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ALEXANDER BONDURYANSKY

was born in 1945 and graduated from Chișinău (Kishnoy) Conservatory whre he studied under Professor A. I. Sokovnin. He completed his musical training under Professor D. A. Bashkirov at the Moskow Tschaikowsky Conservatory and was an award winner and laureate at competitions in Soviet Russia. The pianist’s concert tours have success in Russia and abroad.

In his graduation thesis he wrote about Johannes Brahms' Piano Trios and is the author of works on musicology, dealing with the history of the piano trio and the problems involved with its interpre- tation.

Alexander Bonduriansky is the author of scientific works on the history of chamber ensemble, compo- sers’ styles, problems of art interpretation and music education. He is the Candidate of Sciences, chairman and jury member of numerous international and all-Russian competitions.

He was vice-rector of Moscow State Conservatory and he still is President of Chamber Music Associ- ation of the International Union of Musicians. He was awarded the honourable title “Merited People’s Artist of Russia”, Moscow Prize in Literature and Art, The Gold Medal of Irina Arkhipova Fund, Medal of Honour of P. Tchaikovsky Fund.

Since 1980 he is professor at the Moskow Conservatory. The naster classes of A. Bonduryansky are successfully conducted in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Ukraine, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, Finland, Moldavia, Switzerland, the USA, etc.. Some ensembles formed by students from his class went on to become award winners at various international competitions.

Bonduryansky is a founder of the Moskow Piano Trio in 1968.  The main performances of Alexander Bonduriansky are connected with “Moscow Trio” (together with Vladimir Ivanov and Mikhail Utkin since 1976), which is one of the leading chamber ensembles in the world. As a part of this group, Alexander Bonduriansky became the laureate of the International Competition in Munich (1969, 2nd prize), winner of the competitions in Belgrade (1972), Budapest (1975), and Bordeaux (1976).

KSENIA BONDURYANSKAYA

Ksenia Bonduryanskaya, pia- nist, Art Manager, head of the special creative program of the Moskow Tchaikovsky Conser- vatory (festivals, competitions etc.),founder, permanent Direc- tor and teacher of the private music school "AD LIBIDUM" (Moscow) was born in 1969 in Kazan in a family of musicians. From the age of 3 she was educated at the special music school in Kharkov, which she completed in 1987 in the piano class with the gold medal. in 1992 she graduated from the Institute of Arts Charkow (I.P. Kotliarensky) with the so-called red diploma.

From 1992 to 1995 she was instructor at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Du- ring this time Ksenia Bonduryanskaya was also active at the Russian Academy of the Art of Theatre, as well as at the State Institute for art studies in the area of "Mana- gement of performing Arts ".

In 1998 her project "Russian Musical Exchange" received the aid of the G. Soros Fund.

Ksenia Bonduryanskaya is author of the courses "Management in the Musical Arts", "Marketing in the Musical Arts" and "The Basis of Concerts " for students of the acting profession at creative universities.

Since 1999 Mrs. Bonduryanskaya holds special lectures at the Moskow Tschaikowsky Conservatory, at the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov-Institute as well as at the Mos- cow Ippolitov-Ivanov-Institute on the subject of "The Management in the Sphere of performing Arts".

Between 2002 and 2005 she was Director-General of the Composer’s Music Festival for youth academies. In the years 2005 to 2011 Ksenia Bonduryanskaya was Vice- Rector for concert work and external relations of the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory St. Petersburg. In addition she supported the Superintendent of the State academic Philharmonic since 2003.

Since 2011 Mrs Bonduryanskaya is head of Department for the special complex "Enlightening and Creative Programs of the Moskow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. During this time she organized and was in charge of numerous international competi- tions for organ (A.F. Gerike), for wind and percussion instruments, for chamber music (N.G. Rubinstein), for pianists (A.N. Scriabin), for harpsichord (A.M. Wolkonskogo), for composers (N.K. Myaskowsky), for vocal piano duets (Pianovoce) as well as for choir conductor (B.G. Tewlin). In addition she organized international festivals for the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy, the 140th Anniversary of Sergej Rachmaninow, the annual organ festival on the 300th anniversary of C.Ph.E. Bach as well as master classes held by outstanding Russian and international professors for various musical disciplines.

In 2005, the private music school "AD LIBIDUM in Moskau was opened by Ksenia Bon- duryanskaya. This music school is very successfully operated since then after the trai- ning program developed by her:

At her music School "AD LIBIDUM" Ksenia Bonduryanskaya leads independently her own programmes for children in different areas (music, cinema, theatre), being under the umbrella "Great Music for Small People". Mrs. Bonduryanskaya works equally successful with small children als well as with adults.

Ksenia Bonduryanskaya is married with Prof. Ph. D. Alexander Bonduryansky (Merited People's Artist of Russia, Vice President of the State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Mos- cow, co-founder of the world famous Moscow Piano Trio).

2008 born son Alexander Alexandrowitsch Bonduryansky is trained in the preparation class of the central music school in Moscow as a pianist.

MOSKOW PIANO TRIO

The “Moscow Piano Trio” is considered one of the World’s main chamber en- sembles. The soloists of the collective  are Merited People’s Artists of Russia; they are Alexander Bonduryansky (pia- no), Vladimir Ivanov (violin), and Mikhail Utkin (cello).

The ensemble is a laureate of several international competitions, such as: the International Competition in Munich (1969, II Price), International Competition in Belgrade (1972, I. Price), International Music Festival in Budapest (1975, I. Price), and Bordeaux “Musical May” Fes- tival (1976, the Gold Medal “M. Ravel”).

All the three musicians have got excellent education in ensemble mastery under Prof. T. A. Gaidamo- vich. They have a vast solo repertoire, and give numerous concerts as soloists or accompanied by orchestras in Russia and abroad.

The repertoire of the ensemble comprises more than 200 compositions, numerous classical pro- grammes. The following cycles are notable: “Piano Trios of Russian Composers”, “Genre History”, “Piano Trios of Romanticism Epoch”, “All Beethoven’s Compositions”, and also monographs dedicated to W. A. Mozart, F. Schubert, F. Mendelssohn, J. Brahms, S. Rachmaninov and D. Shostakovich.

In concerts of the “Moscow Piano Trio» accompanied by symphonic orchestras the Triple Concerts of the following composers are performed: L. van Beethoven, A. Casella, B. Martin, N. Cherepnin, S. Berinsky, A. Tchaikovsky and A. Nikolaev. Concerts of the tree latter composers are inspired by the ensemble, dedicated to it and premierely  performed in the Great Hall of the Moscow conservatory.

The “Moscow Piano Trio” considers one of its main aims to return the forgotten old masterpieces of music to the listeners. For that purpose the ensemble performed Moscow premiere of compositions by Clementi, J. Brahms, F. Schubert, Clara Schumann, Hoffmann, E. Grieg, G. Donizetti, K. Debussy. The musicians also gave the first public performance of the First Trio op. 8 by young D. Shostakovich.

The activity of the Trio attracts modern composers’ attention to the ensemble. Numerous works of such composers as Tchaikovsky, Tchulaki, E. Lazarev, I. Golubev, Y. Butsko, V. Grokhovsky, a Finnish composer P.-H. Nordgren, Friedmann from France, are dedicated to The “Moscow Piano Trio Ensemble”. Many Russian and foreign composers have entrusted the Trio with the first performances of their works.

The musicians perform not only compositions for trio at their concerts. They frequently collaborated with such musicians as: vocalists Nesterenko and G. Pisarenko, American singer J. Kaufmann, viola players Y. Bashmet,  Bobrovsky and  Tolpygo, clarinetists V. Sokolov and  R. Bagdasaryan, contra-bassist R. Gabdullin.

The Trio was on tours not only in 300 cities of the former USSR, but also in 45 other countries of the world — from Argentina to Japan and from Norway to Egypt. Its performing art was met  with a great success in such halls as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall in London, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Merkin Concert Hall in New York, in the best concert halls of Moscow and St. Petersburg. The ensem- ble took part in prestigious festivals in Helsinki, Belgrad, Florence, Prague, Berlin, Dubrovnik, Ludwigs- burg, Sofia, St. Petersburg and Moscow. The concert of the Ensemble in the Ohrid Festival, Macedonia was acknowledged as the best concert of 1994.

The musicians of the ensemble give numerous master-classes and seminars in Russia and abroad. One of the German newspapers published the following review: “… Three musicians, pedagogues of the Moscow Conservatory, turned the days of the Courses into unforgetable ones for all the participants, due to their artistic charm and the power of the pedagogical persuasion”.

The Moscow Piano Trio has released a number of records with “Melodia” company in Russia, and later on they made CD records with German, French and American companies.

The work of the ensemble was highly appreciated in Russia — the musicians were honored by  sta- tuses of Merited People’s Artists of Russia, got the Moscow Prize in  Literature and Art, and “Muzi-kalnoje Obozrenie” newspaper called them “the  Best Ensemble of 1997”.