Rustem Hayroudinoff (russian: link=no, Рустем Афзалович Хайрутдинов) is a Russian concert pianist.

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). His father, Afzal Hayroudinoff is a Professor of Cello at the Kazan State Conservatory. His brother, Halida Hayrutdinova, is also an acclaimed concert pianist. Rustem Hayroudinoff graduated from the

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, where he studied with

Lev Naumov Lev Nikolayevich Naumov (russian: Лев Никола́евич Нау́мов; 12 February 1925, Rostov – 21 August 2005, Moscow) was a Russians, Russian classical pianist, composer and educator. Received a title of People's Artist of Russi ...

, and received his postgraduate degree (DipRAM) at the

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in London with Christopher Elton. He was the first student from Soviet Union to come to study at the Royal Academy, where he is now a Professor of Piano. His performances have been broadcast on major classical radio stations around the world and has appeared in the documentary “The Unknown Shostakovich” alongside

Vladimir Ashkenazy Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (russian: Влади́мир Дави́дович Ашкена́зи, ''Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazi''; born 6 July 1937) is an internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor. He ...

Valery Gergiev Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (russian: Вале́рий Абиса́лович Ге́ргиев, ; os, Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери, Gergity Abisaly fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company d ...

and

Maxim Shostakovich Maxim Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (russian: Макси́м Дми́триевич Шостако́вич; born 10 May 1938 in Leningrad) is a Soviet, Russian and American conductor and pianist. He is the second child of the composer Dmitri Shostako ...

. He has recorded CDs for various labels including Chandos,

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and NAMI. His recordings of Shostakovich's Theatre Music and the Dvořák Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic were selected amongst the Best CDs of the Year by

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and the

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magazines respectively. His CD of the

Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one o ...

Complete Preludes was selected by

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as a part of the ‘four discs essential Rachmaninoff collection’, alongside the recordings of

Arthur Rubinstein Arthur Rubinstein ( pl, Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish-American pianist.

and

André Previn André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved ...

, and his recording of the Complete Etudes-Tableaux by Rachmaninoff became the Instrumental Choice of the Month with the

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and was nominated for the BBC Music Magazine Best Instrumental CD of the Year Award. It was also selected as the finest version of these pieces on

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's Building a Library (programme presenter David Nice).

Discography

*Rachmaninov Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 (ONYX4181) *Rachmaninov Complete Etudes-Tableaux (Chandos CHAN10391) *Dvořák Piano Concerto (Chandos CHAN10309) *Shostakovich Symphony No 4 arranged for 2 Pianos, with Colin Stone (Chandos CHAN10296) *Rachmaninov Works for Cello and Piano, with Alexander Ivashkin (Chandos CHAN10095) *Rachmaninov 24 Preludes (Chandos CHAN10107) *Shostakovich Theatre Music (Chandos CHAN9907) *An Equal Music-Music from the Novel (Decca 466945-2) *Rachmaninov, Schubert, Strauss, Chopin (ConAnima)

External links and references

* Vanity Fai

Personal web page

Evening Kazan newspaper
(in Russian)
Today's Zaman. Turkish newspaper
retrieved on October 24, 2007 (in English) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hayroudinoff, Rustem Russian classical pianists Male classical pianists Musicians from Kazan Academics of the Royal Academy of Music Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music Moscow Conservatory alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century classical pianists 21st-century Russian male musicians

Discography

See also

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