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Denis Shapovalov (Cello)

 

“A brilliant talent! He should be proud of his gift!” – this is how famous Mstislav Rostropovich characterized Shapovalov.

Shapovalov won recognition for his exceptional gift at the XI International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1998 where the jury unanimously awarded him the 1st prize. One of the awards was an invitation to the World Cello Congress – for his American debut, he gave a successful performance at the Congress in Baltimore in 2000. Gold medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition cleared his way to the world’s most prestigious venues – the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican Center in London, the Munich Philharmonic, the Megaron Concert Hall in Athens, the National Auditorium of Music and the Palacio de Congresos in Madrid, the UNESCO Conference Hall in Paris, the Vaduzer Saal in Liechtenstein, the Avery Fisher Hall in New York, the Peabody Auditorium in Daytona, the Beijing Concert Hall, the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo.

Shapovalov collaborates with the world leading orchestras – the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the “Moscow Virtuosi” chamber orchestra, the “Moscow Soloists” chamber orchestra, the Lithuanian State and the National Symphony Orchestras, the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra and the Macao Symphony Orchestra.

Maestro Rostropovich distinguished Shapovalov among all Russian cellists and invited him to perform together with different orchestras in Russia, Great Britain and the USA and to participate in Rostropovich’s festivals in Azerbaijan and France. Shapovalov was the only cellist to participate in the celebration of Rostropovich’s 75th birthday in New York and London with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Shapovalov also worked under such famous conductors as Lorin Maazel, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Vladimir Fedoseev, Yutaka Sado, Yoel Levi, Andrew Litton, Christian Badea, Vladimir Spivakov, Gintaras Rinkevicius, Yuri Bashmet, Gianandrea Noseda, Valery Poliansky, Alexander Vedernikov, Thomas Sanderling, Boguslaw Dawidow, Conrad van Alphen, Marc Tardue, Jonathan Brett and others.

Denis participated in numerous international festivals in Russia, Europe, Asia and the USA. He appeared in radio and TV concert broadcasts recorded by “Russia-Kultura”, “Bayerischer Rundfunk”, “Radio France”, “NY Public Radio”, “Bayern Klassik”, “Das Erste ARD”, “Mezzo”, “NHK”.

Shapovalov is also an outstanding chamber musician; he performed together with many prominent partners including Rodion Shchedrin, Vadim Repin, Nikolaj Znaider, Sergey Babayan, Olga Kern, Alexander Ljubimov, John Nakamatsu, Alexander Ghindin, Andres Mustonen.

Shapovalov actively participates in various modern music projects; he was the first to perform the compositions by Rodion Shchedrin, Giya Kancheli, Jakob ter Veldhuis, Claude Bolling and others in Russia and the world. In 2006 Denis initiated a competition for young Russian composers “CelloVek”.

Denis Shapovalov is a versatile musician; he is not only an academic performer but also has original jazz programs in his repertoire. Denis translated his passion for rock music into his crossover project “Above the Earth” which attracts new audiences to his classical performances.

Shapovalov was born in 1974 in Tchaikovsky town in the Urals. In 2000 he graduated from Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory where he studied under Professor Natalia Shakhovskaya. For 12 years he had been teaching cello as a professor of the Moscow Conservatory. Denis is regularly invited to give master-classes in Russia and abroad including the Belgrade Conservatory and the Conservatorio Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. So big had been the interest of the students from different countries in lessons with Denis that in 2014 he arrived to the idea of starting the “Cello Travel International Academy” educational project.

In 2007 Shapovalov became the first classical musician who had performed solo concert at the North Pole.

 





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