Trio Fratrès,
Fedor Rudin, violin
Fedor Rudin made his debut at the Berlin Philharmonic with a program called ‘Violin Magic’—an apt title, for he truly brings out the magic of the instrument. He captivates his audience, including the jurors of the 2018 Premio Paganini competition, with his superior finger dexterity and sound quality. Yet he is also one of today’s most exciting young musical figures. At the age of thirty-two, he is now enjoying a phase of significant debuts: Fedor Rudin has recently performed as a soloist at the Laeiszhalle and Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Prague's Rudolfinum, the Paris Philharmonie, and Carnegie Hall in New York. He was also a guest at the Salzburg Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Fedor Rudin has performed with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris and the SWR Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has collaborated with conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Petr Popelka, Andris Poga and Lorenzo Viotti. He enjoys playing classics as well as lesser-known important works such as Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 2 and the avant-garde repertoire of his grandfather Edison Denisov.
Fedor Rudin is a passionate chamber musician who collaborates with renowned partners such as pianists Boris Kusnezow, Julien Libeer, and Florian Noack; cellists Julia Hagen, Ivan Karizna, and Bruno Philippe; the Pavel Haas Quartet; and the Signum Saxophone Quartet. Since 2022, he has served as the artistic director of the Rencontres Musicales de Chaon chamber music festival in France.
The 2024-25 season will take him all over the globe. Fedor Rudin will debut with the Brno Philharmonic under Tomáš Netopil, return to the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra under designated chief conductor Dmitry Matvienko, and make his conducting debut at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall and Vienna’s Konzerthaus. Chamber music will lead him to collaborate for the first time with partners such as Adam Laloum, Paul Meyer, Alexandre Tharaud, and István Várdai. He will also conduct premieres of commissioned works by composers Elise Bertrand, Fabien Cali, and Fabien Touchard.
Florian Noack, piano
Imagine a map of the world, turned upside down. When such a world is your point of reference, the terms ‘obscure’ and ‘well-known’ do not necessarily apply. Much in the same way, Florian Noack (1990, Belgium) discovered the world of repertoire for piano. Even as a teen, composers like Alkan, Medtner, Lyapunov were studied next to Chopin and Beethoven, thanks to the highly inspirational book ‘Piano Music’ by Guy Sacre.
Sources of inspiration
Out of love for Russian literature and studies with pianist-composer Vassily Lobanov, Florian developed a natural affinity with Russian heritage. His piano transcriptions, based on orchestral works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Rimsky-Korsakov, have attracted the attention of musicians such as Boris Berezovsky and Dmitri Bashkirov. ‘It is a form of creativity and ingenuity that forces me to approach my instrument differently; searching for new textures, richness, colours or ways to combine my ten fingers’, Florian says. Praise for the recording of these works include the ECHO Klassik Award ‘Emerging Artist of the Year 2015’, the International Classical Music Award, the Octave de la Musique, a nomination for Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and the Diapason d’Or of the Year 2017.
‘Virtuosity’ being a word regularly connected to Florian, the press and his peers acknowledge it as a means to an end. With his interpretation and programmatic innovation, Florian strives to keep audiences on their toes. Le Figaro commented on a recent recording: ‘A portrait of Prokofiev in Noack’s own image: contrasting but authentic. Restless and bright. Tender but incisive.’
Background
Formative experiences have been the studies with Claudio Martinez-Mehner at the Musikhochschule Basel, and Academy masterclasses with the socratic teachings of Ferenc Rados in Prussia Cove, Cornwall. Florian Noack has won numerous prizes including the International Rachmaninoff Competition, the international Robert Schumann Competition and the International Piano Competition Cologne.
Invitations from around the world keep building his presence in festivals and concert halls, allowing meaningful collaborations with other musicians, conductors and orchestras. Florian has recorded six well-received CDs with various off-the-beaten-track repertoire and with his own piano transcriptions.
He joined the Fratres Trio with violinist Fedor Rudin (Konzertmeister of the Wiener Philharmoniker) and saxophonist Hayrapet Arakelyan in 2016. A particular interest is repertoire typical from the 1920s and beyond, merging the world of jazz and classical.
Florian Noack was a tutor at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, teaches at the Miami Piano Festival Academy 2020, and gives master classes on a regular basis.
Hayrapet Arakelyan, saxophone
He continues his studies at the "G. Rossini" in Pesaro with Maestro Federico Mondelci, obtaining a II level degree in Saxophone with 11O cum laude. In 2010 he graduated from the CRR of Boulogne Billancourt (Paris) with Maestro Jean Michel Goury, obtaining the Premier Prix à l'unanimitè in Saxophone and Chamber Music.
In 2011, together with the pianist Marco Vergini, he won the prestigious "Francesco Cilea" Chamber Music Competition in Palmi (RC) and, in 2012, the "Salieri-Zinetti" International Chamber Music Competition in Verona (1st Prize and the New York Recital Debut Special Award).
He performs as a soloist with the Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pesaro Conservatory Orchestra and the Romanian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.
He collaborates with the Bochumer Symphoniker, the Bruno Maderna Orchestra, the Kammeroper Koln, the Scatola Sonora Ensemble.
From 2015 to 2024 he held the position of baritone saxophone in the "Signum Saxophon Quartett" with which he performed in the most prestigious Italian and international
theatres,such as:
"Teatro Carlo Felice" - Genoa, "Teatro Lirico" - Cagliari, "Teatro Petruzzelli" - Bari,
"Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli" - Cremona, "Teatro del Verme" - Milan, "Teatro della
Pergola" - Florence, "Salone Estense" - Varese, "Sala Filarmonica" - Trento, "Auditorium del
Parco" - L'Aquila, "Aula Magna" - La Sapienza University of Rome, "Seoul Arts Center" -
Seoul, "Tonhalle" - Zurich, "St. Petersburg Philharmonic " - St. Petersburg, "Concert Hall
Zaryad'ye " - Moscow, "City Recital Hall" - Sydney, "Tonhalle" -Dusseldorf,
"Konzerthaus" - Berlin, "Elbphilarmonie" - Hamburg, "Filarmonia Norodowa" -
Warsaw, "Mozarteum " - Salzburg.
Since 2022 he is member of the "Fratres Trio " with Fedor Rudin (violinist) and Florian Noack (piano).
Since November 2024, he has been working as a professor in Saxophone at Conservatory of
Music " Giuseppe Martucci" in Salerno (Italy).
In 2020 he recorded the CD "Echoes" with the record label "Deutsche Grammophon", in 2021 the CD "Starry Night" and in 2024 the CD "Chameleon" with the record label "Berlin Classics".
