Alexei Volodin was born in 1977 in St. Petersburg, and began taking piano lessons there at the age of nine. A year later he moved to Moscow, where he studied first with I. Chaklina and later with T. Zelikman at the Gnessin Music School. In 1994 he enrolled in the master class of Professor Elisso Virsaladze at the Moscow Conservatoire. 2001/02 he studied at the Theo Lieven International Piano Foundation in Como. He has won several prizes at different international competitions. In 2003 he won the First Prize at the ninth edition of the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich, award that launched his international career.
Alexei Volodin has given recitals in Russia, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Australia and Switzerland. He has also performed with prestigious orchestras, such as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinskyi Theater Orchestra St. Petersburg , the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. He has worked with conductors like Christopher Hogwood, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Gerd Albrecht, Carlo Rizzi, Vladimir Fedoseyev, David Zinman, Eiji Oué and Valery Gergiev, among others. In May 2005, Alexei Volodin gave his debut recital at the Champs-Elysées Theater in Paris, where he achieved an extraordinary public and critics' success, being immediately re-invited. After his debut recital in Montpellier, he has been re-invited to be "Artist in residence" in the season 2006/07. Alexei Volodin has performed, with great success, in Barcelona, Madrid, Lyon, Rome, Heidelberg and Toulouse. Among his future engagements, are included his debut recitals at the Festival of La Rocque d'Anthéron, Konzerthaus Wien, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Bologna, Ferrara and Milano.
Other important engagements for the season 2006/07 include concerts with Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhaus-Orchester in Leipzig, with Ingo Metzmacher and the Orchestre National de France in Paris, with Paul Goodwin and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, with Tugan Sokhiev and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, with Zoltán Kocsis and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra in Budapest, a tour in Spain performing the Choral Fantasy by Beethoven, together with Leopold Hager, the Weimar Staatskapelle and Orfeón Donostiarra and his return to Barcelona, Paris and Rome and his first tour through China. His second recording was released this spring by the German Label "Live Classics".
