TIMUR YAKUBOV
Timur Yakubov is Principal Viola of Residentie Orkest (The Hague Philharmonic) and Docent of Viola at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He performs internationally across orchestral, chamber, and solo repertoire, appearing at major venues including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall, Berliner Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, and Lincoln Center in New York.
The Guardian
"Aviv String Quartet is rapidly emerging as one of today's finest chamber ensembles. Rich, warm and distinctive in sound, their playing combining technical exactitude with instinctive emotional intensity..."
Strad
"Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet D810 was the highlight, with fantastic energy and rhythmic integrity in the outer movements, beautiful intonation and balance in the second movement and well-crafted ideas all around."
Badische Zeitung
"The interpretation of Mendelssohn’s F minor String Quartet op.80 by first and second violinists Sergey Ostrovsky and Evgenia Epshtein, violist Timur Yakubov and cellist Aleksandr Khramouchin, would be difficult to surpass in expressiveness and dramatic effect"