Aleksey Igudesman
Aleksey Igudesman (Russian Алексей Игудесман; born July 22, 1973 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Russian- German violinist, composer, conductor, and actor.
As Aleksey Igudesman was six years old, his family emigrated to Germany. At the age of 12 he was accepted at the Yehudi Menuhin School near London. From 1989 to 1998 he studied violin with Boris Kushnir at the Vienna Conservatory.
Musical Works
Aleksey Igudesman musical work was published by Universal Edition, and includes a wide repertoire of violin duets, violin sonatas and violin teaching schools. In addition to his violin duets for adults as Klezmer & More, Celtic & More, Latin & More, Asia & More, he published violin schools with the titles Style Workout, The Catscratchbook and Pigs Can Fly.
In the years 2009 and 2010 Igudesman published his first three violin sonatas, taking the violin virtuoso Julian Rachlin dedicated the Sonata No. 2 and the third violinist Viktoria Mullova. He also won in 2009 with his book Fever of Passion third prize in the Crossover Composition Award.
In Violins of the World, a joint project of Gidon Kremer, Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen and Alexandra Soumm Aleksey Igudesman Violin Duets are listed together and recited his poems by Roger Moore.
Aleksey Igudesman compositions were the Belgrade Symphony Orchestra performed by several orchestras, including the Kremerata Baltica, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra, Virtuosi Italiani, the Tonkünstlerorchester. In many cases, he was there working as a guest conductor.
Film Music
Aleksey Igudesman film composed and arranged music for several television and Hollywood film productions. In collaboration with Oscar - winner Hans Zimmer, he arranged movie musical works for the Hollywood productions, The Road to El Dorado, Spanglish and last for the movie Sherlock Holmes, who was nominated for the Academy Awards in 2010 for Best Film Music. Furthermore, Aleksey Igudesman has composed film music for Fehrnsehdokumentationen as Schönbrunn, Wachau and Salzburg, the famous Austrian director Georg Riha. Together with Hans Zimmer writes Igudesman currently on the music for the documentary Jealous of the Birds. [ Deprecated]
Music, comedy, theater
Aleksey Igudesman addition to film- musical activities, he and Sebastian Gürtler the two musical theater comedy programs created tandem for 2 violins and Sebastian, the Cyber Conductor for 2 violins and symphony orchestra.
The English - Korean pianist Richard Hyung -ki Joo Igudesman occurs in a show called " Igudesman & Joo - A Little Nightmare Music" ( The title of the show is a play on words with "A Little Night Music" - A Little Night Music ). Self titled " Igudesman & Joo - A BIG Nightmare Music " is available with symphony orchestras. As a comedian couple they also had a cameo in the Austro- German documentary Pianomania by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis directors, who came in over 20 countries in the cinemas and is part of the catalog of the Goethe -Institut.
Filmography
- 2012: Noseland (also director and producer )