Vadim Novikov

Vadim Alexeevich Novikov (Russian: Вадим Алексеевич Новиков; born 19 March 1941) is a Soviet and Russian trumpeter and educator. He is a Professor at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and a former soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. He holds the title of Meritorious Activist of the Arts of the Russian Federation.

Early life and education Novikov was born in Kolomna, Moscow Oblast. He studied at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory from 1959 to 1964 under Sergei Yeryomin and Yuri Ussov. In 1962, while still a student, he won the gold medal at the World Festival of Youth and Students wind instrument competition in Helsinki. He performed with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra under Rudolf Barshai, as well.

Novikov was the first Russian musician to record Baroque music on the trumpet, a concerto by Giuseppe Torelli, in 1959. Since the 1970s, Novikov has performed solo concerts in Russia, the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and Estonia. In 2011, another article in Kul'tura, dedicated to Professor Novikov's 70th birthday, was entitled Forward Looking, quoting the definition given to Novikov on the occasion of his jubilee by Edward Tarr, an American trumpeter and musicologist, who himself pioneered the revival of early trumpet music and whom Novikov met through the work at the Guild.