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Internationally acclaimed conductor and multi-instrumentalist Yuri Medianik is music director and principal conductor of Tyumen Philharmonic Orchestra, principal conductor of the VGTRK All-Russian Broadcasting Television State Company. He is a frequent international guest and shares the stage with some of the world’s leading artists including Vadim Repin, Maxim Vengerov, Avi Avital, Boris Berezovsky,  Anna Netrebko, Aida Garifullina, and popular artists Dimash Qudaibergen, Andrea Bocelli and Lara Fabian. 

In 2020 Yuri Medianik completed a few CD recordings. Among them the release of his collaboration as a bayanist with world famous pianist Eduard Kunz. Another recording is the album «Tango Flavor» by Yuri Medianik & Emotion Orchestra. 

Maestro Medianik has lead the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, Chuncheon Symphony (South Korea), Israel Camerata, Ashdod Symphony Orchestra (Israel) and others

Dedicated to bridging classical and popular worlds, Maestro Medianik is the founder and conductor of the VGTRK All-Russian Broadcasting Television State Company, an orchestra that brings together traditional and popular instruments to perform genres from the baroque to opera to jazz to crossover. This orchestra is featured on the competition Blue Bird (Sinyaya Pitza) which is viewed in each season by over 80 million viewers throughout Russia, making Medianik one of the most celebrated and well-known conductors in Russia. 

Medianik began his musical studies at one and a half years old on Bayan and went on to receive first prize in half a dozen Bayan international competitions, and performed frequently for Russian TV. He started to play violin at the age of 7, began touring at age of 10 and completed his first recording on violin with the Bochum Chamber Orchestra (Germany). He went on to perform violin with twenty orchestras around the world. Still an active performer, Medianik performed bandoneón for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in 2015 which hosted Presidents, Prime Ministers and Heads of State from fifteen countries. In 2017 he performed as a bayanist at Jazz Rally in Dusseldorf and in 2018 at Emilia Romagna Festival in Italy. 

He promotes good music and educate audience with his rubric Music Tips on his Youtube channel which can be watched in Russian, English and Chinese. Passionate about connecting with his community and giving back, Maestro Medianik has served as an ambassador since 2017 to Be the Human, an organization that provides support to children who are struggling with illness.