Arcadi Arcadievich Volodos (russian: Аркадий Аркадьевич Володось, links=no, ''Arkadij Arkadjevich Volodos''; born 24 February 1972) is a Russian

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

and composer. His first name is sometimes transliterated Arcady or Arkady.

Biography

Born in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

in 1972, he began his musical training studying voice, following the example of his parents, who were singers, and later shifted his emphasis to

conducting Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary dutie ...

while a student at the Glinka Chapel School and the

Saint Petersburg Conservatory The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as th ...

. Though he had played the piano from the age of eight, he did not devote himself to serious study of the instrument until 1987. His formal piano training took place at the

Moscow Conservatory Music College Academic Music College, fully Tchaikovsky Academic Music College at the Moscow State Conservatory (russian: Академическое музыкальное училище при Московской государственной консер� ...

with Galina Eguiazarova. Volodos also studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jacques Rouvier. In Madrid, he studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music with Dimitri Bashkirov and Galina Eguiazarova. Despite the relative brevity of his formal studies, Volodos has rapidly moved into the elite pantheon of the world's most distinguished pianists.

Thomas Frost Thomas Frost (born March 7, 1925) is a multiple Grammy Award-winning classical music producer, who won many of his awards for producing the albums of Vladimir Horowitz. Frost is the father of producer David Frost."Like Father, Like Son", ''Billbo ...

, the producer of many of

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's recordings, and producer of Volodos' recordings for Sony Classical, has said that Volodos "has everything: imagination, colour, passion and a phenomenal technique to carry out his ideas." Volodos received the German award Echo Klassik as the best instrumentalist of 2003; he received the Gramophone Award for best instrumental recording in 1999 for ''Arcadi Volodos Live at Carnegie Hall'', in 2010 for ''Volodos in Vienna'', in 2014 for ''Volodos plays Mompou'', and in 2018 for ''Volodos plays Brahms''. His "Concert Paraphrase on Mozart's Turkish March" has been recorded by several other pianists.

Compositions

* Concert Paraphrase on Mozart's Turkish March, for piano (1997) * Concert Paraphrase on Rachmaninoff's Polka italienne, for piano (2003)

Recordings

*''Volodos: Piano Transcriptions'' (1997), Sony Classical *''Volodos, Live at

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'' (Recorded October 21, 1998, released 1999), Sony Classical *''Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 / Solo Piano Works'' (2000), Sony Classical *''Schubert: Solo Piano Works'' (2002), Sony Classical *''Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Rachmaninoff: Solo Piano Works'' (2003), Sony Classical *''Volodos Plays Liszt'' (2007), Sony Classical *''Volodos in Vienna'' (2010) Recorded live on March 1, 2009 (works of Scriabin, Ravel, Schumann and Liszt), Sony Classical *''Volodos plays Mompou'' (2013) Recorded October & December 2012, Sony Classical *''Volodos plays Brahms'' (2017), Sony Classical *''Volodos: Schubert Piano Sonata D.959 & Minuets D. 334, D. 335, D. 600'' (2019), Sony Classical

References

External links and references

Official websiteArcadi Volodos website at Sony Classical
{{DEFAULTSORT:Volodos, Arcadi Russian classical pianists Male classical pianists 1972 births Living people Reina Sofía School of Music alumni Conservatoire de Paris alumni Moscow Conservatory alumni Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni