Sergei Istomin

Cellist and viola da gamba player Sergei Istomin, educated partly in the U.S., has been active in various countries, including Canada, France, and Belgium. He has recorded for Analekta, Passacaille, and other labels. Istomin was born in the Soviet Union in 1959. He is apparently unrelated to pianist Eugene Istomin. He began studying the cello at age six at Moscow's Gnessin Institute, a music school for gifted children, where he studied with Vera Birina. He remained there through the completion of his bachelor's degree and then went on to the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow...