Arkady Volodos (Piano)
When Arcadi Volodos conquered concert halls all over the world with his
breathtaking piano playing and own transcriptions, everyone hailed him as the
“new Horowitz”. In the meantime, he has shown that he is much more than that:
his boundless virtuosity along with his unique sense of timing, colour and
poetry have made him a romantic narrator of powerful stories. A baroque melody
played by Arcadi Volodos is as striking and fascinating as a performance of the
Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto.
Born in St Petersburg in 1972, Volodos first studied vocals and conducting,
but did not begin to study the piano seriously until 1987 at the St Petersburg
State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. He then pursued his studies at the Moscow
Conservatoire under Galina Egiazarova, and later in Paris and Madrid.
Since his New York debut in 1996, Volodos has performed in recitals and has
appeared internationally with many of the most renowned orchestras and
conductors, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tonhalle
Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony
Orchestra led by, among others, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Myung-Whun Chung, Michael
Tilson-Thomas, Valery Gergiev, James Levine, Zubin Mehta and Seiji Ozawa. Mr
Volodos regularly appears in recitals at Carnegie Hall in New York, the
Philharmonie in Berlin, Vienna’s Musikverein and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
in Paris as well as in Chicago, Los Angeles and every major European city. Since
his highly acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2002, he has been invited
to return there every subsequent year. In 2009, Arcadi Volodos opened the
Liszt-Szenen in Salzburg and went on to tour South America. Future engagements
include recitals and concerts in Korea, Munich, Zurich, Madrid, Lisbon,
Amsterdam, the Klavier-Festival Ruhr and La Roque d’Anthéron. He collaborates
with conductors including Vasily Petrenko, Vladimir Jurowski and Riccardo
Chailly.
Arcadi Volodos made his now historic Carnegie Hall recital debut in the
autumn of 1998, recorded by Sony Classical and entitled Arcadi Volodos Live at
Carnegie Hall. Since then he has released various CDs, among them
interpretations of Schubert’s Sonatas, Rachmaninoff’s solo pieces and
transcriptions and live performances of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and
Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under
James Levine and Seiji Ozawa. In February 2007, Sony Classical released his
latest CD Volodos Plays Liszt, for which Arcadi Volodos was hailed by Gramophone
Magazine and received the Diapason D’Or and the ECHO-Klassik Award in 2007. In
spring 2010, Arte will be broadcasting his recital at the Musikverein in Vienna
in March 2008, which will also be released on CD and DVD.
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