PIANISTS 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Alexey Kudryashov, born in 1988 in Moscow, finished the Moscow State College of F. Chopin and is now a student in the Moscow State Conservatory of P. Tchaikovsky in the class of the National Artist of Russia, Alexey Nasedkin. Mr. Kudryashov is a winner of international and Russian competitions. He won First Prize in the International Competition of Pianists organized by the Russian Conservatory of A. Skriabin in Paris, France. He won First Prize in the 4 all-Russia youthful competition of V. Safonov in Pyatigorsk. He gives concerts in Russia and abroad (France, Germany, Austria, the USA, Italy, Poland, Japan) and is a participant of various festivals. He has reviews of his concerts printed in the magazines Musical Life, Music and Time, in newspapers The Musical Review (Russia), in the newspaper Russian Idea (France), in the Rheinische Post, the Wiesbadener Tagblatt (Germany) and the internet newspaper of Salzburg DrehPunktKultur (Austria). His playing has been characterized as “possessing a soft, melodious sound, without false pathos … harmonious and romantic,” Music and Time (Russia), January 2007. “ About technical skill at such level it is not necessary to speak, it is subordinated to the purposes of interpretation,” the Internet-Newspaper of Salzburg, DrehPunktKultur (Austria).