Spiridonov Andrei Alekseyevich

Spiridonov Andrei Alekseyevich

Main article: Music in Russia in the XVIII century

Biography

Born June 10, 1957. He began to learn to play the cello at the seven-year school named after Gnesins with the teacher A. A. Klivansky, one of the favorite students of the outstanding Russian cellist A. A. Brandukov. Then he continued his studies at the Central Medical School at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of associate professor S. T. Kalyanov, who was for many years an assistant to M. L. Rostropovich. He began to concert from the age of 8 and already at the age of 11 he won the youth cellist competition initiated by M. Rostropovich.

In 1975-1980 studied at the Moscow Conservatory with outstanding cellists of our time I. A. Monighetti and N. N. Shakhovskaya. At the same time he studied in the composition class of T. N. Khrennikov.

1980: Soloist of the ensemble "Baroque" I. Popkov

After graduating from the conservatory, he becomes a soloist of the Baroque ensemble, created by People's Artist of Russia I. Popkov. The team specialized in the performance of music of the XVIII - early XIX centuries.

1990s: "Academy of Ancient Music" conducted by T. T. Grindenko

In the 1990s, he worked as a soloist of the Academy of Ancient Music ensemble under the direction of T. T. Grindenko. Over the years, he played more than two thousand concerts in almost all countries of Europe, Asia, Canada and the United States.

Creation of the ensemble "Baroque soloists"

Andrei Spiridonov in 1997 created the ensemble "Baroque Soloists," the purpose of which is to create historically oriented musical programs based on practical cultural studies (the method discovered by A. Piridonov), which are based on the repertoire performed in Russia in the 18th - early 19th centuries. To perform this repertoire A. Spiridonov did a huge scientific work on finding and restoring musical works of this period. The method of practical cultural studies combines the philosophical, historical and artistic context of musical compositions. Based on this repertoire, cycles of historical short story concerts were created, which took place in the chamber hall of the Moscow Philharmonic and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

These cycles are also recorded on CD. Among them:

• "1812 Heroes and Contemporaries,"
• "Musical Chronicle of the Russian Court,"
• "The Origins of Russian Romanticism."
• "Vivaldi. Russian trace. "
• "Sebastianon. Grandsons of I. S. Bach in Russia "and others.

At the Moscow Sheremetyevo Theater in Ostankino, A. Piridonov and the ensemble "Baroque Soloists" performed authentic performances of operas by J.-J. Russo "The Village Sorcerer" and J. Pergolesi "Livietta and Tracolo."

2000: Ensemble "Orfarion" O.V. Khudyakova, Dean of FISII

Since 2000, he has been working in the state ensemble of soloists "Orfarion," created by O. V. Khudyakov, assistant professor at the conservatory, dean of the Faculty of Historical and Modern Performing Arts (FISII).

A. Spiridonov took an active part in the creation of FISII and almost from the very beginning teaches cello at the faculty. He is the first teacher at the conservatory who began to teach students to play the baroque cello. A. Spiridonov associate professor of the conservatory and head of the department of strings, wind and percussion instruments of FISII.

Over the years of teaching, he brought up more than a dozen laureates of international competitions, including the competition named after P.I. Tchaikovsky.

Publications

A. Spiridonov is the author of scientific articles on Russian musical art of the 18th - early 19th centuries. One of the last works is a study and concert performance of the program "Alexander Classicism in Music."

Awards

• Laureate of the competition held by M. Rostropovich in Moscow (1968, I Prize)
• Laureate of the composers competition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Victory over Germany (1975)
• Laureate of international festivals in Moscow and Montreal
• Laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize
• Awarded a Certificate of Honor of the Supreme Council of Georgia