Fedor Rudinviolin
French-Russian violinist and conductor Fedor Rudin is quickly establishing himself as one of the most unique and versatile concert artists of today’s generation. Born in Moscow in 1992, Fedor, as the grandson of the famous Russian avant-garde composer Edison Denisov, grew up in Paris and later studied violin in Cologne, Salzburg and Graz with Zakhar Bron, Pierre Amoyal and Boris Kuschnir. He completed his conducting studies with Simeon Pironkoff and Vladimir Kiradjiev in Vienna in 2021.
Highlights of the 2021/22 season include Rudin’s debuts with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, under the baton of Petr Popelka, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with Maestro Kirill Karabits, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, as well as debuts with the Prague Chamber Orchestra and the German Chamber Orchestra at the Berlin Philharmonie. Together with his regular duo partner, the pianist Boris Kusnezow, he will undertake a recital tour in Japan, while chamber music projects take him to the Tallinn Chamber Music Festival, Musikfest Kassel, Cyprus and Konzertverein Ingolstadt. As a conductor, Rudin will lead the Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Albanian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, the Kosovo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Vienna Mozart Orchestra on a tour in Switzerland and Greece.
Previous solo debuts have taken Fedor Rudin to many of the world’s most revered concert halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York, Berlin Konzerthaus, Paris Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein and Tonhalle Zurich. He has appeared with renowned orchestras, such as Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB), Sinfonieorchester Basel, Orchestre de chambre de Paris and Münchener Kammerorchester, while regularly collaborating with conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Darrell Ang, Lorenzo Viotti and Christoph Poppen. As a conductor, Rudin has led the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Petrobras Symphony Orchestra (Rio de Janeiro), Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble and Szczecin Opera Orchestra amongst many others.
Fedor Rudin is a frequent guest at some of the most prestigious music festivals in the world, including the Salzburg Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. As concertmaster of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic, he has collaborated with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta and Andris Nelsons.
Fedor Rudin plays a violin by Lorenzo Storioni (Cremona, 1779) from the German Musical Instrument Fund on a generous loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben in Hamburg.