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Alexander Ivashkin [Александр Васильевич Ивашкин] is a Russian-born cellist, writer and conductor residing in the UK .

Biography

Alexander Ivashkin was born in Blagoveshchensk, far East of Russia into a family of renowned biologists. First three years of his life he spent in Mongolia, where his parents worked. He began his piano and cello studies at the age of five, at the Gnessin Music School for gifted children in Moscow. Ivashkin has graduated, with distinction, from Russian Academy of Music ( formerly the Gnessins Institute), obtaining two degrees : in cello performance and in historical musicology. He completed his doctorate studies at the State Institute of Arts Studies [Всесоюзный институт исскусствознания] in Moscow. In 1993 he was awarded DMus ( Higher Doctorate) there, for his book on Charles Ives. At the age of twenty, Ivashkin joined the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, soon becoming a solo cellist there. In 1978 he and the conductor Alexander Lazarev co-founded The Bolshoi Soloists - a pioneering group specializing in modern repertoire. In 1987 Ivashkin became a member of the Directors Board at the Bolshoi Theatre.

In 1990 Ivashkin moved to New Zealand to accept a post of cello/chamber music professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. He became a member of The Canterbury Trio there, together with Polish violinist Jan Tawroszewicz and Canadian pianist Diedre Irons. Ivashkin founded the Adam International Cello Festival/Competition in New Zealand ( 1995 - ), and the International Canterbury Chamber Music Festival ( 1996 - 1999).

Since 1999 Ivashkin lives in London. He is currently Professor of Music at the University of London and the director of the Centre for Russian Music in London. In 1999 he founded a series of Research and performance seminars and symposia at the Centre for Russian Music in London. He is the curator of Alfred Schnittke Archive at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is also artistic director of annual festivals in London, including The VTB Capital Prize for Young Cellists. As a soloist Ivashkin has played with the conductors such as Ricardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Jurowski, Rudolf Barshai, Alexander Lazarev, Janos Furst, Vladimir Verbitsky, Nicholas Braithwaite, Dmitri Liss, David In 2004 he presented a world premiere of the Brahms Cello Concerto in Hamburg (followed by performances in Moscow, St Petersburg and Auckland). A recording artist for the Chandos, BMG and Naxos labels, Ivashkin has recordings of the complete cello music by Rakhmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Roslavets, Tcherepnine, Schnittke and Kancheli to his credit. Ivashkin conducts masterclasses in Russia, USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Switzerland, China, Singapore, Ukraine, Estonia, Uzbekistan, Azerbajdzhan, Slovakia, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. He plays a Giuseppe (Joseph) Guarneri cello of 1710, courtesy of The Bridgewater Trust. He also plays electric cello, viola de gamba, sitar and piano. Alexander Ivashkin has published eighteen books, on Schnittke, Ives, Penderecki, Rostropovich and others, and more than 200 articles in Russia, Germany, Italy, the US, the UK and Japan. As a conductor, Alexander Ivashkin appears in Great Britain, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Armenia, and Azerbajan.


Discography

1. Russian Elegy. Original pieces for cello and piano written by Russian composers from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. CD. [booklet] Ode Records CD MANU 1426, Auckland , 1993. 2. Music for cello solo. World premiere recordings, Melodyia SUCD 10-005566, Moscow,1994 3. Alfred Schnittke. Four Hymns for cello and ensemble. [The Third Hymn is dedicated to A.Ivashkin.] Melodiya SUCD 00061 - Russia; Mobile Fidelity MFCD 915 - USA) World premiere recording. New releases, VoxBox , USA, 1994,1996. Diapason D’Or Award ( France) 4. Alfred Schnittke, Music for Cello and Piano. World premiere recordings.With Tamas Vesmas.Auckland, Ode Records,1995. CD MANU 1480. 5. Sergei Prokofiev. Complete Music for Cello and Piano.With Tamas Vesmas.Auckland, Ode Records,1996. CD MANU 1414 6. Bohiuslav Martinu. Chamber Music. Naxos,8.553916 , Frankfurt-Hong-Kong, 1996. 7. Alexander Gretchaninov. Cello Concerto, op .8.Chandos, England, 1997 CHAN 9559. World premiere recording. 8. Dmitri Shostakovich. Cello Concertos Nos.1-2. BMG/Ode, 1997, MANU 1542. 9. Alfred Schnittke. Complete Music for Cello and Piano, with Irina Schnittke, piano.Chandos, England , 1998 , CHAN 9705.World premiere recording. 'CD of the month', BBC Music Magazine, 1998. 10. Alfred Schnittke. Cello Concerto No.2, with Russian State SO, Chandos, CHAN 9722 England,1999 11. Tcherepnin Complete Music for Cello and Piano (with Geoofrey Tozer,piano). Chandos, CHAN 9770, 1999. 12. Unknown Shostakovich: Schumann - Shostakovich .Cello Concerto, op.129/126; Tishchenko-Shostakovich. Cello Concerto No.1. with Russian State SO. Chandos, CHAN 9792 England.World premiere recording. 13. Schubert. String Quintet in C major D956, Shostakovich.Piano Trio No 2. With Isabelle van Keulen, Mark Lubotsky, Goldner Quartet, Boris Berman. ABC Classics 465 841 -2, 2000. 14. Under the Southern Cross. New music for solo cello from Australia and New Zealand. BMG,1999. Recording Industry Award, 1999. 15. Schnittke - Concerto No. 1 (with Russian State Symphony Orchestra). Recording and booklet London, Best CD in last 5 years - 'Fanfare', USA. Chandos CHAN 9852, 2000 (CD). 16. Schnittke - Chamber Music . Alexander Ivashkin, Mark Lubotsky, Irina Schnittke, Theodore Kuchar. Hong-Kong-London, Naxos 8-554728, 2000 (CD).Best CD of the year, BBC Music Magazine, December 2001. 17. Unknown Prokofiev -Concerto for cello &orchestra op.58, Concertino op 132, orchestrated by V.Blok, Cadenza by A.Schnittke, with Russian State SO Chandos,CHAN 9890 , 2001. World premiere recording and booklet. The Strad Selection, July 2001. 18. Nikolai Roslavets . Complete Music for cello &piano. Alexander Ivashkin, Tatyana Lazareva. Chandos, CHAN 9881, 2001. World premiere recording and booklet. 'CD of the month', BBC Music Magazine, April. 2001. 19. Gubaidulina and Cello. Chandos, CHAN 9958. 2001. World premiere recording and booklet. 20. Nikolai Korndorf . Passacaglia for cello solo ( dedicated to Alexander Ivashkin), String Trio, Piano Trio (with Patricia Kopachinskaya, Daniel Raiskin, Ivan Sokolov). Megadisc 7817 (Belgium), World premiere recording 21. Dmitry Smirnov. Sonata for cello and piano, 'Postlude' for cello solo( dedicated to AI), Piano Trio (with Patricia Kopachinskaya, Ivan Sokolov). Magedisc 7818 (Belgium), 2001. World premiere recording 22. Prokofiev - Sinfonia-Concertante, op. 125 (+ Symphony No 2). With Russian State SO,. Chandos, CHAN 9989, England, 2002 . 23. Myaskovsky.. Cello Concerto (+ Symphony No 27). With Russian State SO,. Chandos, CHAN 10025, England, 2002 . 24. Prokofiev. Complete Cello/piano Music (with T.Lazareva). Chandos, CHAN 10045, England, 2003. 25. Rakhmaninoiv. Complete Cello/piano Music. ( with R. Hayroudinoff), Chandos, England, CHAN 10095, 2004. 26. Schnittke. Concerto Grosso No 2 (with T, Grindenko, vn, Russian State SO, under V. Poliansky). Chandos, England, CHAN 10180, 2004. 27. Kancheli. Simi; Mourned by the wind , for cello and orchestra. ‘Chandos’, CHAN 10297. England, 2005 28. Shostakovich. Cello Concertos, Nos 1 and 2. With Russian State SO. Brilliant Classics 7620, Holland, 2006 29. Schnittke . Concerto for Three, Dialogue. ‘Chandos’ ( in preparation). 30. Alexander Ivashkin plays Schnittke ( Double CD). Complete Cello Concertos and Sonatas. Chandos, England, CHAN 241-39, 2007. Best Re-issue of the month - Gramophone 31. Due Celli ( Music by Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Boccherini, Boismortier, Mozart, and Schnittke) with Natalia Pavlutskaya. . Alma Classics 5031 , New Zealand/Australia, 2007. 32. Hommage a Anna Akhmatova. ( includes Beethoven Sonata op 102, No 1; Bach – Solo cello Suite No 2, Kancheli ‘ Nach dem Weinen’ ( World premiere recording) , Shostakovich – Cello Concerto No 2) . Alma Classics 5022, New Zealand/Australia, 2008. 33. Alexander Ivashkin plays Prokofiev ( Double CD). Complete Cello Concertos and Sonatas. Chandos, England, CHAN 241-41, 2008. 34. Pacific Voyage. With Ora Barlow and Kim Halliday. Alma Classics 5028, New Zealand/Australia, 2009. 35. Edison Denisov. The Blue Notebook. Moscow: Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, 2009. SMC CD 0106 36. Alfred Schnittke: Discoveries. Yellow Sound, Dialogue for cello and instrumental ensemble, Variations for String Quartet. Alexander Ivashkin, cello/voice. London: Toccata Classics, 2010. TOCC 0091

Publications

Selected books: Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Music and Documents . Edited by Alexander Ivashkin and Andrew Kirkman. Farnham: Ashgate (in progress) Schnittke Studies . Edited by Alexander Ivashkin. Bloomington-Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (in progress). Rostropovich. Tokyo: Shunjusha Publishing Company, 2007. 280 pp. Alfred Schnittke: Stat'I o muzyke [Articles on music] . Edited by Alexander Ivashkin. Moscow: Compozitor, 2003. 407 pp. A Schnittke Reader. Bloomington /Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. 352pp. Rostrospective (On the Life and Achievement of Mstislav Rostropovich). Frankfurt-Schweinfurth: Reimund Maier Verlag,1997 . 142 pp. Alfred Schnittke. London: Phaidon Press, 1996, 240 pp. Besedy s Alfredom Schnittke [Conversations with Alfred Schnittke ]. Moscow: The Culture Publishers, 1994. 304pp. Second, revised edition: Moscow: Klassica-XXI, 2003, 316pp. German Edition: Munich: 1999. Japanese Edition: Tokyo, 2002. Charles Ives i muzyka XX vieka [Charles Ives and the Twentieth-century music]. Monograph. Moscow, Soviet Composer, 1991. 464pp. Krzysztof Penderecki. Moscow: Soviet Composer, 1983. 126pp. Selected articles

Symbols, Metaphors and Irrationalities in Twentieth-Century Music. Cataño, Rafael Jiménez and Yarza, Ignacio ( Ed.). Mimesi, Verità e Fiction. Roma: Edusc, 2009: 69 –87. Cooling the volcano: Prokofiev’s Cello Concerto Op. 58 and ‘Symphony-Concerto’ Op. 125 . Three Oranges, Journal of the Serge Prokofiev Foundation, No. 18 (November 2009), 7-14. Podsolnukh [Sunflower]. Rostropovich in memoriam. Muzykal’naya Academia. Moscow , 2007/3: 1 – 16. Short English version: Radius Solis. Three Oranges, Journal of the Serge Prokofiev Foundation, No. 14 (November 2007), 25 – 27. Dvoinaya pererabotka otkhodov v sovetskoi muzyke [Double recycling in Soviet music]. Iskusstvo XX veka : elite i massy [ The twentieth-century Art: Elite and Masses]. Nizhny Novgorod: The Glinka Conservatoire Press, 2005: 12- 18. Logic of Absurdity or Taste of Freedom? Alexander Knaifel and his opera 'Alice in Wonderland'. Tempo, 219 , 2002: 34-36 Alfred Schnittke. New Grove Dictionary. London: Macmillan. 2001 ( with Ivan Moody) ‘…und wenn es mir den Hals bricht’. Zum Gedenken an Alfred Schnittke. MusikTexte. Heft 78, March 1999: 27- 31. Shostakovich and Schnittke: the erosion of symphonic syntax. D.Fanning (ed.) Shostakovich Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995: 252-268. The paradox of Russian Non-Liberty. The Musical Quarterly, vol.76, no.4, 1992: 543-556 Die Musik als grosse Buhne. Kagel . . .1991. Köln: DuMont Buchverlag, 1991:110-119 Charles Ives : Otkrytie Ameriki. Zapadnoye Iskusstvo. XX vek. [ Charles Ives: discovery of the America. In Western Art. XX Century]. Moscow: Nauka, 1991: 222-247 Sowietische Musik. Von der Struktur zum Symbol. Sowietische Musik im Licht der Perestroika. Berlin: Laaber, 1990:109-117 Post-October Soviet art: canon and symbol. The Musical Quarterly, vol.74, no. 2,1990: 350 - 368 Music Scores Edited Sergei Rakhmaninov. Melody on a Theme for cello and piano. First publication. Edited and prefaced by Alexander Ivashkin and Rustem Hayroudinoff. Hamburg: Hans Sikorski Musikverlage, 2010 (in preparation). Alfred Schnittke . Collected Works. Critical Edition in sixty three volumes. Compiled and prefaced by Alexander Ivashkin. St.Petersburg: Compozitor, 2007 - . Alexander Ivashkin, Editor-in-chief (in progress). Alexander Grechaninov. Cello Concerto ( 1895). Performance edition from the manuscript. Moscow: State Symphony Capella, 1998 Frangiz Ali-Zade. Habil-Sayahy for cello and piano. Edited and prefaced by Alexander Ivashkin. Hamburg, Hans Sikorski Internationale Musikverlage, 1991. Twentieth-century American piano music. Compiled, prefaced and commented by Alexander Ivashkin. Moscow: Muzika State Publishers, 1991. Charles Ives. Works for Orchestra. Critical Edition. Compiled, prefaced and commented by Alexander Ivashkin. Kiev, 'Muzychna Ukraina', 1990.

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