Vladimir Vsevolodovich Krainew

Vladimir Vsevolodowitsch Krainew ( Russian Владимир Всеволодович Крайнев ; born April 1, 1944 in Krasnoyarsk , † April 29, 2011 in Hanover ) was a Russian pianist and university professor.

Life

Vladimir Krainew received lessons at the Kharkov Music School and studied from 1962 at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory , among others with Heinrich Neuhaus . This was followed by postgraduate studies with his son Stanislaw Neuhaus with a diploma in 1969. Krainew won prizes at several international piano competitions, for example in Leeds in 1963 (2nd prize), Lisbon in 1964 (1st prize, together with Nelson Freire ) and in 1970 at the 9th Tchaikovsky -Competition in Moscow 1st prize (together with John Lill ). Later he himself often acted as a member of the jury for important music competitions (for example as chairman of the Tchaikovsky Music Competition in Moscow in 2002).

As a soloist he has given concerts in Europe, the USA and the Far East, also together with orchestras and chamber music partners such as Natalia Gutman , Gidon Kremer , Heinrich Schiff and the Borodin Quartet . Alfred Schnittke dedicated his Concerto for Piano and Strings to Krainew, which Krainew premiered in 1979. From 1992 Krainew taught at the Hanover University of Music and Drama , where he has held a professorship for piano since 1994.

Krainew initiated the “Vladimir Krainev invites” concert series at the Moscow Conservatory and in 1992 organized the first international competition for young pianists in Kharkov. In 1994 he founded the International Vladimir Krainev Society for the Promotion of Young Musicians.

Krainew was married to the figure skating coach Tatiana Anatolyevna Tarasova .

Web links

• Literature by and about Krajnev, Vladimir V. in the catalog of the German National Library
• HMTMH press release on Krainew's death, May 2, 2011