Award-winning International Trumpet Soloist. Unanimously 1st Prize at the ITG-Ellsworth-Smith Competition (USA/Germany), a Grand Prix at the Maurice André Competition (Paris, a winner of the International Trumpet Competition in Toulon (France), Andrei Kavalinski is today according to the critics one of the best trumpet players in the world.
Currently principal trumpet of the Orchestre National de France, he has held the same position at the Brussels Philharmonic.
He graduated in Germany unanimously with the highest possible marks and congratulations of the jury at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. Andrei Kavalinski has collaborated with the greatest musical ensembles such as the Royal ConcertgebouwOrchestra, NDR-Elbphilharmonie Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie- Orchester Berlin, the South Korean Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto (Italy), the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (Norway), the Nordic Chamber Orchestra (Sweden), the South Netherland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kyoto Chamber Orchestra (Japan) a.o.
Passionate about solo repertoire and chamber music, he works often with different groups such as Belgian Brass Ensemble and ISolisti del Vento as well as with the composers. Many of them have dedicated AndreiKavalinski their works. He also performs at numerous festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Prague SpringInternational Festival, the Radio France Festival, the Festival of Flanders, the Trompettissimo, the Roztrabiony Kalisz, the IBBA Festival, the Make it Brass Festival, theUzutrakio vakarai, the Velika Gorica Festival, the Yeosu Music Festival, the Epsival Festival and others.
2022 his recording of Shostakovich Concertos on Linn Records with pianist Simon Troceski and the Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra received worldwide acclaim and became a finalist at the ICMA International Classical Music Awards.
As a Bresmair Artist and Schagerl Artist Andrei Kavalinski works actively on the creation of new mouthpieces and trumpet models. 2023 new Bres|mair mouthpiece model «Andrei Kavalinski» appeared, which is already in great demand all over the world and has received lots of positivereviews. A new Schagerl C-trumpet model «Andrei Kavalinski» appeared in 2024. Today, this model is used in many leading orchestras in the USA, Europe and Asia. As a teacher, Andrei Kavalinski gives numerous masterclasses worldwide and is called upon to participate in and chair juries at numerous international competitions such as the International Maurice André Trumpet
Competition in Paris and the ARD Competition in Munich. Andrei Kavalinski received the Karlheinz-Stockhausen-
Prize, Timofei-Dokshizer-Prize and Richard-Wagner-Prize among others.