Ignat Solzhenitsyn (Conductor)
Recognized as one of today's most gifted artists, and enjoying an active
career as both conductor and pianist, Ignat Solzhenitsyn's lyrical and poignant
interpretations have won him critical acclaim throughout the world.
Principal Guest Conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Ignat
Solzhenitsyn has just stepped down after six seasons as Music Director of
the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, to become its Conductor Laureate. He
is much in demand as a guest conductor, having recently led
the symphonies of Baltimore, Buffalo, Dallas, Indianapolis, Nashville, New
Jersey, North Carolina, Seattle, Toledo, and Toronto, the Nordwestdeutsche
Philharmonie, as well as many of the major orchestras in Russia
including the Mariinsky Orchestra, the St Petersburg
Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic, and the Moscow Symphony. He has
partnered with such world-renowned soloists as Richard Goode, Gary Graffman,
Steven Isserlis, Leila Josefowicz, Sylvia McNair, Garrick Ohlsson, Mstislav
Rostropovich, and Mitsuko Uchida.
In recent seasons, his extensive touring schedule in the United
States and Europe has included concerto performances with numerous major
orchestras, including those of Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Saint Louis, Los
Angeles, Seattle, Baltimore, Washington, Montreal, Toronto, London, Paris,
Israel, and Sydney, and collaborations with such distinguished conductors as
Herbert Blomstedt, James Conlon, James DePreist, Charles Dutoit, Lawrence
Foster, Valery Gergiev, Krzysztof Penderecki, Andrй Previn, Mstislav
Rostropovich, Gerard Schwarz, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Maxim Shostakovich, Yuri
Temirkanov and David Zinman. In addition to his recital appearances
in the United States at New York’s 92nd Street Y, Philadelphia's
Kimmel Center, St. Paul's Ordway Theatre, Ann Arbor’s Hill Auditorium, Salt
Lake City’s Abravanel Hall, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, and many others from
coast to coast, Mr. Solzhenitsyn has also given numerous recitals
in Europe and the Far East in such major musical centers as
London, Milan, Zurich, Moscow, Tokyo, and Sydney.
An avid chamber musician, Mr.&nbap;Solzhenitsyn has collaborated with
the Emerson, Borodin, Brentano, and St. Petersburg String Quartets, and
in four-hand recital with Mitsuko Uchida. He has frequently appeared at
international festivals, including Salzburg, Evian, Ludwigsburg, Caramoor, Ojai,
Marlboro, Nizhniy Novgorod and Moscow’s famed December Evenings.
A winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Ignat Solzhenitsyn serves on
the piano faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music. He has been
featured on many radio and television specials, including CBS Sunday Morning and
ABC’s Nightline. Born in Moscow, Mr. Solzhenitsyn resides in New
York City with his wife and three children.
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