Maxim Fedotov
Artistic Director & Chief Conductor
“A feeling of tempo and proportions, unerring dramatic flair distinguish Fedotov as a conductor. He possesses a wonderful skill to breathe new life into far-famed compositions” (Moskovskie novosti, 12-18. 10. 2007)
Maxim Fedotov – Russian violinist and conductor, laureate and prize-winner of the major international violinists’ contests (named after P. Tchaikovsky, N. Paganini, international contest in Tokyo), People’s Artist of Russia, Moscow City Government Prize Laureate, professor of the Moscow Conservatory, the head of the department of violin and viola at the Russian Academy of Music. The European press calls the violinist “Russian Paganini”.
The musician performed at the most world-famous concert halls: Barbican Hall (London), Symphony Hall (Birmingham), concert hall “Finland” in Helsinki, Konzerthaus (Berlin), Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Gastieg (Munich), “Alte Oper” (Frankfurt am Main), Auditorium (Madrid), Megaro (Athens), «Musikverein» (Vienna), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Symphony Hall (Osaka), Mozarteum (Salzburg), Verdi Concert Hall (Milan), at the halls of the Cologne Philharmonic, the Vienna State Opera, the Bolshoy and the Mariinsky Theatres, etc. He gave more than fifty solo and symphony concerts at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory alone in the latest ten years. He played with many major orchestras, cooperated with celebrated conductors. Concerts and records in a duet with pianist Galina Petrova are significant parts of his creative work.
Maxim Fedotov is the first violinist who gave the solo concert playing two violins of N. Paganini – Gvarnery del Dzhezu and J. B. Vuillaume (Saint Petersburg, 2003). Among the musician’s records are “24 caprices” by Paganini (“DML-classics”) and a series of disks “All compositions by Bruch for violin and orchestra” (“Naxos”).
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Nowadays M. Fedotov combines symphonic conductor and concert violinist activities. Creative and intellectual potential, vast concert experience, example of his father – outstanding St. Petersburg director Victor Fedotov, basics of Petersburg opera-symphony school (class of People's Artist of the USSR V. Chernushenko) - all these factors contributed to it.
Nowadays M. Fedotov combines symphonic conductor and concert violinist activities. Creative and intellectual potential, vast concert experience, example of his father – outstanding St. Petersburg director Victor Fedotov, basics of Petersburg opera-symphony school (class of People's Artist of the USSR V. Chernushenko) - all these factors contributed to it.
Since 2003 Maxim Fedotov was the chief conductor of the Russian Symphony Orchestra. More than once he conducted the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra of Bratislava, CRR Symphony Orchestra (Istanbul), St. Petersburg Capella Academic Symphony Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra (Seoul), Eurasian Symphony Orchestra (Astana), “Musica Viva”, Chamber Orchestra of the Vatican City, etc.
Illustrious soloists such as N. Petrov, D. Matsuev, Y. Rozum, A. Knyazev, K. Rodin, P. Villegas, D. Illarionov, H. Gerzmava, V. Grigolo, Fr. Provinzionato , S. Roldugin, I. Berett, V. Matorin, D. Shapovalov, A. Gindin play with Fedotov as a conductor.
“An excellent conductor of the European level…One may say confidently that a supernova named Maxim Fedotov appeared at the conductor Olympus!” (Moskovskaya Pravda, 10.10.2007).
Since 2006 Maxim Fedotov is artistic director and chief conductor of the Moscow City Symphony Orchestra “Russian Philharmonic” with which he collaborated more than ten years. During 4 seasons a number of the significant programs both for the orchestra and for the conductor were held. Among them are The Requiem by Verdi, Carmina Burana by Orff, monographic concertos by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven (including the Ninth Symphony) , Shostakovich, recitals of Aida by Verdi and Die Fledermaus by Strauss, etc.
Since 2006 Maxim Fedotov is artistic director and chief conductor of the Moscow City Symphony Orchestra “Russian Philharmonic” with which he collaborated more than ten years. During 4 seasons a number of the significant programs both for the orchestra and for the conductor were held. Among them are The Requiem by Verdi, Carmina Burana by Orff, monographic concertos by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven (including the Ninth Symphony) , Shostakovich, recitals of Aida by Verdi and Die Fledermaus by Strauss, etc.
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