Education
Gringolts studied violin in Saint St. Petersburg with Tatiana Liberova and Jeanna Metallidi. He then attended the Juilliard School, and studied violin with Itzhak Perlman for 3 years.
Gringolts studied violin in Saint St. Petersburg with Tatiana Liberova and Jeanna Metallidi. He then attended the Juilliard School, and studied violin with Itzhak Perlman for 3 years.
Gringolts is currently on the music faculty of the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. In addition to the modern violin, he has a continued commitment to period-instrument performance. He founded the Gringolts Quartet in 2008 and plays first violin in the quartet.
Gringolts plays the "ex-Kiesewetter" Stradivarius violin, loaned to him by the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
Gringolts has made commercial recordings for such labels as Onyx and Deutsche Grammophon. Gringolts is married to the Armenian violinist Anahit Kurtikyan.
The couple have two daughters. 1992: All-Russian Junior Competition, Second Prize.
From 2001 to 2003, Gringolts was a member of the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3 New Generation Artists programme.