Acclaimed as a “keyboard genius”, Arcadi Volodos is without a doubt one of the world’s finest and most prominent pianists. His boundless virtuosity along with his unique sense of phrasing, colour and poetry have made him an ideal “narrator” of Romantic musical tales. In his hands, a simple Baroque melody can be as fascinating as a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto, and his visions of Schubert’s glimpses into the abyss are as striking as his flights into the mystical realms of Liszt.
Born in St. Petersburg in 1972, Arcadi Volodos first studied voice and conducting and did not begin serious training at the piano until 1987 at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He pursued his studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Galina Egiazarova, then in Paris and Madrid.
Since his New York debut in 1996, Arcadi Volodos has performed throughout the world in recital with many of the most eminent orchestras and conductors, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic Orchrestra, Philharmonica Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic, led by, among others, Myung-Whun Chung, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Semyon Bychkov and Riccardo Chailly. Volodos regurarly appears in recital at New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna’s Musikverein and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris as well as in all the other important music centres of Europe, the USA and Japan. Since his highly acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2002, he has been invited to return there every year.
In 2009, Arcadi Volodos presented a Liszt recital at the Salzburg Festival and toured South America. His 2010/11 engagements include recitals and concerts in Korea, London, Zurich, Vienna, Madrid, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, Warsaw, the Ruhr Klavierfestival, La Roque d’Anthéron and the Salzburg Festival as well as concerts with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris and Berlin Philharmonic.
Arcadi Volodos’s now historic Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1998 was recorded and released by Sony Classical. Since then the label has issued a series of acclaimed CDs featuring his interpretations of Schubert sonatas, Rachmaninoff solo pieces and transcriptions as well as live performances with the Berlin Philharmonic of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, under James Levine, and Tchaïkovsky’s First Piano Concerto, under Seiji Ozawa. The 2007 release Volodos plays Liszt was named an Editor’s Choice by Gramophone magazine (“Liszt playing of uncommon, profound insight”), singled out as a Diapason d’Or and honoured with the annual ECHO-Klassik Award. In 2010 his Musikverein recital from the previous year was released on CD and DVD to rapturous international critical acclaim.
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