Vadym Kholodenko
The winner of the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2013, Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko is a major rising star on the keyboard, a charismatic exemplar of the Russian school of pianism. Kholodenko was born in 1986 in Kiev, then part of the Soviet Union. He was the first musician in his family, and he made appearances in Croatia, the United States, Hungary, and China in his early teens, and he won first prize at the Maria Callas International Piano Competition in 2005. Feeling the need for more rigorous instruction, however, he enrolled the following year at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, studying with Vera Gornostaeva. Kholodenko notched several more competition wins and toured the globe in the late 2000s and early 2010s. He released several recordings of virtuoso repertory -- Liszt, Medtner, Rachmaninov -- on Russia's TV Culture label, and he performed and recorded chamber music with violinist Alena Baeva and in the piano duo iDuo with Andrey Gugnin. Even with these successes, he was only one of a number of rising young pianists until his Van Cliburn Competition triumph in Texas, fueled in part by a cadenza for the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, that he composed on the plane on the way to the competition. In addition to a large cash prize, the competition win came with a three-year tour and a release of his live competition performances on the Harmonia Mundi USA label. Kholodenko moved to Fort Worth, the site of the Cliburn competition. He then recorded several albums for Russia's Melodiya label while continuing to tour. In 2018, he returned to Harmonia Mundi with a recital of preludes, etudes, and sonatas by Scriabin.
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Discography
15 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Fantasy
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on 2 Feb 2024
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Prokofiev : Piano Concertos 2 & 5
Vadym Kholodenko, Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Keyboard Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on 5 Feb 2016
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Scriabin : Preludes, Etudes & Sonatas Nos. 4 & 5
Solo Piano - Released by harmonia mundi on 22 Jun 2018
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Prokofiev: Piano Concertos No. 1, 3 & 4 (Live)
Vadym Kholodenko, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 15 Feb 2019
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The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Classical - Released by Quartz Music on 4 Nov 2022
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Sonatas, Opp. 37 & 80
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 11 Jun 2021
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Prokofiev: Sonata No. 6 & Visions fugitives
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 26 Jun 2020
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Gold Medalist: Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 12 Nov 2013
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Medtner: Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 25 - Rachmaninoff: Piano Transcriptions (Vadym Kholodenko)
Classical - Released by Delos on 7 Jan 2014
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Grieg & Saint-Saëns : Piano Concertos
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Vadym Kholodenko
Keyboard Concertos - Released by harmonia mundi on 14 Aug 2015
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Liszt: Transcendental Études
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 1 Jun 2013
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No.23 (Live)
Belarusian State Chamber Orchestra, Vadym Kholodenko, Evgeny Bushkov
Classical - Released by Belarusian State Chamber Orchestra on 12 Mar 2022
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Tchaikovsky, Balakirev, Chaplygin, Kurbatov
Classical - Released by JSC Firma Melodiya on 26 Feb 2016
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Internationaler Schubert-Wettbewerb Dortmund Klavier 2011
Pop - Released by Thorofon Records on 20 Jul 2012
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Vadym KHOLODENKO Winner of the 4th Sendai International Music Competition Piano Section
Classical - Released by Fontec on 7 Nov 2012
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