Igor Chetuev (Piano soloist)
Igor Tchetuev was born in Sevastopol (Ukraine) in 1980 and at the age of
fourteen he won the Grand Prix at the International Vladimir Krainev Young
Pianists’ Competition (Ukraine); he is currently perfecting his skills under
Maestro Krainev. In 1998, at the age of eighteen, he was awarded first
prize at the IX Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition,
where he was also voted “Audience Favourite”. In 2007, Igor Tchetuev
accompanied the illustrious bass Ferruccio Furlanetto at La Scala; he
has given three concerts with the Sinfonieorchester Kцln for three concerts
under Semyon Bychkov and he triumphed at the Festival
de la Roque d’Anthйron in a recital of twenty-four etudes
by Chopin.
In 2009 he was a special guest performer with the Orchestre National
de France at the Thйвtre des Champs Йlysйes, and July 2010
will see him appear there under Neeme Jдrvi with Tchaikovsky’s First Piano
Concerto. Other engagements for this season include: Tchaikovsky’s First Piano
Concerto with the Luxembourg Philharmonic under Gьnther Herbig; appearances with
the Orchestre National de Montpellier under Yaron Traub; the Moscow
Virtuoisi with Vladimir Spivakov and Maxim Vengerov; the Moscow State Symphony
Orchestra under Pavel Kogan on tour in Great Britain; the Symphony
Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine on tour in Switzerland;
the Orchestre Symphonique de Saint-Йtienne under Vladimir Vakoulsky and
the Euro-Asian Philharmonic in South Korea.
Igor Tchetuev regularly performs in France and in other European nations,
giving four recitals at Wigmore Hall, an appearance with Xavier Phillips at the
Colmar and the Montpellier Festivals and recitals with Augustin Dumay
in Paris. He has also collaborated with ensembles including
the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestras of Cologne,
Halle, Hanover, Tours and Brittany, West German Radio and North German Radio
Orchestras, the Moscow Virtuosi, the St Petersburg
Academic Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Poland, the Israel
Chamber Orchestra, the Bern Philharmonic, the Accademia di Santa
Cecilia Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dortmund
Orchester, the New Philharmonic of Japan, the New World Symphony and
the Orchestre National de Lille under such conductors as Valery
Gergiev, Semyon Bychkov, Vladimir Spivakov, Marc Elder, Rafael Frьhbeck de
Burgos, Alexander Dmitriev, Maxim Shostakovich, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Jean-Claude
Casadesus and Vladimir Sirenko.
Igor Tchetuev takes part in many international music festivals, among them
those in Colmar, the Yehudi Menuhin Festival, the Klavier-Festival
Ruhr, festivals in Braunschweig, Sintra and Schleswig-Holstein, the Zino
Francescatti Festival, festivals in Divonne-les-Bains, Hardelot, the Chopin
Festival in Paris, the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and the Festival
de Radio France and Montpellier. Igor Tchetuev frequently tours Europe, and
his recordings have received numerous awards and accolades. With the violinist
Andrey Bielov, he has recorded all the Prokofiev Sonatas for Violin and Piano
(Naxos). He has also recorded a recital of Romantic Etudes featuring
music by Schumann, Chopin, Liszt and Scriabin (Tri-M Classic). For Germany’s
Orfeo label, he recorded three Chopin Sonatas, which were highly praised by
critics, and the Russian branch of Caro Mitis released the disc Alfred
Schnittke’s Complete Piano Sonatas. This recording was awarded Germany’s
Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik and took tenth position in
France’s Classica-Rйpertoire listings; it also received a laudatory
write-up in Gramophone magazine. His most recent recordings are the
first three volumes of the Complete Beethoven Sonatas (Caro Mitis), which have
received lavish critical acclaim.
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