Boris Andrianov is a soloist and chamber musician who performs with orchestras and ensembles on major stages around the world. He is also the artistic director of international music projects and an educator.

Born in Moscow, he studied at the Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music with Vera Birina, at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory with Professor Natalia Shakhovskaya, and at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin with Professor David Geringas. Since 2009, he has taught at the Moscow Conservatory.

Andrianov won the Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition in Zagreb and is a prizewinner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, the Mstislav Rostropovich Competition in Paris, the Isang Yun Competition in South Korea, and competitions in Johannesburg and Hanover.

He has performed with orchestras under Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Krzysztof Penderecki, Gianandrea Noseda, Vasily Petrenko, Dmitri Jurowski, Alexander Vedernikov, Roman Kofman, Stefan Vladar and many other conductors. His chamber music partners have included Yuri Bashmet, Akiko Suwanai, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, Itamar Golan, Denis Matsuev, Vadim Repin, Maxim Vengerov, Sergei Nakariakov, Alexei Lubimov and Tatiana Grindenko.

He has appeared at international festivals in Edinburgh, Schleswig-Holstein, Ludwigsburg, Dubrovnik, Colmar, Davos and other major cultural centres.

Contemporary music holds an important place in Andrianov’s repertoire. He has worked with Giya Kancheli, Krzysztof Penderecki, Giovanni Sollima, Michael Berkeley, Richard Dubugnon, Pavel Karmanov, Osvaldo Golijov and other leading composers. He has given the premieres of many works for cello, a number of which were written for and dedicated to him.

His discography includes an album with guitarist Dmitry Illarionov (Delos), longlisted for a Grammy Award in the chamber music category in 2003; sonatas by Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff with pianist Rem Urasin, named chamber recording of the month by Gramophone in September 2007; Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme with orchestras conducted by Alexander Sladkovsky (Sony Classical) and Dmitri Liss (Fuga Libera); the world-premiere recording of Gabriel Prokofiev’s Cello Concerto (Signum Records); Cello Music, featuring works by Sergei Akhunov and Giya Kancheli written especially for the VIVACELLO Festival (Aparté); and Samuel Strouk’s double concerto Élise, mon mirage, commissioned by VIVACELLO and recorded with Dmitry Illarionov and the Orchestre National de Bretagne conducted by Aurélien Azan Zielinski (Well Done Simone! Records, 2026).

Boris Andrianov is the founder and artistic director of the VIVACELLO International Cello Festival, the VIVARTE International Chamber Music Festival and the Musical Expedition, a travelling festival with a new route each year. Its concerts take place in historic locations and country estates, in small towns and villages, and outdoors amid natural landscapes.