Alexei Volodin

In 2003 he received First Prize at the 9th Géza Anda Piano Competition in Zurich.

Alexei Volodin has performed with prestigious orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Filarmonica della Scala, the Russian National Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Tonhalle Zurich and under conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Chailly, Mikhail Pletnev, Marek Janowski, Zoltán Kocsis, David Zinman and Vladimir Fedosseyev, among others.

He is also sought after as a soloist in recitals. His engagements in most of the world's major piano series include the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (Meesterpianisten), Suntory Hall Tokyo (World Pianist Series), Vienna (Konzerthaus and Theater an der Wien), New York (Metropolitan Museum), Madrid (Ibermusica Series), Barcelona (Ibercamera Series), Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées), Stuttgart (Meisterpianisten), Frankfurt (Alte Oper), Lisbon (Gulbenkian), Budapest (Liszt Academy) and Brussels (Bozar).

Alexei Volodin was named the first “Artist of the Month” of the new Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg by Valery Gergiev, with whom he embarked on numerous tours to the USA, Japan, Germany, and Spain. He has been invited to festivals such as Lucerne, La Roque d'Anthéron, Toulouse, Montpellier, Sintra, Ruhr, Heidelberg, Bad Kissingen, Bad Reichenhall, Lichfield, Merano, Moscow, and St. Petersburg (White Nights). Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Prokofief, Ravel, Schumann, and Skriabin have been recorded for “Live Classics” and “Challange Classics.”