Alexander Rudin

Alexander Rudin is a renowned cello player, as well as a conductor performing with symphony and chamber orchestras. He is a professor of the Moscow State Conservatory and researches ancient scores. As an author, he edited scores of chamber music and wrote original musical cycles.

Alexander Rudin's repertoire includes cello music of four centuries, both popular ones and the ones never performed before, such as “Theme with variations” for cello and orchestra by Mikhail Vielgorsky, Cello Concertos by Anton Kraft, Jean Balthasar Triklir, C. Ph. E. Bach, the first Cello Concerto by Antonín Dvořák, and the author editions of Tchaikovsky's cello pieces – “Roccoco variations” and “Pezzo Capriccioso”. The significant part of his repertoire is devoted to music of contemporary composers, such as Valentin Silvestrov, Vyacheslav Artyomov, Andrei Iwanowitsch Golowin, or Arvo Pärt. He was the first to perform many compositions for cello by Dmitry Kabalevsky and Edison Denisov.

Many outstanding musicians of our time are his partners, such as Mikhail Pletnev, Eliso Virsaladze, Nikolai Lugansky, Alexei Lubimov, Natalia Gutman, Anthony Marwood, conductors Sir Roger Norrington, Michail Pletnev, Eri Klas, Vladimir Fedoseev, Saulius Sondeckis, Dmitry Kitaenko, and many more.

Alexander Rudin graduated from the Gnesins State Musical Pedagogical Institute (Russian Music Academy) in 1983. He studied cello under Lev Evgraphov and piano under Yury Ponizovkin. In 1989, he finished his studies of conducting with Dmitry Kitaenko in the Moscow State Conservatory. While still being a student he became a laureate of international contests such as J. S. Bach in Leipzig (1976), Gaspar Cassado in Florence (1979), P. I. Tchaikovsky in Moscow (1978, 1982). Nowadays, Alexander Rudin performs with ensembles and participates in international festivals around the world.

Alexander Rudin is Russian Federation People’s Artist, laureate of the State prize, laureate of the Moscow government prize, and a Moscow Conservatory professor. As of 1988, Alexander Rudin is the art director and principal conductor of Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra.

As of June 2023.