Mikhail Arkadev

Arkadyev Mikhail Aleksandrovich (15 March 1958, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR) - Soviet and Russian conductor, pianist, composer, music theorist, and philosopher https://old.tsc.edu.ge/uploads/VITA_english_1.pdf. Doctor of Arts (2003). Honored Artist of Russia (1995).
==Biography==
He was born into a family with ancient musical and artistic roots (his grandfather on his father's side was the founder and chief painter of the St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Botanical Museum, his great-grandfather on his mother's side was a cantor in the Moscow Synagogue, his grandfather was a violinist in the Bolshoi Theater orchestra, and his parents knew and loved music). He began to play and improvise on the piano by himself at the age of 13, then took lessons from the famous teacher A.D. Artobolevskaya. From 1974 to 1978 he studied piano at the Academy of Music of the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Yakov Milstein, then with A. Sobolev, as well as with Yu. In 1978-1983 he studied at the Russian Academy of Music. From 1978 to 1983 he studied at the Gnesins' Academy of Music (then at the State Pedagogical Institute) with Alexander Alexandrov, where he also completed his postgraduate studies in 1988. He studied composition with A. G. Schnittke and R. S. Ledenev, conducting with Voldemar Nelson http://belcanto.ru/nelsson.html https://web.archive.org/web/20111012023545/http://wagneropera.net/RW-Performers/Woldemar-Nelsson.htm, Y. Simonov and M. Ermler. Arkadiev as a musicologist was influenced by the work of M. G. Harlap, I. Braudo, E. Kurt, and L. A. Mazel.
Arkadiev worked closely with G. V. Sviridov from 1988 to 1998. He was directly involved in the conception, creation, commentary, and the first performer (together with Dmitri Hvorostovsky) of his last large vocal composition - the poem "Petersburg" for voice and piano on the words of A. Blok.
In 1989 he gave his first recitals abroad and became a regular participant and musical director of the Festival "Русские вечера" of Piano and Chamber Music in Morsum (Germany). As a pianist Arkadev performed with many conductors: V. Fedoseev, Y. Simonov, V. Ponkin, S. Skripka (Russia), R. Kofman (Ukraine), etc.
From 1990 to 2003. Arkadyev worked as a pianist with Dmitry Hvorostovsky on all major stages of the world (three CDs were recorded with him: Philips, 1994, 1997, and Delos, 2003). Arkadiev, together with Hvorostovsky, is the author of a new performance version of Sviridov's poem "The Departed Russia" (on the words of S. Esenin) (published by "Music", 1996), https://www.naxos.com/Bio/Person/Mikhail_Arkadiev/69738, 
His works are performed on Russian and foreign stages. His compositions are performed at Russian and foreign stages. The world premiere of Arkadiev's work "Missa brevis" for mixed choir, children's choir and organ (with Latin text) was held in Lyon, France in 1995, and it was recorded by "REM" (France, 1995).
He has been a guest conductor with various symphony orchestras and opera houses in Russia and abroad since 1998. From 2002-2004 Arkadiev has been Principal Conductor and Musical Director of the Volgograd State Opera House (now the Tsaritsynskaya Opera House). From 2007 to 2011. -Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra (Vladivostok).
Arkadiev conducted a great pedagogical (from 1992-1999 he was Head of the piano department at the Academy of Choral Arts, and from 1999 he was Assistant Professor of the Special Piano Department at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music) and scientific work. As a music theorist, he developed the concept of a "non-sounding" "non-acoustic" basis as a basic element of the rhythmic system of New European music. He introduced the terms "time-energy", "chronoarticulation process", "gravitational rhythm", "axial pulsation", "paradoxical league", etc. His innovative (according to L.A. Mazel) ideas continued and developed M.G. Kharlap's theory of rhythm.
He is known not only as a musician but also as a philosopher and author of the original philosophical and anthropological concept of the "linguistic catastrophe". http://www.limbakh.ru/index.php?id=2298
In 2012-2018, he worked https://hnust.academia.edu/MikhailArkadev/CurriculumVitae as a Professor of Piano at the Hunan Institute of Science and Technology (China), College of Music http://en.hnist.cn/
Since August 2018 Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Chamber Orchestra of the Smolensk Philharmonic http://www.smolensk-filarmonia.ru/
==Political position==
On June 28, 2011, he published a letter against the unification of the Union of Composers of the Russian Federation with the list of the All-Russian People's Front and, accordingly, his inclusion in this Front without his consent.
The scandal caused by Arkadyev's statement led to Putin's reaction. [1] The prime minister stated that he was against joining the People's Front by appointment, and also spoke out against the ONF's numbers being "artificially inflated." "This can only discredit the idea itself," Putin stated.
On July 31, Arkadyev took part in the "Strategy-31" rally on Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow, [2] and gave several interviews in the Moscow media [3]
==Recordings==
* https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E4xVbnTHhe8Hk
* https://music.apple.com/us/artist/mikhail-arkadiev/137633354, 
* https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mikhail-arkadiev-mn0002179408/credits
* https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/composers/10715--arkadiev
==Works==
===Musical===
For piano:
* «Sonata brevis»(1975) ;
* «Eine kleine Zaubermusik» (1975—1989) ;
* Four elegies (1976) ;
Chamber:
* «Пассакалии» для органа, скрипки и виолончели, посв. А. Шнитке и М. Лубоцкому (2017);
* Элегическое трио для скрипки, виолончели и фортепиано, посв. Марку и Ольге Лубоцким (2017).
======Orchestra======
* Concerto grosso «Руины барокко» для скрипки, органа, и стр. оркестра ;
* Pacific Suite для большого симфонического оркестра 
* Элегическое трио («Рильке») для фортепиано, скрипки и виолончели (2018) 
* «Сарабанды» для гобоя, скрипки, виолончели, литавр, органа и струнного оркестра (2018).
* «Кёнигсбергский триптих» для гобоя, скрипки, виолончели, литавр, органа и струнного оркестра (2020)
* Концерт “Flame” для фортепиано и камерного оркестра (2021)
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