Fedor Rudin

At age 30, he is now in a phase of big debuts: he has had solo performances in Prague, Paris and Montreal, at the Berlin Philharmonic, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and Carnegie Hall in New York; he was a guest at the Salzburg Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival; he has played with orchestras such as the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and the SWR Symphony Orchestra, and collaborated with conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Kirill Karabits, Tomáš Netopil, Petr Popelka and Lorenzo Viotti. He enjoys playing classics such as Beethoven’s violin concerto – the BBC broadcast his debut of this piece with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – as well as lesser-known important works such as Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 2 or the avant-garde repertoire of Edison Denisov.

Fedor Rudin is a passionate chamber musician who collaborates with prestigious partners such as the pianists Boris Kusnezow, Igor Levit, Julien Libeer and Florian Noack, the cellists Julia Hagen, Ivan Karizna and Bruno Philippe, the Pavel Haas Quartet and the Signum saxophone quartet. Since 2022, he has been serving as the artistic director of the Rencontres Musicales de Chaon chamber music festival in France. And he is equally as happy to take over the direction of chamber orchestras for the evening. But one thing that sets him apart from his colleagues who practise the ‘play & conduct’ principle is that he has earned a degree in conducting (he trained under Simeon Pironkoff and Vladimir Kiradjiev at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna). He has assisted Teodor Currentzis and Philippe Jordan, conducted orchestras including the Jena Philharmonic and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and, in 2022, directed his first opera production, Bernstein’s West Side Story, in Bialystok. In addition, since October 2023, he has been working as a professor in Orchestral Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. As a concert artist, however, he is currently focused on playing the violin.