It’s about the touch

Duo “Irina & Feliks”
The three pieces for guitar and cello on this album are the debut recording of the duo “Irina & Feliks”. Irina Kulikova has known Feliks Volozhanin since she was eight years old. They lived on the same street in Chelyabinsk, Russia, and attended the same music school. They met again in 2014 in California and started performing as a duo. They tour across the USA, including cities such as New York, Dallas, Austin and Miami.

Feliks Volozhanin began studying cello at the age of seven. At twelve, he became a laureate of Chelyabinsk State Youth Cello Competition and continued his studies at State Institute of Music in Moscow, Russia. Since moving to the United States, Mr. Volozhanin has won first prizes in many contests, including the Elizabeth Harper Vaughn, the Rapides Symphony and the SLU Concerto Competitions. Mr Volozhanin served as a principal cellist of the University Symphony Orchestra and the Cello Choir of the California State University Fullerton. He is the co-founder of the Russian School of Music in Irvine, California, USA.