Alexei Volodin is a Russian pianist, associate professor of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and laureate of international competitions. He was born on 17 June 1977 in Leningrad. He began studying music in Saint Petersburg at the age of nine, then continued his training in Moscow with Irina Chaklina and Tatiana Zelikman.
In 1999 he graduated with honors from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied in the class of Eliso Virsaladze. In 2001 he completed postgraduate studies and then undertook an internship at the International Piano Academy in Como, Italy, in 2001–2002.
Volodin gained international recognition through major competition successes. He won the Sydney International Piano Competition in 2001, received the audience prize at the London International Piano Competition in 2002, and won first prize at the 9th Géza Anda International Competition in Zurich in 2003, where he also received a prize for his performance of a Beethoven sonata.
Since 2003 he has appeared with leading orchestras of the world, including the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Orchestre National de France. He has collaborated with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Riccardo Chailly, Mikhail Pletnev, and David Zinman, and regularly appears at festivals including Verbier, Stars of the White Nights, Moscow Easter, and the Radio France Festival.
His orchestral repertoire includes more than thirty piano concertos ranging from the Baroque era to the 20th century, with works by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Prokofiev. Since 2008 he has served as an associate professor at the piano faculty of the Moscow Conservatory and has given master classes in Russia and abroad, including at the Verbier Academy in 2015.
Volodin has made numerous recordings, including albums devoted to Chopin, Schumann, Ravel, Scriabin, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich. Among them are Frederic Chopin — Piano Works (2009), Miroirs — Schumann, Ravel, Scriabin (2011), Beethoven: Sonatas op. 109 & op. 106 (2013), Sergei Rachmaninov — Piano Works (2013), The Sleeping Beauty: Russian Ballet Suites for Piano (2015), and several Mariinsky Label releases from 2023 and 2024. His Prokofiev recording with the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev was praised by Gramophone, while BBC Music Magazine highlighted his brilliance and clarity of technique, and The New York Times noted the refined expressiveness of his Bach playing.
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