Alexei Volodin
Alexei Volodin (Russian: Алексей Володин; 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 Irina Chaklina and later with Tatiana Zelikman at the Gnessin Music School. In 1994 he enrolled at the Moscow Conservatory and at the end of his studies there in 2001 in the master class of Professor Eliso Virsaladze. 2001/2002 he rounded off his studies at the Theo Lieven International Piano Foundation in Como, Italy.
He was the winner of the 9th Concours Géza Anda in Zurich in 2003.
Volodin looks back on a remarkable career: he gave recitals all over the world, and has 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, Gewandhaus-Orchester Leipzig, 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 Riccardo Chailly, Mikhail Pletnev, Eiji Oue, Gerd Albrecht, Carlo Rizzi, Zoltan Kocsis, David Zinman, Valery Gergiev and Vladimir Fedoseyev, among others.
Since 2012, Alexei Volodin has been an artists under general management of the leading British artist agency HarrisonParrott Ltd.
Discography
- Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Works
- Miroirs
- Frederic Chopin - Piano works
- Beethoven: Sonatas op. 109, E-dur & op. 106, B-dur ("für das Hammerklavier")
- Beethoven: Sonata c-moll op. 111; Rachmaninov: 6 Moments musicaux op. 16; Prokofiev: Sonata no. 7 op. 83
- TCHAIKOVSKY; STRAVINSKY
External links
- Alexei Volodin official website
- HarrisonParrott website
- Alexei Volodin on a site of opera and ballet
- The New York Times (2009)
- Avery Fisher Hall with Valery Gergiev
- Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
- Total Immersion: The Rite of Spring, Barbican: в The Telegraph
- Alexei Volodin at Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad
- Alexei Volodin in Harrison&Parrot