Concert at the Prague Autumn International Music Festival also broadcast live on radio
On Sunday 14th September 2008 the Radio Symphony Orchestra will perform Sergei Prokofiev's Russian Overture, Max Bruch's G Major Concerto and Borodin's 2nd Symphony in B minor. The soloist will be violinist Maxim Fedotov, Vladimír Válek will conduct.
A National Artist of Russia, soloist with the State Philharmonic Society in Moscow, Maxim Fedotov was born in Leningrad, now St Petersburg, into the family of an acknowledged ballet conductor working at the Marinsky Theatre.
Wins at prestige competitions including the Tchaikovsky and the famous competition in Tokyo very soon op.ened the doors to famous concert halls like London's Barbican Centre, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Vienna Musikverein, the Suntory Hall in Tokyo and more of the great concert halls in America, Mexico, Australia and South Korea. He is also intensively devoted to chamber music: in 1992 pianist Galina Petrova became his artistic partner - and later his partner in life.
Amongst all these activities Fedotov is also a teacher: first this was at the Moscow State Conservatoire, then in 2003 he became Professor and head of the strings department at the Russian Academy of Music. Since 2002 he has also held the position of President of the Prizewinners' Association of the International Tchaikovsky Competition.
Here in Prague we heard him at the Prague Autumn festival three years ago, when he performed Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D Major accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of Russia, and stunned both public and critics.
