Fedor Rudin
/ violin
The French-Russian violinist Fedor Rudin is quickly establishing himself as one of the most unique and polyvalent concert artists of today’s generation.
He is prizewinner of prestigious competitions such as Premio Paganini in Genoa and George Enescu in Bucharest. In 2019 he was awarded the Ivry Gitlis Prize in Paris. His newest album Reflets was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards.
In the 2020-2021 season, Fedor Rudin will make his debut with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsches Kammerorchester in the Berliner Philharmonie.
Earlier solo debuts have already taken the violinist to prestigious concert halls like Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium in New York, Berlin Konzerthaus, Paris Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein & Tonhalle Zurich.
A devoted chamber musician, Fedor is a founding member of Fratres Trio, hailed as “a new generation of classical music” by the press for their unusual combination of violin, saxophone and piano. The ensemble is a prizewinner of the Illzach international chamber music compe tition in Mulhouse and has received the Supersonic Award by Pizzicato Magazine for their CD Couleurs d’un Rêve.
As a concertmaster of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic from 2019 to 2021. Passionate of operatic and symphonic repertoire as well, Fedor Rudin regularly works as a conductor. Rudin is now finishing his conducting diploma in the class of Simeon Pironkoff at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Born in Moscow in 1992 and raised in Paris, Fedor’s grandfather was the famous Russian avant-garde composer Edison Denisov.
Fedor plays the “ex-Benecke” violin by Antonio Stradivari, made in Cremona in 1694, generously loaned to him by the Austrian National Bank.