Outstanding person in present day music activities
Krzysztof Penderecki
The concerts of Mr Ivashkin can be recognised as an essential step toward authentic interpretation. This means an intense amount of preparation both in the musicological field and in the exact knowledge of different styles
Mauricio Kagel
Prodigious cellist
The Guardian
Alexander Ivashkin swings mightily into all he does, with élan
The Glasgow Herald
His cello sounds like an orchestra, with lyric and tragic spirit at the
same time
Corriere del Ticino
Ivashkin is a cellist we should hear more often
The Financial Times
Alexander Ivashkin is no ordinary cellist… his extensive concerto
repertoire (over 60 works at the last count) suggests a heightened taste
for the unusual and exotic
The Strad
Ivashkin combines breadth of knowledge with a driving energy
Daily Telegraph
Gabriel Prokofiev: Concerto for Turntables No. 1 & Cello Concerto
In 2020, the british composer Gabriel Prokofiev released a CD on the label Signum Classics, with Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Alexei Bogorad, soloists Mr.Switch and Boris Andrianov.
The Cello Concerto was commissioned by Alexander Ivashkin, and he was a first performer of this work on 18 May 2013 at St.Petersburg Philharmonic Hall. This CD recording is dedicated to the memory of Alexander Ivashkin (click the 2nd image).
18 May 2013, Great Hall, St. Petersburg Philharmonia (Russia) The Prokofievs: Three Generations
Sergei Prokofiev – Concertino for cello and orchestra (1953) reconstruction and orchestration by Vladimir Blok with Alexander Ivashkin's additions and corrections based on the composer's sketches
Oleg Prokofiev – Poems
Gabriel Prokofiev – Concerto for cello and orchestra (world premiere).
With the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Sabrie Bekirova
Highlights from the world premiere:
Audio recording:
1st movement
2nd movement
3rd movement
7 June, 2012
The Mariinsky Concert Hall, St Petersburg
The White Nights/New Horizons International Festival Nikolai Korndorf – Concerto Capriccioso.
Alexander Raskatov – New Work (World premiere)
Alexander Ivashkin, cello
The Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev, conductor
6 June, 2012, The Yaani Kirek Concert Hall, St Petersburg The White Nights/New Horizons International Festival Bach – Cello Suites
Vasks – Buch for Cello
Alexander Ivashkin, cello
Three Cellos Plus… The Radio Orfei program about The New Horizons Festival in St.Petersburg, June 2012. In Russian
11 September 2012
Alexander Ivashkin's Recital in the Berckendael Prison, Brussels
17.08.1948, Blagoveschensk (Russia) — 31.01.2014, London (UK) Necrologues…
2 November 2018
Russia and the West Europe in the fate of Russian musicians
The Gnessins Academy hosted a scientific conference dedicated to the memory of Alexander Ivashkin. Click on the image on the left to see the program.
1 November, 2018 Concert in memory of Alexander Ivashkin Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Grand Hall
The Students' Orchestra of Moscow Conservatory, conductor Alexander Lazarev
Soloists: Alexander Ramm – cello, and Dmitry Alexeev – piano (Great Britain)
31 October, 2018 October 31, 2018 Concert in memory of Alexander Ivashkin Gnessins Music Academy, Small Hall
Vladimir Tonkha – cello, Pavel Dombrovsky – piano, Ivan Sokolov – piano, ensemble of the contemporary choral music "Alto Coro", art director and conductor – Alexander Ryzhinsky
Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schnittke, Gubaidulina, I. Sokolov
2–3 June 2017
Between the Lands: Alexander Ivashkin Remembered
An international conference and celebration jf the legacy, musicological and performance interests of the late Professor Alexander Ivashkin
The Centre for Russian Music,
Goldsmith University of London
Location: Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall Building
Rozhovory ALFREDA SCHNITTKEHO s violoncellistou Alexandrem Ivaškinem
Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, 2015
ISBN 978-80-7464-832-8
Articles:
'Krossover i dvoynaia pererabotka v sovetskoy i postsovetskoy muzyke.' ['Crossover and double processing in Soviet and post-Soviet music'] Translation from English to Russian and comments by Yuliya Panteleyeva.
in Slovo kompozitora o kompozitore: sbornik statey i materialov, Moscow, The Gnessins Russian Academy of Music, 2016: 15–30.
'Symbols, Metaphors and Irrationalities in Twentieth-Century Music'.
10 March 2014
In Memory of Alexander Ivashkin
Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Conference hall, 7:00pm
Schnittke, Ives, Penderecki
Soloists of Studio for New Music ensemble
Ivashkin plays Gubaidulina, Tarnopolski and Redgate
Gubaidulina: Canticle of the Sun for cello, choir and percussion
Tarnopolski: Le vent des mots qu'il n'a pas dits, for cello and orchestra
Redgate: Black Icons, for cello and small orchestra
World Premiere of Roger Redgate Black Icons for cello and ensemble:
The Rakhmaninov Hall, Moscow Conservatoire, 18 April 2011
Alexander Ivashkin, cello, The Studio for New Music Ensemble, Igor Dronov, conductor
Nikolay Korndorf. Complete Music for Cello With Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Konstantin Krimets. Anya Alexeev, piano
Toccata Classics, 2012
