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Igor TCHETUEV

« Tchetuev brought a genuine thrill – a sound that Neuhaus, Sofronitsky and Richter would have recognised. That indefinable ‘Russian’ quality in the mid-range, the crystalline treble and the defined bass, all combined with a very strong interpretative personality. In a word – glorious! » www.classicalsource.com, Rob Pennock Wigmore Hall, London,Tuesday, May 26, 2009

« Beaming like a laser, confident yet unaggressive, shining, colourful, structured without being rigid, the work of Igor Tchetuev makes every piece’s vital force emerge » Le Monde, Alain Lompech

« They were then joined by the 26-year-old pianist Igor Tchetuev for Rachmaninov Third Concerto which received a magnificent performance which dug deep beneath the surface to reveal aspects of the composer’s genius rarely heard in this masterpiece. Igor Tchetuev is a virtuoso to rank with the best. He did not merely treat the work as a vehicle for display; this was an intensely musical, engrossing and impressive reading throughout… »

MUSICAL OPINION-January-February 2007- Robert Matthew-Walker St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra at Cadogan Hall : Rachmaninov 3rd piano concerto

Igor Tchetuev was born in Sebastopol (Ukraine) in 1980 and won at the age of 14 the Grand Prix of the International Vladimir Krainev Young Pianists Competition (Ukraine); he currently works with Maestro Krainev.
In 1998, at age 18, he was the First Prize Laureate of the Ninth Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, and was also voted "Audience Favourite".

2009/10/11 Igor Tchetuev is the guest of Orchestre National de France at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées (July 2010, Tchaikovsky 1 / /Neeme Järvi), Mariinsky Theatre accompanying Ferruccio Furlanetto, Luxembourg Philharmonic (Tchaikovsky 1 / Günter Herbig), Orchestre National de Lille (Prokofiev 3 / Paul Mann), Orchestre National de Montpellier (Prokofiev 1 / Yaron Traub), Moscow Virtuosi (Mozart Concerto “Jeunehomme” / Vladimir Spivakov and Maxim Vengerov), Moscow State Symphony Orchestra (Rachmaninov 2 & Rhapsody / Pavel Kogan) on tour in Great Britain, Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine on tour in Switzerland, Orchestre Symphonique de Saint Etienne (Vladimir Vakoulsky), in Korea of Euro-Asian Philharmonic. He gives numerous recitals in France and Europe amongst which, his fourth recital in Wigmore Hall, a recital at the Festival de Colmar and the Montpellier Festival and four recitals with Augustin Dumay in Paris area. He is the guest of Festival de Menton, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Chopin Festival Paris, Colmar Festival, Pontlevoy Festival, Lisztomania Festival, Nohant Festival, and plays at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Concertgebouw de Doelen Rotterdam, etc…

2007/08/09 Igor Tchetuev is accompanied the illustrious Bass Ferruccio Furlanetto at the Scala di Milano. He was the guest of the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln (M°Bychkov) for three concerts and got a triumph at the Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron in an evening recital (Chopin 24 Etudes). Amongst other concerts, he performed in Israel with the Israel Camerata for four concerts (Liszt & Mozart).

Igor Tchetuev has also recently performed as piano soloist with the Mariinsky Orchestra, WDR Orchestra Köln, Halle Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, St Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, Polish National Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, Bern Philharmonic, NDR Hanover, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Orchestre de Bretagne, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Dortmund Orchester, New Japan Philharmonic, Miami New World Symphony, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre de Tours etc… under such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Semyon Bychkov, Vladimir Spivakov, Marc Elder, Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, Alexander Dmitriev, M. Shostakovtich, Evgueni Svetlanov, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Vladimir Sirenko, and so on…

Each year Tchetuev gives a number of appearances in select events for instance the Colmar International Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Klavierfestival Ruhr, the Braunschweig Festival, Sintra Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Zino Francescatti Festival, Divonne, Hardelot, Paris (Louvre Auritorium), Festival Chopin Paris, Accademia Philharmonica Romana, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier not to mention the festival of La Roque d’Anthéron, where he appeared during the last two seasons, and was re-invited for an evening acclaimed recital (Chopin 24 Etudes).

Igor Tchetuev makes then regular recital tours in Europe and his recordings have received numerous awards and accolades: he recorded with the violinist Andrei Bielov all Prokofiev Sonatas for violin and piano for Naxos label. He also recorded a recital of “Romantic Etudes” with Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin, with Tri-M Classic of Japan, the Three Chopin Sonatas for Orfeo in Germany which was applauded by critics (Le Monde de la Musique, Classica...), “Alfred Schnittke: Complete Piano Sonatas” (Caro Mitis, Russia) (Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik in Germany, R10 in Classica-Repertoire in France and a magnificent article in Gramophone Magazine) and his last recordings are the first three volumes of his Complete Beethoven Sonatas (Caro Mitis, Russia) with fabulous press critics.

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