Alexei Utkin

Russian [u]oboist and conductor.[/u] Alexey Utkin was born in 1957 in Moscow. He studied at the Central Music School. Graduated Moscow Conservatory (1980) and postgraduate studies (1983) in the oboe class with Anatoly Petrov / Анатолий Петров. The school that the young oboist went through in the Moscow Virtuosi, a brilliant musical education, natural talent - all this made him a prominent figure in the music world. Utkin is one of the musicians who happened to bring the oboe as a solo instrument to the world stage. Having performed most of the solo compositions written for oboe, Utkin began to expand the range and the possibilities of the tool due to the arrangements. Utkin 's repertoire includes works by Bach and Haydn, Vivaldi and Mozart, Richard Strauss, Shostakovich, Bruch, Britten. Among the maestro's stage partners are Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Bashmet, Heinz Holliger, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Natalia Gutman, Eliso Virsaladze, Alexander Rudin, Elena Obraztsova, David Daniels, Christian Zacharias, Frederick Kempf, Boris Berezovsky, Viktor Tretyakov. Utkin was applauded by Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall (New York), Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Palau De La Música Catalana (Barcelona), Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Champs-Elysees Theater (Paris), Beethovenhalle Bonn. Many of Utkin's programs have been recorded on CD, including concerts by J. S. Bach for oboe and oboe d'amour, works by Rossini, Pasculli, Vivaldi, Salieri, "Capriccio" by Krzysztof Penderecki. In the late 1990s, continuing to cooperate with the "Virtuosos of Moscow", Utkin began an independent career in 2000 year creates the Hermitage ensemble / St. Petersburg Camerata. With this group , the maestro gave many concerts and recorded 12 CD for the Caro Mitis label, including works by J. S. Bach, K. F. E. Bach, Mozart, Haydn, R. Strauss, Shostakovich, Britten. In 2010 Utkin headed the Moscow Chamber Orchestra.