Rysanov Maxim
He is regularly invited to perform as a soloist and chamber musician in the UK and abroad and has been a guest at many prestigious festivals including Lockenhaus, Cheltenham, Spitalfields, Newbury, Aldeburgh, Brighton, Homecoming and Crescendo. He works regularly with prestigious artists such as Gidon Kremer, Maxim Vengerov, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, Mischa Maisky, Viktoria Mullova, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Lev Markiz, Giya Kancheli, ASCH Trio, Razumovsky Ensemble and others.
Originally from the Ukraine he is now based in London after having studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and prior to that at the Central Special Music School in Moscow. He is a prize-winner of several major international awards, including the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, the Guildhall Gold Medal, Valentino Bucchi International Viola Competition, Carmel international Chamber Music Competition, Haverhill Symphonia Soloist Competition and most recently the prestigious Geneva Competition.
Maxim has always given a big part of his creative energies to promoting new music. Several works have been dedicated to him, including works by Dobrinka Tabakova and Elena Langer and more recently he was invited to perform the world premiere of a new Duo Concertante work for viola and cello by Artyom Vassiliev at the Spitalfields Festival with the Britten Sinfonia.
This season’s highlights include a performance of the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with the London Mozart Players on Mozart’s 250 birth day anniversary, a tour of Australia with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and a premiere performance of Styx by Kancheli with the Liepaja Orchestra and Chorus “Kamer…” in Latvia. Additionally he has appeared at the Bergen Festival, Utrecht Festival, West Cork Chamber Festival, and Julian Rachlin & Friends Festival in Dubrovnik, where he performed Vivaldi Concerto for 4 violins along other stars - Jansen, Rachlin and Vengerov. This season Maxim also toured Europe with Viktoria Mullova Ensemble. Since 2005, Maxim is a member of the renowned chamber music series, Spectrum Concerts Berlin, which takes place in the Kammermusik saal of the Berlin Philharmonie.
In the forthcoming season Maxim will make his debut in Japan and China in a chamber project with Julian Rachlin and Mischa Maisky and also perform the Mozart Sinfonie Concertante with Augustin Dumay and the Orchestre Royale de Wallonie at the Beijing Festival. He will also make his orchestral debut in Germany performing the Bartok Concerto for Viola with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland Pfalz and Tamas Vasary and perform an arrangement of the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Rouse Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria.
Future recording plans a debut recital disc with Evelyn Chang on the Avie label and recording of chamber programme with Janine Jansen for Decca. Both are scheduled for 2007.
After a conducting fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music and winning the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s Young Conductor scheme, Maxim also has a burgeoning career as a conductor. Most recently he directed a performance of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf with Sir Roger Moore in Dubrovnik. In December 2006 Maxim will conduct Stravinsky Soldier’s Tale in Utrecht.
Maxim is delighted to have a Giuseppe Guadagnini (1780) viola on extended loan from an anonymous donor.
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