Wadym Cholodenko

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Wadym Tymurowytsch Cholodenko ( Ukrainian Вади́м Тиму́рович Холоде́нко , scientific transliteration Vadým Tymúrovyč Cholodénko ), (born September 4, 1986 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian pianist .

Wadym Cholodenko

life and work

The Ukrainian pianist Wadym Cholodenko is the first musician to emerge from his family. At the age of 13 he already appeared in concerts in the USA, China, Hungary and Croatia. In 1994 he enrolled at the Mykola Lysenko Music School in Kiev. There he studied piano with Natalia Grydneva and Borys Fedorov . In 2004, the young Cholodenko was awarded the Russian National Youth Prize Triumph . He moved to Moscow in 2005 to continue his studies with Vera Gornostajewa at the Moscow State Conservatory .

In 2004 Cholodenko won the Maria Callas piano competition in Athens. The Maria Callas Memorial Concert at the Herodes Atticus Theater in Athens was his debut with the Novaya Rossija (New Russia) orchestra under the direction of Yuri Bashmet . In 2010 Cholodenko won first prize at the Sendai piano competition (Sendai, Japan) and in 2011 first prize at the Schubert piano competition in Dortmund. In 2013 Cholodenko won the Van Cliburn Piano Competition . Cholodenko also appears as a chamber musician. In addition to the gold medal in the Cliburn competition, he also received the award for the best chamber music in this competition with César Franck's piano quintet. Cholodenko delighted the audience and the jury of the Cliburn competition with his impressive cadenzas for Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, which were specially written for his competition performance.

Cholodenko's talent for arranging music can also be heard in his collaboration with pianist Andrey Gugnin . Since 2007 he has worked with Gugnin, with whom he founded the piano duo iDuo , completed numerous tours in Europe and Russia and made a number of recordings.

Cholodenko has published numerous recordings with works by Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Sergej Rachmaninov, Medtner and various contemporary composers. In 2013 and 2014 he released two solo CDs with Harmonia Mundi with Igor Stravinsky's Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka and Franz Liszt's Transcendental Études . At Delos he published a CD with works by Rachmaninoff and with Medtner's Nachtwind Sonata . The Piano Concerto by Edvard Grieg, recorded in 2015 by Harmonia Mundi with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra under Miguel Harth-Bedoya , and the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Camille Saint-Saëns were very well received by the critics and awarded the Editor's Choice by the magazine Gramophone .

Cholodenko has performed in solo and orchestral concerts in Ukraine, Russia, USA, China, Japan, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Lithuania and Israel. He worked with many respected conductors such as Juri Baschmet , Vladimir Spivakov , Mark Gorenstein , Alexander Rudin , Dmitry Liss , Eugeny Bushkov and Alexander Sladkovskiy . In Japan, Cholodenko worked with the violinist Alena Baeva at both concerts and recordings .

Private

On March 17, 2016, Cholodenko's two young daughters were found dead at their home in Benbrook , Texas. His wife Sofia Tsygankova, who was already separated from Cholodenko at the time, was also found with stab wounds at the Benbrook property. The police pointed out that Cholodenko himself is not a suspect. On March 21, 2016, Tsygankova was arrested and charged with killing the two children. On July 16, 2018, a judge found Tsygankova not guilty or not responsible for a mental illness. However, he ordered her to be admitted to a mental hospital.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Heinz (nbcdfw.com): Pianist Not a Suspect in Children's Deaths, Wife's Stabbing; Woman Held for Mental Health Evaluation: Police. March 18, 2016, accessed August 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Deanna Boyd (star-telegram.com): Wife of Cliburn winner found not guilty by reason of insanity in daughters' deaths. July 16, 2018, accessed August 25, 2018 .
  3. ↑ gala.de: Star pianist Vadym Kholodenko: Sad certainty: This is how his daughters died. May 1, 2016, accessed August 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Cholodenko, Wadym
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kholodenko, Vadim Timurovic; Холоде́нко, Вади́м Тиму́рович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Ukrainian SSR