Maksim Zabara was born in 1975 in Minsk, Republic of Belarus, into a family of musicians: his mother, a violinist and his father, Professor of Clarinet at the Belarus National Academy of Music. At the age of 6 he was accepted into the special music school at the Belarus State Conservatory. He began studying bassoon in 1990, and in 1991 was the winner of the Belarus Republic Competition for Young Woodwind Instrumentalists. In 1994 he was accepted into the National Music Academy of the Ukraine in Kiev to study with Professor Vladimir Apatsky. In 1996 he was the winner of the International Competition for Wind Players in Minsk, then continued studies that year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada. He earned his Master of Music in 1997 at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, where he studied with Professor Valery Popov. From 1996 to 2003 he played principal bassoon at the Kiev Opera Theatre, the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra, and first and second bassoon with the Russian National Academic Symphony Capella and the Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Russian Philharmonic. He has performed as a soloist and in woodwind ensembles in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Germany, The Netherlands and Japan. |
