Biography
Vladislav won Georgian national violin competitions in 1979, 1980 and 1983. His first solo appearance with an orchestra took place in 1979 when he performed Antonio Vivaldi’s a-minor Violin concerto with the Georgian Chamber Orchestra. In 1985 he entered Tbilisi Music College No3, where he continued his studies under David Reizner. In 1986 he became a student of the Moscow Conservatoire Music College where he was studying under Olga Voitova and Maya Glezarova. In 1987 he’s won Mendelssohn concerto competition and later performed this concerto in the Kolonny Hall in Moscow. In 1989 he continued his studies in the Moscow State Conservatoire. In 1991 Vladislav started to work with Sergey Fatkulin. Under Fatkulin's tutorship in 1992 he became the prizewinner of the 4th Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition in Odense, Denmark.
After graduating from Moscow Conservatoire in 1994, during the next three years he continued his training first in Internationalen Bachakademie in Stuttgart, and then in Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. On his return to Moscow he became a member of Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and toured with this ensemble during its 1997-1998 season. When due to the financial crisis all the previously planned orchestra’s concerts where cancelled Vladislav sat himself to finish the long time growing project: the book of poetry and prose "Travels", which he started writing in 1993. The book was published in 1999 in Moscow by "Galaktika" publishing house under the name Vladislav Steinberg.
In the year 2000 Vladislav Adelkhanov was invited to teach violin and viola in St Leonards School in St. Andrews, Scotland. Five of his pupils became the members of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. In 2004 Vladislav was appointed at the post of the leader and coach of St. Andrews University Symphony Orchestra. Earlier still, in December 2001 he performed 24 Paganini Capriccios in the hall of St John's Smith Square, London. Under the stage name Vladislav Steinberg he gives recitals and performs with the orchestra the violin concertos written by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Orchestras he is associated with include Edinburgh Philharmonic, Osaka Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Heiselberg Ensemble, Dundee Symphony, Philharmonie der Nationen, London Symphony.
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