Rustem Hayroudinoff (russian: link=no, Рустем Афзалович Хайрутдинов) is a Russian concert pianist.
Tatar
The Tatars ()Tatar in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different by nationality, he was born in
Kazan
Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering ...
,
Russian Federation
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(Republic of
Tatarstan
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). His father, Afzal Hayroudinoff is a Professor of Cello at the Kazan State Conservatory. His brother, Halida Hayrutdinova, is also an acclaimed concert pianist.
Rustem Hayroudinoff graduated from the
Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (russian: Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского, link=no) is a musical educational inst ...
, where he studied with Lev Naumov, and received his postgraduate degree (DipRAM) at the
Royal Academy of Music
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in London with
Christopher Elton
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Biography
Christopher Elton was born in Edinburgh and studied at t ...
. He was the first student from Soviet Union to come to study at the Royal Academy, where he is now a Professor of Piano.
His performances have been broadcast on major classical radio stations around the world and has appeared in the documentary “The Unknown
Shostakovich
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” alongside
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (russian: Влади́мир Дави́дович Ашкена́зи, ''Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazi''; born 6 July 1937) is an internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor. He i ...
,
Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (russian: Вале́рий Абиса́лович Ге́ргиев, ; os, Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери, Gergity Abisaly fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company di ...
and
Maxim Shostakovich
Maxim Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (russian: Макси́м Дми́триевич Шостако́вич; born 10 May 1938 in Leningrad) is a Soviet, Russian and American conductor and pianist. He is the second child of the composer Dmitri Shostako ...
. He has recorded CDs for various labels including Chandos, Decca and NAMI. His recordings of Shostakovich's Theatre Music and the Dvořák Piano Concerto with the
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Philharmonic were selected amongst the Best CDs of the Year by
BBC Music
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and the
Gramophone
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magazines respectively. His CD of the
Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of ...
Complete Preludes was selected by Classic FM Magazine as a part of the ‘four discs essential Rachmaninoff collection’, alongside the recordings of
Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein ( pl, Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish-American pianist.
and
André Previn
André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieve ...
, and his recording of the Complete Etudes-Tableaux by Rachmaninoff became the Instrumental Choice of the Month with the
BBC Music Magazine
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History
The first issue appeared in September 1992. BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the BBC was the original owner and publisher toge ...
and was nominated for the BBC Music Magazine Best Instrumental CD of the Year Award. It was also selected as the finest version of these pieces on
BBC Radio 3
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's Building a Library (programme presenter David Nice).
Discography
*Rachmaninov Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 (ONYX4181)
*Rachmaninov Complete Etudes-Tableaux (Chandos CHAN10391)
*Dvořák Piano Concerto (Chandos CHAN10309)
*Shostakovich Symphony No 4 arranged for 2 Pianos, with Colin Stone (Chandos CHAN10296)
*Rachmaninov Works for Cello and Piano, with Alexander Ivashkin (Chandos CHAN10095)
*Rachmaninov 24 Preludes (Chandos CHAN10107)
*Shostakovich Theatre Music (Chandos CHAN9907)
*An Equal Music-Music from the Novel (Decca 466945-2)
*Rachmaninov, Schubert, Strauss, Chopin (ConAnima)
See also
*
List of Tatars
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