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Arcadi Volodos | |
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 Volodos at a concert in Basel | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 24 February 1972 Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation | Pianist |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Labels | Sony Classical |
Arcadi Arcadievich Volodos [n 1] (born 24 February 1972) is a Russian-born French pianist. One of the world's most acclaimed pianists, he has won such awards as the Echo Klassik, Gramophone Award, Diapason d'Or, and Edison Award for his discography. [1]
Born in Leningrad 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 while a student at the Glinka Chapel School and the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. 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 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 Dmitri Bashkirov and Galina Eguiazarova. He is of French nationality and resides in Spain with his wife and daughter. [2]
Despite the relative brevity of his formal studies, Volodos has rapidly moved into the elite pantheon of the world's most distinguished pianists. [3] Thomas Frost, the producer of many of Vladimir Horowitz'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. He additionally received two Grammy Award nominations: one for his 1996 recording of piano transcriptions and another for his 1999 live recording of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and James Levine. [4]
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