Boris was born in 1954 in Dnepropetrovsk Ukraine, where in 1973 he finished Musical High School, in the study of percussion instruments. He left his hometown for St.Petesburg to continue his musical education at the Academy of Music. During his studies he started working with the St.Petesburg Symphony Orchestra, where he performed with well-known Russian conductors such as Yevgeny Mravinsky, Shostakovich, Badchan, Karapetian and many others.

After graduation from the Academy, Boris was invited to join the Jewish Chamber Musical Theatre in Moscow as a stage musician and actor. After six years Boris left the theatre for a five-year period of work as a stage musician, dancer and singer with the Russian National Folkloric Band. During this period he had an opportunity to visit and perform in 25 different countries, on five different continents, where he started to collect traditional local instruments and learned to play by studying with well-known native musicians.

From 1990 onwards Boris worked with the Footsbarn Traveling Theatre (France) as a musician and actor where he traveled, collected instruments and gathered rare and valuable musical information. He spent five years in Israel, working with Habima National Theatre, teaching at Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, writing music for films and plays and performing.

Boris came to Canada in 2004 and has performed with Uzume Taiko, Pepe Danza, Saul Berson, as well as leading workshops, and participating in many festivals such as Blue Mountain, Treefest, Fair in the Squire, BC Rivers Day. His solo show “Around The World with Boris”, incorporates the playing of approximately 25 instruments from his collection. This collection makes up over 200 rare and unique musical instruments from around the world.

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