also a Professor of Violin at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY (website) since 2002.