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Alexander Ivashkin (), (17 August 1948 – 31 January 2014) was a Russian cellist, writer, academic and conductor. Ivashkin studied at the Gnessin Institute and the Moscow Conservatory, where his teachers included Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Valery Polyansky. He also played electric cello, viola da gamba, sitar and piano. Ivashkin became co-principal cellist of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. In 1978, he founded the Bolshoi Soloists, a new chamber orchestra. From 1995, Ivashkin founded the ADAM International Cello Competition and Festival.〔 He was also artistic director of annual festivals in London, including The VTB Capital Prize for Young Cellists. In 1999 he founded a series of research and performance seminars/symposia and international concert series at the Centre for Russian Music. He was the curator of Alfred Schnittke Archive at Goldsmiths and the editor-in-chief of the ongoing Schnittke Collected Works Critical edition in 63 volumes. Ivashkin published twenty books, on Schnittke, Ives, Penderecki, Rostropovich and others, and more than 200 articles in Russia, Germany, Italy, the US, the UK and Japan. Ivashkin was the first performer and dedicatee of many contemporary compositions for cello, by such composers as Alfred Schnittke. He actively collaborated with composers such as John Cage, George Crumb, Mauricio Kagel, Krzysztof Penderecki, Peter Sculthorpe, Brett Dean, Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Arvo Pärt, Rodion Shchedrin, Nikolai Korndorf, Dmitri Smirnov, Elena Firsova, Alexander Raskatov, Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Augusta Read Thomas, James MacMillan, Lyell Cresswell, Roger Redgate, Gabriel Prokofiev and Gillian Whitehead. Ivashkin made commercial recordings for such labels as Chandos, BMG and Naxos. These issues include the complete cello music by Rakhmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Roslavets, Tcherepnine, Gubaidulina, Schnittke and Kancheli to his credit. In 1969, Ivashkin married fellow musician Natalia Pavlutskaya, who survives her husband. ==Discography== # "Russian Elegy". Original pieces for cello and piano written by Russian composers from the 18th to the 20th century. With Ingripd Wahlberg, piano. Ode Records MANU 1426, 1993. # "Music for cello solo". ''World premiere recordings''. Melodyia SUCD 10-005566, 1994. # "Alfred Schnittke. Four Hymns for cello and ensemble". With the Bolshoi Soloists. (Third Hymn is dedicated to A.Ivashkin. ) Melodiya SUCD 00061 – Russia; Mobile Fidelity MFCD 915 – US). ''World premiere recordi''ng. New releases: VoxBox, US, 1994,1996. Diapason D’Or Award ( France) # "Alfred Schnittke, Music for Cello and Piano". World premiere recordings. With Tamas Vesmas. Ode Records MANU 1480, 1995. # "Sergei Prokofiev. Complete Music for Cello and Piano". With Tamas Vesmas. Ode Records MANU 1414, 1996. # "Bohiuslav Martinu. Chamber Music". Naxos, 8.553916, 1996. # "Alexander Gretchaninov. Cello Concerto, op. 8". ''World premiere recording.'' Chandos CHAN 9559, 1997. # "Dmitri Shostakovich. Cello Concertos Nos.1–2". BMG/Ode Records MANU 1542, 1997. # "Alfred Schnittke. Complete Music for Cello and Piano". With Irina Schnittke, piano.'' World premiere recording''. Chandos, CHAN 9705, 1998. CD of the month', BBC Music Magazine, 1998.'' # "Alfred Schnittke. Cello Concerto No.2". With Russian State SO, Chandos CHAN 9722,1999 # "Alexander Tcherepnin. Complete Music 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Ivashkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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