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Yury Revich is a Vienna-based Stradivari violinist, composer and interdisciplinary artist, internationally acclaimed for his distinctive artistic voice, innovation and musical depth. He is a winner of the ECHO Klassik Award and the International Classical Music Award.
As a soloist and composer, he has appeared at major venues including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Berlin Philharmonie, BOZAR in Brussels, Alte Oper Frankfurt and Tonhalle Zürich, as well as the Vienna Konzerthaus, Cadogan Hall in London, the Prinzregententheater in Munich and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
His recordings have entered the US Billboard Top 100 Classical Charts, including his 2021 recording of concertos by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Three tracks from his Saint-Georges recording have been featured in the soundtrack of Netflix’s Bridgerton. His recordings have been released by Sony, Naxos and ARS Produktion, among other labels.
He serves as an Honorary Representative of UNICEF Austria.
Born into a family spanning four generations of violinists, with roots dating back to the 19th century, Yury began studying the violin at the age of five and made his Carnegie Hall debut at 18 alongside Daniil Trifonov. He subsequently performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto at Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
He has appeared as a soloist with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien), the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berliner Symphoniker, the Münchner Symphoniker, Collegium Musicum Basel, La Verdi Milano, the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, the Aachener Symphoniker, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and the Zagreb Soloists, among many others.
His concert tours have taken him throughout Europe and the United States, across Asia, including Japan, Korea and China, and to Latin America, including Mexico, Chile and Brazil. He has worked with conductors including Mikhail Pletnev, Liana Isakadze, Duncan Ward, Johannes Schlaefli, Sebastian Weigle, Stanislav Kochanovsky and Xian Zhang.
His repertoire ranges from Baroque to contemporary music. His programming and recordings also champion music by underrepresented composers, including Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
Yury’s music spans classical, neoclassical, cinematic and electronic genres. He began composing as a child, writing cadenzas for the violin concertos he performed, and has since developed a body of orchestral, chamber, choral, electronic and interdisciplinary work. Recent commissions have received premieres at the Vienna Musikverein and Künstlerhaus Vienna, with the world premiere of OCEAN at Carnegie Hall scheduled for November 2026.
His works, commissions and major presentations include:
His 2021 Earth Day commission for the United Nations Environment Programme brought together 100 musicians from around the world.
Under the name OLARIO, Yury develops neoclassical and electronic music as a composer, performer and producer, bringing acoustic instruments into dialogue with electronic sound. His 2026 concept album PEACE, released by ARS Produktion, explores inner and universal peace through music by composers from different cultures, alongside his own compositions and poetry.
His music is heard in international films, at art festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 and 2024, and on streaming platforms. In 2021, he co-wrote “Bye Bye Bye” with Michael Schulte and YouNotUs, which reached the Top 20 of Germany’s Singles Trend Chart. His recordings and original music have also featured in projects by the United Nations Environment Programme and UNICEF, as well as film soundtracks. His composition “Nocturne” was used in a Vogue short film about Ukrainian ballet dancers.
He has composed music for film projects involving Oscar-nominated filmmaker Oren Moverman, producer Colin Vaines and filmmaker Quentin Delcourt. His score for VHS Tape Replaced, directed by Maha Al-Saati, received the Best Score award at the 2024 Best of NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Awards.
Yury’s artistic curiosity leads him to collaborations across genres and artistic disciplines. His interdisciplinary creations have been commissioned by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Bergson Kunstkraftwerk in Munich, Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, Art Basel and Künstlerhaus Vienna. His practice explores new forms of performance, narrative and immersive cultural experience.
His collaborators include:
Classical & Neoclassical: Martha Argerich, Daniil Trifonov, Andrea Bocelli, Paul Badura-Skoda, Sumi Jo, Steven Isserlis, Ramón Vargas and Lionel Cottet.
Contemporary: William Orbit, Toby Gad, Pixie Lott, Azekel, YouNotUs, Michael Schulte and Gabriel Prokofiev.
Theatre, Film, Dance & Visual Art: Rupert Everett, Ute Lemper, Amos Gitai, Cornelius Obonya, Sunnyi Melles and Gérard Depardieu, as well as Christiane Hörbiger, Thiago Soares, Arthur Cadre, Liudmila Konovalova, Constantin Luser, Dr. Formalyst and Arotin & Serghei.
In 2015, Yury founded the cultural platform that became Festival Nights. Originally launched in Vienna as Friday Nights and renamed Festival Nights in 2023, it connects music with visual art, dance, theatre, technology and immersive experiences. It has developed into an international platform for artistic experimentation and social engagement, bringing established artists and emerging talents together.
Recent highlights include:
These recent activities encompass premieres of commissioned original creations, solo concerts and interdisciplinary performances at the UNESCO Main Hall in Paris and Künstlerhaus Vienna, alongside the premieres and performances of his compositions at the Vienna Musikverein.
Through NeuroSound, Yury also explores the relationship between music, perception, emotion and wellbeing in dialogue with neuroscience. The initiative develops listening experiences and sound environments as part of his wider interest in inclusive cultural formats.
Festival Nights supports humanitarian causes, particularly environmental protection, children in need and autism awareness. Its activities include the Dreamland series in cooperation with UNICEF Austria and the All for Autism initiative, established in Vienna in 2015.
Yury contributed as a composer to RESISTRUMENTS, the ArtHelps project that transforms materials from weapons and war debris into musical instruments. The project, which received a Webby Award, uses music and creativity to support young people and raise awareness for peace.
He has contributed to initiatives promoting peace, intercultural dialogue and European values through the Oslo Freedom Forum and EuropaNova, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
In November 2025, he chaired a session and workshop on culture, creativity and cultural diplomacy as part of the inaugural Europa Power Initiative in Strasbourg, and presented its cultural proposals at the European Parliament. Organised by EuropaNova, the initiative took place under the high patronage of the Presidents of France and Italy and brought together representatives of the Council of Europe and other European institutions.
Yury Revich’s work has been featured by Vogue, Forbes, The Times, ORF, ZDF, Puls4, DIE ZEIT Magazin, among other publications and broadcasters.
He studied with his father, Alexander Revich, Galina Turchaninova and Viktor Pikayzen, and with Pavel Vernikov at the Vienna Conservatory, now the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (MUK).
Yury Revich is a Vienna-based Stradivari violinist, composer and interdisciplinary artist, internationally acclaimed for his distinctive artistic voice, innovation and musical depth. He is a winner of the ECHO Klassik Award and the International Classical Music Award.
As a soloist and composer, he has appeared at major venues including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Berlin Philharmonie, BOZAR in Brussels, Alte Oper Frankfurt and Tonhalle Zürich, as well as the Vienna Konzerthaus, Cadogan Hall in London, the Prinzregententheater in Munich and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
His recordings have entered the US Billboard Top 100 Classical Charts, including his 2021 recording of concertos by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Three tracks from his Saint-Georges recording have been featured in the soundtrack of Netflix’s Bridgerton. His recordings have been released by Sony, Naxos and ARS Produktion, among other labels.
He serves as an Honorary Representative of UNICEF Austria.
Born into a family spanning four generations of violinists, with roots dating back to the 19th century, Yury began studying the violin at the age of five and made his Carnegie Hall debut at 18 alongside Daniil Trifonov. He subsequently performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto at Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
He has appeared as a soloist with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien), the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berliner Symphoniker, the Münchner Symphoniker, Collegium Musicum Basel, La Verdi Milano, the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, the Aachener Symphoniker, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and the Zagreb Soloists, among many others.
His concert tours have taken him throughout Europe and the United States, across Asia, including Japan, Korea and China, and to Latin America, including Mexico, Chile and Brazil. He has worked with conductors including Mikhail Pletnev, Liana Isakadze, Duncan Ward, Johannes Schlaefli, Sebastian Weigle, Stanislav Kochanovsky and Xian Zhang.
His repertoire ranges from Baroque to contemporary music. His programming and recordings also champion music by underrepresented composers, including Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
Yury’s music spans classical, neoclassical, cinematic and electronic genres. He began composing as a child, writing cadenzas for the violin concertos he performed, and has since developed a body of orchestral, chamber, choral, electronic and interdisciplinary work. Recent commissions have received premieres at the Vienna Musikverein and Künstlerhaus Vienna, with the world premiere of OCEAN at Carnegie Hall scheduled for November 2026.
His works, commissions and major presentations include:
His 2021 Earth Day commission for the United Nations Environment Programme brought together 100 musicians from around the world.
Under the name OLARIO, Yury develops neoclassical and electronic music as a composer, performer and producer, bringing acoustic instruments into dialogue with electronic sound. His 2026 concept album PEACE, released by ARS Produktion, explores inner and universal peace through music by composers from different cultures, alongside his own compositions and poetry.
His music is heard in international films, at art festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 and 2024, and on streaming platforms. In 2021, he co-wrote “Bye Bye Bye” with Michael Schulte and YouNotUs, which reached the Top 20 of Germany’s Singles Trend Chart. His recordings and original music have also featured in projects by the United Nations Environment Programme and UNICEF, as well as film soundtracks. His composition “Nocturne” was used in a Vogue short film about Ukrainian ballet dancers.
He has composed music for film projects involving Oscar-nominated filmmaker Oren Moverman, producer Colin Vaines and filmmaker Quentin Delcourt. His score for VHS Tape Replaced, directed by Maha Al-Saati, received the Best Score award at the 2024 Best of NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Awards.
Yury’s artistic curiosity leads him to collaborations across genres and artistic disciplines. His interdisciplinary creations have been commissioned by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Bergson Kunstkraftwerk in Munich, Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, Art Basel and Künstlerhaus Vienna. His practice explores new forms of performance, narrative and immersive cultural experience.
His collaborators include:
Classical & Neoclassical: Martha Argerich, Daniil Trifonov, Andrea Bocelli, Paul Badura-Skoda, Sumi Jo, Steven Isserlis, Ramón Vargas and Lionel Cottet.
Contemporary: William Orbit, Toby Gad, Pixie Lott, Azekel, YouNotUs, Michael Schulte and Gabriel Prokofiev.
Theatre, Film, Dance & Visual Art: Rupert Everett, Ute Lemper, Amos Gitai, Cornelius Obonya, Sunnyi Melles and Gérard Depardieu, as well as Christiane Hörbiger, Thiago Soares, Arthur Cadre, Liudmila Konovalova, Constantin Luser, Dr. Formalyst and Arotin & Serghei.
In 2015, Yury founded the cultural platform that became Festival Nights. Originally launched in Vienna as Friday Nights and renamed Festival Nights in 2023, it connects music with visual art, dance, theatre, technology and immersive experiences. It has developed into an international platform for artistic experimentation and social engagement, bringing established artists and emerging talents together.
Recent highlights include:
These recent activities encompass premieres of commissioned original creations, solo concerts and interdisciplinary performances at the UNESCO Main Hall in Paris and Künstlerhaus Vienna, alongside the premieres and performances of his compositions at the Vienna Musikverein.
Through NeuroSound, Yury also explores the relationship between music, perception, emotion and wellbeing in dialogue with neuroscience. The initiative develops listening experiences and sound environments as part of his wider interest in inclusive cultural formats.
Festival Nights supports humanitarian causes, particularly environmental protection, children in need and autism awareness. Its activities include the Dreamland series in cooperation with UNICEF Austria and the All for Autism initiative, established in Vienna in 2015.
Yury contributed as a composer to RESISTRUMENTS, the ArtHelps project that transforms materials from weapons and war debris into musical instruments. The project, which received a Webby Award, uses music and creativity to support young people and raise awareness for peace.
He has contributed to initiatives promoting peace, intercultural dialogue and European values through the Oslo Freedom Forum and EuropaNova, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
In November 2025, he chaired a session and workshop on culture, creativity and cultural diplomacy as part of the inaugural Europa Power Initiative in Strasbourg, and presented its cultural proposals at the European Parliament. Organised by EuropaNova, the initiative took place under the high patronage of the Presidents of France and Italy and brought together representatives of the Council of Europe and other European institutions.
Yury Revich’s work has been featured by Vogue, Forbes, The Times, ORF, ZDF, Puls4, DIE ZEIT Magazin, among other publications and broadcasters.
He studied with his father, Alexander Revich, Galina Turchaninova and Viktor Pikayzen, and with Pavel Vernikov at the Vienna Conservatory, now the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (MUK).