Persons

Vassily Stepanov

Cello

Biography

Born in 1994 in Kazan. He graduated from the Kazan Musical College named after I.V. Aukhadeev (class of teacher Oksana Bystrova). Graduate of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (class of People's Artist of the USSR, Professor Natalya Shakhovskaya, Honoured Artist of Russia Boris Andrianov), he graduated from the assistantship (class of Honoured Artist of Russia Boris Andrianov) in 2020. Since 2018 he is a student at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid (class of Prof. Jens Peter Maintz).
Took part in master classes of Sergey Roldugin, David Geringas, Jans-Peter Mainz, Martti Rousi, Niels Ullner, Kirill Rodin, Denis Shapovalov, Torleif Thedéen, Gautier Capuçon and in international Carl Nielsen master class (Assens, Denmark).

Laureate of the international competitions.
2010: Winner of Valery Gavrilin International Competition (Vologda).
2012: Laureate of the II prize of Sviatoslav Knushevitsky International Cello Competition (Saratov), The Grand Prix winner of International Competition "Constellation of Talents" (Cheboksary), Winner of the International Youth Competition. E.A. Mravinsky (St. Petersburg).
2018: Winner of International Competition "Riga Classic Strings" (Latvia). Laureate of the I prize at the III All-Russian Music Competition (Moscow).
2022: The II prize at the IV All-Russian Music Competition (Ufa, October 12-18, 2022)
2023: The winner of the VI prize at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow and Saint Petersburg, 19 June – 1 July 2023)

Holder of fellowship of the Head of Kazan City Administration and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan.

He has a busy concert schedule in Russia and abroad. He has given recitals in Europe, the USA, South Korea, Japan, Tanzania.
He has performed with such conductors as Alexander Sladkovsky, Alexander Titov, Dimitris Botinis, Alim Shakhmametyev, Christian Knapp, Eduard Grach, Maxim Fedotov, Teodor Currentzis, Michalis Economou, Julian Galant, Rustem Abyazov, Alexey Vorontsov.

Participated in the Eliso Virsaladze Music Festival, as well as the concert, organized by the Vladimir Spivakov Charity Foundation in the «Avery Fisher Hall» (New York).
Participant of St. Petersburg Music House programs since 2012.

October 2023

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