Biography

Arcadi Volodos

Volodos has everything - imagination, passion and a phenomenal technique - to carry out his ideas on the piano. His limitless virtuosity, combined with a unique sense of rhythm, color and poetry, makes Volodos the narrator of intense stories and infinite worlds!

Born in St Petersburg in 1972, Arcadi Volodos began his musical studies with lessons in singing and conducting. He did not begin serious training as a pianist until 1987 at the St Petersburg Conservatory before pursuing advanced studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Galina Egiazarova and in Paris and Madrid.

Since making his New York debut in 1996, Volodos has performed throughout the world in recital and with the most eminent orchestras and conductors.

"Arcadi Volodos: A keyboard poet beyond compare"

The Independent