Boris Kuschnir (born 1948) is a Soviet Austrian violinist Born in Kiev in 1948, he studied violin with Boris Beleňkiy [ru] at the Moscow Conservatoire and chamber music with Valentin Berlinsky[1] of the Borodin Quartet.
His career started in 1969 when he was one of the three winners of the Allunions-Competition in Leningrad where, in the final, he performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Yuri Temirkanov.
Several of Kuschnir's students were successful at international violin competitions:[citation needed] Kuschnir gives masterclasses at renowned classical music events like the Verbier Festival Academy and Kronberg Academy.
[citation needed] In 1984 Boris Kuschnir founded the Wiener Schubert Trio.
[citation needed] Kuschnir founded the Vienna Brahms Trio in 1993.