Since being proclaimed Artist of the Year by Radio-Canada in 2000, the year of his first concert at New York’s Lincoln Center, cellist Yegor Dyachkov has performed regularly in Europe, Asia and America. He is a guest of major orchestras such as those of Antwerp, Geneva, Rio de Janeiro, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, and takes part in numerous international festivals, including those of Evian, Kronberg, Lanaudière, Ottawa, Seattle and Tanglewood. With an emphasis on new music, he takes part in the “Silk Road Project” under the aegis of Yo-Yo Ma, and creates several works dedicated to him by Christos Hatzis, Jacques Hétu, Michael Oesterle, André Prévost and Ana Sokolović. He has released a dozen albums to critical acclaim, notably for Chandos, Analekta and ATMA Classique. A sought-after chamber musician, he collaborates with the Arditti, Borromeo and St. Lawrence quartets, pianists Anton Kuerti, Charles-Richard Hamelin, Martin Roscoe and Andrew Armstrong, violinists James Ehnes, Jonathan Crow, Antje Weithaas, Tessa Lark and Noah Bendix-Balgley, and cellists Colin Carr and Steven Isserlis. He also forms one of the most accomplished cello-piano duos with Jean Saulnier, and is a founding member of the Magellan Ensemble and the Montreal Trio. He is professor of cello and chamber music at the Université de Montréal and also teaches at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music.