Concert Xavier Phillips (cello) and Igor Tchetuev (piano)
World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera Theatre - Opera and Concert Hall
Schedule for Xavier Phillips (cello) and Igor Tchetuev (piano) 2022
Piano: Igor Tchetuev
Cello: Xavier Phillips
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
IGOR TCHETUEV
Beaming like a laser, confident yet unaggressive, shining, colourful,
structured without being rigid, the work of Igor Tchetuev makes every piece’s
vital force emerge.
Le Monde
Piano
Igor Tchetuev was born in Sevastopol (Ukraine) in 1980 and at the
age of fourteen won the Grand Prix at the International Vladimir Krainev Young
Pianists’ Competition (Ukraine) and was a student of maestro Krainev. In 1998,
aged eighteen, he won 1st prize at the IX Arthur Rubinstein International Piano
Masters’ Competition at which he was also voted “Audience Favourite”.
From
2013-15 Igor Tchetuev will be a guest performer of the Orchestre National de
Bordeaux (Beethoven’s Third Concerto), the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra under
Gьnter Neuhold (Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto), the Russian National Philharmonic
under Ken-David Masur (Beethoven’s Triple Concerto), the Orchestre Pasdeloup at
the Salle Pleyel (Beethoven’s Third Concerto), the Prague Symphony Orchestra
(Beethoven’s Fourth and Tchaikovsky’s First Concerti), the Orchestre National de
Montpellier (Tchaikovsky First under Ari Rasilainen) and the Orchestre
Philharmonique de Marseilles (Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto under Adrian
Prabava).
He regularly gives recitals in France and Europe, including his
return to the Stars of the White Nights festival in St Petersburg where he will
be performing a solo recital and a duo with Ferruccio Furlanetto. He will be
appearing at the Wigmore Hall, the Salle Gaveau, the Festival de Menton, the
Colmar Festival, the Chopin Festival in Paris, the Montpellier Festival and the
Lille Piano Festival in addition to performing chamber music at the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Rudolfinum in Prague, the Mariinsky Theatre,
Berlin’s Philharmonie, La Scala in Milan, the Wiener Staatsoper and the Opйra
Garnier in Paris (accompanying Ferruccio Furlanetto). Igor Tchetuev has recently
performed as a solo pianist with ensembles including the Mariinsky Orchestra,
the Orchestre National de France, WDR Orchestra (Cologne), Hallй Orchestra, the
Moscow Virtuosi, the St Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Polish
National Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Bern Philharmonic, NDR
Hanover, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Dortmund Orchester, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Miami New World Symphony and
the Orchestre National de Lille under such conductors as Evgeny Svetlanov,
Valery Gergiev, Semyon Bychkov, Neeme Jдrvi, Gьnther Herbig, Vladimir Spivakov,
Marc Elder, Rafael Frьhbeck de Burgos, Maxim Vengerov, Alexander Dmitriev,
Justus Franz, Maxim Shostakovich, Jean-Yves Ossonce, Jean-Claude Casadesus,
Vladimir Sirenko and Vladimir Vakoulsky.
He has played chamber music with
cellist Xavier Phillips, violinists Valery Sokolov, David Grimal, Fanny
Clamagirand, Zino Francescatti, Chloл Hanslip and Andrey Bielov, oboist Alexei
Ogrintchouk and the Szymanowski Quartet.
Each year Tchetuev gives a number
of appearances at select venues such as the St Petersburg Festival, the
Mariinsky Theatre, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Berlin’s Philharmonie, the
Wiener Staatsoper, the Wigmore Hall, the Thйвtre des Champs-Йlysйes, the
Festival de Menton, the Colmar International Festival, the Menuhin Festival in
Gstaad, the Klavierfestival Ruhr, the Braunschweig Festival, the Sintra
Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Paris (Louvre Auditorium, Paris
Chopin Festival), the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and the Festival de Radio
France et Montpellier not to mention the festival in La Roque d’Anthйron, where
he appeared for an acclaimed evening recital (Chopin’s twenty-four Йtudes).
Igor Tchetuev undertakes regular recital tours in Europe and his recordings
have received numerous awards; with the violinist Andrei Bielov he has recorded
all the Prokofiev Sonatas for Violin and Piano on Naxos. He has also recorded a
recital of Romantic Йtudes featuring Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin, (Tri-M
Classic), the three Chopin sonatas (Orfeo), Alfred Schnittke: Complete Piano
Sonatas (Caro Mitis, Russia; Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik in
Germany, R10 in Classica-Repertoire in France and a rave review in Gramophone
Magazine) and his most recent recordings are his first five volumes of the
Complete Beethoven Sonatas (Caro Mitis, Russia) with fabulous press reviews and
a Medtner recording with the violinist Chloл Hanslip (Hyperion). Xavier
Phillips
Born in Paris in 1971, Xavier Phillips began to study
the cello at the age of six. Aged fifteen he entered
Philippe Muller’s studio at the Conservatoire de Paris and graduated
with distinction in 1989.
Xavier Philips has been a prize-winner
at several competitions. He took 2nd prize and
the Young Performer’s Special Award at the International
Competition in Belgrade, the Special Award
at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow,
3rd prize and the Special Award at the Mstislav
Rostropovich Competition in Paris and 1st prize
at the I International Cello Competition in Helsinki (presented
following a unanimous vote). The young musician’s appearance
at the Mstislav Rostropovich Competition created a tremendous
impression on the maestro himself. Following that meeting, Xavier Phillips
began to perfect his skills under the guidance of the famed
maestro.
Phillips was soon receiving invitations to perform
at the world’s great concert venues with such orchestras as
the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de
Radio France, the Bavarian Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, the Berliner
Symphoniker, the Houston Symphony, the BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Filarmonica
della Scala under such eminent conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Kurt Masur,
Christoph Eschenbach, James Conlon, Marek Janowski, Serge Baudo, Vladimir
Fedoseyev, Ion Marin, Kazushi Ono, Jesús López-Cobos, Günther Herbig, Eliahu
Inbal and Vladimir Spivakov.
In September 2001 Phillips made his acclaimed
debut with the Orchestre de Paris. Following that, Mstislav Rostropovich
invited him to appear in a joint performance of Prokofiev’s Sinfonia
concertante with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington and
the New York Philharmonic Orchestra that he conducted. Less than
a year passed before Xavier Phillips made his debut with the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Variations
on a Rococo Theme. His illustrious mentor was once again
at the conductor’s stand. Following this series of successful
appearances the cellist was invited to the USA for several concerts
with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra under Vasily Sinaisky. In September
2006 Phillips appeared with the Orchestre de Paris at the opening
of the refurbished Salle Pleyel. Critics have lavished praise on his
interpretation of Dutilleux’ cello concerto Tout un Monde
lointain. The composer, who was himself present
at the performance, later said that “Xavier Phillips fully owns this
work and evokes the very essence of its title – ‘all
a distant world’”.
Engagements for the 2013–2014 and 2014–2015
seasons include a performance of Édouard Lalo’s Cello Concerto with
the Orchestre de Paris under Paavo Järvi at the Salle Pleyel as
well as featuring in a tour by the orchestra to China,
a performance of Bloch’s rhapsody for cello and orchestra
Schelomo with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under
Fabien Gabel, Shostakovich’s Second Concerto with the Cité de la Musique
in Paris, works by Dutilleux and Schumann with the Seattle Symphony
Orchestra, Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Orchestre National de Lorraine,
a concert at the Konzerthaus in Berlin with
the Bavarian Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, appearances
at the International Festival in Colmar and the Bogotá
Festival together with pianist Igor Tchetuev and violinist Fanny Clamagirand
(Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the National Philharmonic Orchestra
of Russia) and a collaboration with the Florida Orchestra under
Ludovic Morlot and Stefan Sanderling.
Together with Albanian violinist Tedi
Papavrami and French pianist François-Frédéric Guy, Xavier Phillips plans to
perform and record the complete Beethoven chamber works for piano and
strings. The musician also plans to record Dutilleux’ cello concerto
Tout un Monde lointain with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra under
Ludovic Morlot. Xavier Phillips dedicates much of his attention to chamber
music. He has worked with musicians including Shlomo Mintz, Jean-Marc
Phillips-Varjabédian, Régis Pasquier, David Grimal, Emmanuel Strosser, Vahan
Mardirossian, Igor Tchetuev, Vanessa Wagnr and Romain Guyot among others.
The musician has an extensive discography and his recordings have won prizes
on numerous occasions. Phillips’ discs of works by Kodály (with his brother
Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian; Harmonia Mundi / Lontano), works for cello and
orchestra (EMI Classics) and Sonatas of Schnittke, Shostakovich and
Prokofiev (with pianist Hüseyin Sermet; Harmonia Mundi) received
the Choc prize from Le Monde de la Musique magazine.
The cellist has also received the Grand Prix du Disque award
for his recording of chamber music by Albéric Magnard (Auvidis
Valois). The disc Armenia, dedicated to Armenian music with
Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian and Vahan Mardirossian (Warner Classics),
received the Choc de l’année prize in 2007.
Xavier
Phillips devotes much of his time to teaching. For several years he was an
assistant to Roland Pidoux at the Conservatoire National de Paris,
running numerous seminars and master-classes.
Xavier Phillips plays
a Matteo Goffriller cello from 1710.
Xavier Phillips
Igor Tchetuev
PROGRAMME:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cello and Piano Sonata No 3 in A
Major, Op. 69
Benjamin Britten
Cello and Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 65
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Cello and Piano Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19
Schedule for Xavier Phillips (cello) and Igor Tchetuev (piano) 2022
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