Nikita Borisoglebsky was born in Volgodonsk. He graduated from the Moscow State Conservatoire and completed the postgraduate studies at the MSC (under professor Eduard Grach and associate professor Tatiana Berkul), and then improved his skills under the guidance of Augustin Dumay in Brussels and Ana Chumachenco in Kronberg. Participated in international Keshet Eilon Masterclasses under the patronage of Shlomo Mintz in Israel.
Winner and laureate of many international competitions, including the Abram Yampolsky Competition in Penza (2002, 3rd prize), the Kloster-Schöntal competition (2003, 1st prize), the Joseph Joachim Competition in Hanover (2006), the Oistrakh Competition in Moscow (2007, 1st prize), the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (2007, 2nd prize and five special prizes), Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels (2009, 5th prize). In 2010, the musician won the first prizes at the Kreisler Competition in Vienna and the Sibelius Competition in Helsinki, the third prize at the Montreal Competition, and in 2013 he won the Monte Carlo Violin Masters Grand Prix in Monaco.
He was awarded a number of awards by various foundations and the Government of Russia, in 2009 he was awarded the Violinist of the Year award by the International Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin Foundation (USA) and in 2011 the Virtuoso award of the Italian Academy of String Instruments and the Antonio Stradivarius Society (Cremona) and the Jean Sibelius Medal from the Sibelius Foundation in Finland. In 2010, the Russian newspaper Muzykalnoye Obozreniye (Musical Review) declared Nikita The Person of the Year.
He tours throughout Russia, in the countries of Europe, Asia and the CIS; collaborates with famous orchestras and prominent conductors, including Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Krzysztof Penderecki, Yuri Simonov, Sakari Oramo, David Afkham, Hannu Lintu, Vassily Sinaisky, Klaus Mäkelä, Dima Slobodeniouk and others. Among the violinist’s partners in the ensemble are Rodion Shchedrin, Natalia Gutman, Yuri Bashmet, András Schiff, Boris Berezovsky, Alexandre Kniazev, Alexander Ghindin, Augustin Dumay, David Geringas, Lovro Pogorelich, Vadim Repin, Alexander Rudin, Sergey Antonov, Ekaterina Mechetina, Nikolai Lugansky, Denis Kozhukhin. In 2014, with five musicians from different countries, Nikita Borisoglebsky organized a piano sextet, Rubik Ensemble.
He took part in festivals in Salzburg, Rheingau, Dubrovnik, Sviatoslav Richter’s December Evenings, the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Stars of the White Nights and Arts Square festivals in St Petersburg, the Oleg Kagan Festival in Kreuth, Violino il Magico in Italy, Denis Matsuev's Crescendo, Boris Andrianov's Vivacello and many other festivals. He pays particular attention to the music of contemporary authors and composers of the twentieth century, being the first performer of a number of compositions by Rodion Shchedrin, Alexander Tchaikovsky and Kuzma Bodrov.
In 2018, an anthology of Nikolai Medtner's compositions for violin and piano performed by Nikita Borisoglebsky and Ekaterina Derzhavina was released on the Profil label (Germany) and was highly praised by international critics. An album of chamber music by Prokofiev and Weinberg will soon be released by the Melodiya company with the participation of Nikita, and a recording of the recently found Ysaÿe violin concerto with the Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
During the 2018/19 season, he performs in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, the Great Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Verdi Hall of the Milan Conservatory, the Shanghai Oriental Art Centre, at the Turku and Kuhmo festivals (Finland), the Bratislava Music Festival, and the Crazy Day Festival in Nantes and Tokyo. In the spring of 2019, Borisoglebsky also went on his debut tour of China, together with pianist Georgy Tchaidze giving 13 concerts in 12 cities. Among the events of the 2019/20 season are the closing concert of the Beethoven Festival in Bonn conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev, performances in the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society under the baton of Krzysztof Penderecki, at the Mariinsky Theatre Primorsky Stage, in the Lotte Hall in Seoul, concerts with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and with the Vienna Radio Orchestra in Vienna, as well as a concert with Boris Berezovsky in the Tchaikovsky Hall.
Plays a violin by Matteo Goffriller made in the 1720s.
