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After almost 40 years as Principal First Violinist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Yury Gezentsvey is about to play his last concert with them.
He left the Soviet Union as a refugee in 1979, and moved to Wellington with his family six years later, after playing in orchestras in the United States and Venezuela.
Yury has also taken part in several Festival of the Arts in Wellington, as leader of the "Gezentsvey Quartet", as soloist with the Massey Piano Quartet and as a member of the New Zealand Piano Quartet.
Lynn Freeman talked to Yury Gezentsvey about how he came to start learning the violin as a child.
Yury Gezentsvey's last concert with the NZSO is the Messiah on 10 December at the Michael Fowler Centre in Te Whanganui -a-Tara Wellington.
