Aleksey Volodin

Aleksey Volodin

Alexei Volodin (born 1977) is a Russian pianist.

He was born in St. Petersburg, and began taking piano lessons there at the age of nine. A year later he moved to Moscow, where he studied first with I. Chaklina and later with T. Zelikman at the Gnessin Music School. In 1994 he enrolled in the master class of Professor Eliso Virsaladze at the Moscow Conservatoire. 2001/2002 he rounded off his studies at the Theo Lieven International Piano Foundation in Como.

He was 2003 the winner of the 9th Concours Géza Anda in Zurich

Meanwhile Volodin looks back on a remarkable career: recitals in Russia, Spain, France, Norway, Germany, Italy, Holland, Australia and Switzerland. He has also performed with prestigious orchestras, such as the Sydney Symphony, the Orchestra della Radio Svizzera Italiana, the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater, the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Hannover, the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony, the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich. He has worked with conductors like Christopher Hogwood, Thierry Fischer, Eiji Oue, Gerd Albrecht, Carlo Rizzi, Zoltan Kocsis, David Zinman, Valery Gergiev and Vladimir Fedoseyev, among others.

In May 2005, Alexei Volodin gave his debut recital at the Champs-Elysées Theater, where he achieved an extraordinary public and critical success, being immediately re-invited for the next seasons.

The Live-Recording of his debut-recital at the Munich Herkulessaal has recently been released with works by Ludwig van Beethoven (Opus 111), Sergei Rachmaninoff (Moments musicaux Op. 16) and Sergei Prokofiev (Sonata No. 7).(Label: Live-Classics)

External links

* [http://www.alexeivolodin.com Alexei Volodin] - the official site


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