Igor Tchetuev

Igor Tchetuev was born in Sevastopol (Ukraine) in 1980 and at the age of fourteen he won the Grand Prix at the International Vladimir Krainev Young Pianists’ Competition (Ukraine); he is currently perfecting his skills under Maestro Krainev. In 1998, at the age of eighteen, he was awarded first prize at the IX Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, where he was also voted “Audience Favourite”.
In 2007, Igor Tchetuev accompanied the illustrious bass Ferruccio Furlanetto at La Scala; he has given three concerts with the Sinfonieorchester Köln for three concerts under Semyon Bychkov and he triumphed at the Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron in a recital of twenty-four etudes by Chopin.

In 2009 he was a special guest performer with the Orchestre National de France at the Théâtre des Champs Élysées, and July 2010 will see him appear there under Neeme Järvi with Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. Other engagements for this season include: Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with the Luxembourg Philharmonic under Günther Herbig; appearances with the Orchestre National de Montpellier under Yaron Traub; the Moscow Virtuoisi with Vladimir Spivakov and Maxim Vengerov; the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra under Pavel Kogan on tour in Great Britain; the Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine on tour in Switzerland; the Orchestre Symphonique de Saint-Étienne under Vladimir Vakoulsky and the Euro-Asian Philharmonic in South Korea.

Igor Tchetuev regularly performs in France and in other European nations, giving four recitals at Wigmore Hall, an appearance with Xavier Phillips at the Colmar and the Montpellier Festivals and recitals with Augustin Dumay in Paris.
He has also collaborated with ensembles including the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestras of Cologne, Halle, Hanover, Tours and Brittany, West German Radio and North German Radio Orchestras, the Moscow Virtuosi, the St Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Poland, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Bern Philharmonic, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dortmund Orchester, the New Philharmonic of Japan, the New World Symphony and the Orchestre National de Lille under such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Semyon Bychkov, Vladimir Spivakov, Marc Elder, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Alexander Dmitriev, Maxim Shostakovich, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Jean-Claude Casadesus and Vladimir Sirenko.

Igor Tchetuev takes part in many international music festivals, among them those in Colmar, the Yehudi Menuhin Festival, the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, festivals in Braunschweig, Sintra and Schleswig-Holstein, the Zino Francescatti Festival, festivals in Divonne-les-Bains, Hardelot, the Chopin Festival in Paris, the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and the Festival de Radio France and Montpellier.
Igor Tchetuev frequently tours Europe, and his recordings have received numerous awards and accolades. With the violinist Andrey Bielov, he has recorded all the Prokofiev Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Naxos). He has also recorded a recital of Romantic Etudes featuring music by Schumann, Chopin, Liszt and Scriabin (Tri-M Classic). For Germany’s Orfeo label, he recorded three Chopin Sonatas, which were highly praised by critics, and the Russian branch of Caro Mitis released the disc Alfred Schnittke’s Complete Piano Sonatas. This recording was awarded Germany’s Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik and took tenth position in France’s Classica-Répertoire listings; it also received a laudatory write-up in Gramophone magazine. His most recent recordings are the first three volumes of the Complete Beethoven Sonatas (Caro Mitis), which have received lavish critical acclaim.