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• Honoured Artist of Russia (2022)
Ivan Rudin was born in Donetsk in 1982. In 2005 he graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (special piano class of Lev Naumov), subsequently completing his assistant traineeship there (special piano class of Sergei Dorensky), and later – from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (opera and symphony conducting class of Vladimir Altschuler).
Diploma recipient of the Moscow H. Neuhaus Festival for Young Pianists (1998) and prize-winner of the Oleg Kagan Moscow Competition for Chamber Ensembles (1999; 1st prize), the Andorra International Piano Competition (1999; 1st prize), the Theodor Leschetizky International Piano Competition in Taipei, Taiwan (2000; 3rd prize), the International Piano and Orchestra Competition Città di Cantù (Italy, 2007; 2nd prize), the International Piano Competition in Almaty (2008; 2nd prize) and the International Maria Callas Grand Prix competition in Athens (2010; 3rd prize). He was a scholarship holder of the Vladimir Krainev International Charity Foundation for Young Pianists.
Has appeared in many cities across Russia and other CIS countries, as well as in the USA, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Austria, France, Finland, Estonia, Israel, Turkey, Japan, China and Taiwan. Ivan Rudin’s concerts have taken place at the Mariinsky Theatre, the Moscow Conservatory, the Moscow Philharmonic Society, the St Petersburg Philharmonia, the Moscow International Performing Arts Centre, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Berlin Philharmonie, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Geneva’s Victoria Hall and other renowned venues.
Has collaborated with many musicians, among them Vladimir Krainev, Eduard Brunner, Margaret Price, Yuri Bashmet, Natalia Gutman, Alexander Lazarev, Alexander Rudin, Justus Frantz and the Ysaÿe Quartet. As a soloist he has appeared with the Symphony Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Moscow Soloists chamber ensemble, the Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra, orchestras in Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod, the Czech Philharmonic and other ensembles.
Has taken part in the Mariinsky International Piano Festival, the Prague Autumn International Music Festival, the Winter International Arts Festival in Sochi, Oleg Kagan memorial festivals in Kreuth, Germany, and Moscow, Justus Frantz’ Frantz & Friends festival on the island of Gran Canaria in Spain, and festivals in Braunschweig, Turin, Oxford and many other cities. Since 2001 he has headed the ArsLonga International Music Festival. Has collaborated with the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation and, from 2012 to 2018, served as General Producer of the Moscow Meets Friends festival.
In 2014, at the suggestion of Irina Schnittke, he was elected Co-Chairman of the German Alfred Schnittke Society in Hamburg and became one of the organisers of the festival Alfred Schnittke. Monologue, marking the eightieth anniversary of the composer’s birth.
Since 2017 Ivan Rudin has been Artistic Director of the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra. In 2019 he made his conducting debut at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Has subsequently also conducted the Mariinsky Orchestra.
From 2017 to 2021 he served as Artistic Director of the Golden Talents cultural and educational project, organised as part of the ART-OKNO cultural platform of the Art, Science and Sport Charity Foundation. Since 2022 Rudin has been General Director of the Moscow Concert Hall Zaryadye.
In the 2023–24 season he made his debut as a guest conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. He also served as the music director and conductor for semi-staged productions of Francesca da Rimini by Rachmaninoff, Le nozze di Figaro, Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Eugene Onegin, Iolanta, Boris Godunov and other works at the Moscow Concert Hall Zaryadye. Since 2024 the artist has been a permanent guest conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre.
From 2011 to 2013 he taught at Moscow’s Gnessin Russian Academy of Music as assistant to Professor Vladimir Tropp. During 2012–2015 Rudin studied with Professor Evgeni Koroliov at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, also teaching there as an associate professor. Has taught special piano and chamber ensemble classes at the Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music.
In 2020 Ivan Rudin received the Moscow Prize in Literature and Art for organising the Bach Marathon and Rachmaninoff Marathon concert cycles at the Moscow Concert Hall Zaryadye, and the symphonic performance The Master and Margarita at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory as part of the ArsLonga festival.
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