Education
A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory where he studied with Aleksey Nasedkin, Vladimir Ovchinnikov is resident professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory and guest professor of piano at Sakuyo University in Japan.
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A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory where he studied with Aleksey Nasedkin, Vladimir Ovchinnikov is resident professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory and guest professor of piano at Sakuyo University in Japan.
He was awarded second place in the Montreal International Music Competition in 1980. In 1987, he was awarded first prize at the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. In March 2011 he served as chairman of the jury of the 9th International Russian Rotary Children Music Competition and in April 2011 he was named director of the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory.
Ovchinnikov appears regularly with such leading Russian orchestras as the Moscow Philharmonic.
Moscow Radio Symphony and the Street St. Petersburg Philharmonic. He also has a long standing relationship with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, and was a special favorite of Yevgeny Svetlanov, with whom he toured France, the Netherlands, and North and South America.
Concerto appearances in Europe and North America have included the following:
Ovchinnikov has played under various conductors including:
Among his recordings are Shostakovich"s Piano Concerto Number. 1 coupled with Mussorgsky"s Pictures at an Exhibition (Collins Classics), Rachmaninoff"s Études-Tableaux, and Liszt"s Transcendental Études, and Prokofiev"s Piano Sonatas (Electric and Music Industries).
Other recordings include sonatas for violin and piano by Grieg (together with the violinist Vinnitsky) - for the Russian Seasons label, also - Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Taneyev, Rubinstein for Gold Club.