Vladimir Ovchinnikov |

Vladimir Ovchinnikov

“Anyone who has ever heard the performance of Vladimir Ovchinnikov, the most sensitive and expressive pianist, is aware of the perfection of form, the purity and power of sound that his fingers and intellect reproduce,” this Daily Telegraph statement largely reflects the brightness and originality art of the musician-successor of the famous Neuhaus school.

Vladimir Ovchinnikov was born in 1958 in Bashkiria. He graduated from the Central Special Music School at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of A.D. Artobolevskaya, and in 1981 from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied under Professor A.A. Nasedkin (a student of G.G. Neuhaus).

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Ovchinnikov is a laureate of the International Piano Competition in Montreal (Canada, 1980nd prize, 1984), the International Competition for Chamber Ensembles in Vercelli (Italy, 1982st prize, 1987). Particularly important are the victories of the musician at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (XNUMX) and at the International Piano Competition in Leeds (Great Britain, XNUMX), after which Ovchinnikov made his triumphant debut in London, where he was specially invited to play before Queen Elizabeth .

The pianist performs with many of the world’s largest orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Orchestra (Great Britain), the Royal Scottish Orchestra, the Chicago, Montreal, Zurich, Tokyo, Hong Kong Symphony Orchestras, the Gewandhaus Orchestra (Germany), the National Polish Radio Orchestra, The Hague Resident Orchestra, Radio France Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia.

Many well-known conductors became partners of V. Ovchinnikov: V. Ashkenazy, R. Barshai, M. Bamert, D. Brett, A. Vedernikov, V. Weller, V. Gergiev, M. Gorenstein, I. Golovchin, A. Dmitriev, D .Conlon, J.Kreitzberg, A.Lazarev, D.Liss, R.Martynov, L.Pechek, V.Polyansky, V.Ponkin, G.Rozhdestvensky, G.Rinkevičius, E.Svetlanov, Y.Simonov, S.Skrovashevsky , V. Fedoseev, G. Solti, M. Shostakovich, M. Jansons, N. Jarvi.

The artist has an extensive solo repertoire and tours in the largest cities of Europe and the USA. Unforgettable concerts of V. Ovchinnikov were held in the best halls of the world: the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall in London, Hercules Hall and Gewandhaus in Germany and Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Camps-Elysees Theater and Pleyel Hall in Paris.

The pianist took part in famous international festivals held in different countries of the world: Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl and Van Clyburn in Fort Worth (USA); Edinburgh, Cheltenham and RAF Proms (UK); Schleswig-Holstein (Germany); Sintra (Portugal); Stresa (Italy); Singapore Festival (Singapore).

At various times, V. Ovchinnikov recorded works by Liszt, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Mussorgsky, Reger, Barber on CDs with such companies as EMI, Collins Classics, Russian Seasons, Shandos.

A significant place in the artist’s life belongs to pedagogical activity. For several years V. Ovchinnikov taught piano at the Royal Northern College of Music in the UK. Since 1996, he began his teaching career at the Moscow State Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky. Since 2001, Vladimir Ovchinnikov has also been teaching at Sakuyo University (Japan) as a visiting professor of piano; since 2005, he has been a professor at the Faculty of Arts of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov.

Soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic (1995). People’s Artist of Russia (2005). Member of the jury of many international competitions.

Source: Moscow Philharmonic website