Alexei Volodin

Acclaimed for his highly sensitive touch and technical brilliance, Alexei Volodin is in demand by orchestras at the highest level. He possesses an extraordinarily diverse repertoire from Beethoven and Brahms through Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev to Scriabin and Shchedrin and Medtner.
Highlights of the 2023/24 season include performances with Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, The Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, among others.

Previous seasons have included performances with Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, NCPA Orchestra China, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, The Mariinsky Orchestra, and St Petersburg Philharmonic. He has worked with conductors like Semyon Bychkov, Stanislav Kochanovsky, and Robert Trevino.
Volodin regularly appears in recital in venues such as Barcelona’s Palau de la Música, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Philharmonie Paris, and Alte Oper Frankfurt. This season he will return at Wiener Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall, Zentrum Paul Klee, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Frankfurter Hof, Casa da Música in Porto, and at Gran Teatro Nacional del Perú in Lima, among others.
As active chamber musician, he has a long-standing collaboration with many artists including Igor Levit and Sol Gabetta. Previous chamber partners include Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, Mischa Maisky, Cuarteto Casals, and Quartetto di Cremona. This season he performs with artists such as István Várdai and Eldbjørg Hemsing for trio recitals and regularly works with Olga Pashchenko, Claire Huangci, and his wife Edith Peña for piano duo recitals.

He recorded a solo album of Schumann, Ravel and Scriabin, and his earlier Chopin disc won a »Choc de Classica« and was awarded five stars by Diapason. A regular artist at festivals, Volodin has performed at Festival Les nuits du Château de la Moutte, Bad Kissingen Sommer Festival, the White Nights Festival in St Petersburg, and the Moscow Easter Festival.

Born in 1977 in Leningrad, Volodin studied at the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music in Moscow and later with Eliso Virsaladze at the Moscow Conservatoire. In 2001, he continued his studies at the International Piano Academy Lake Como and gained international recognition following his victory at the »Concours Géza Anda« in Zurich in 2003.