Aleksey Igudesman

Best known as a great violinist, Aleksey Igudesman n (*San Petersburg, 1973) has also established himself as a composer, conductor, actor and filmmaker. His compositions are published by Universal Edition and have been performed worldwide by soloists, ensembles and orchestras, such as the New York Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony Orchestra, often with his participation as a solo violinist and conductor. Igudesman’s commissions in 2018 include a whole evening of music for the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, a piece for two violins and orchestra for Vadim Repin and Clara-Jumi Kang, and a work for violin solo and 100 violinists for Daniel Hope, as well as numerous publications on Universal Edition and Modern Works. 

But most of all, Igudesman is a genre unto himself. None other than him knows how to play and parody both, with incredible humor and finesse, the greatest of classical music.