Alexy Pudinov Opens Rising Stars Series

The Rising Stars Piano Series kicks off its spring season at the Southampton Cultural Center (SCC) on Saturday, April 9, with a 6 p.m. concert by Pianofest alum Alexy Pudinov, who will perform works by Brahms, J.S. Bach/Silotti, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff and Tjiok.

Pudinov is a multi-talented musician whose creative vision encompasses a performance career as well as arts leadership. The CD “New Bahnen” (2021) is his second release on the Kaleidos Musikeditionen label and follows his critically acclaimed piano duo debut “Evocation of Dance” (2019) with pianist Katerina Moskaleva. Founder of “AD festival Days,” a chamber music festival in Manchester UK, Pudinov is also a co-founder of Europe’s leading chamber music initiatives including prizewinning Piano Duo TWO4PIANO and the Frankfurt Piano Trio.

Pudinov began his early music education in his native Russia and his commitment to the value of music education is reflected in the music degrees he holds: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt (Germany), Royal College of Music London, Royal Northern College of Music Manchester (UK).

Pudinov has collaborated with some of the world’s leading musicians such as Lara Boschkor, Jonathan Crow, Benedict Klöckner, Johannes Moser, Konstantin Soukhovetski and the Eliot Quartet. In recent seasons he performed on three continents and attended numerous prominent festivals. Competition awards led him to Canada, the United States, Finland, Germany, Austria, Italy and to the Czech Republic. He won the “Gershwin Best Performance Prize” 2015 in New York, the Steinway Prize 2014, the First LMN Menuhin Prize 2016 in Frankfurt and the First Prize of the North West International Piano Ensemble Competition 2018 in Vancouver, Canada.

The concert will be held at Southampton Cultural Center’s Levitas Center for the Arts, 25 Pond Lane, Southampton. Tickets are $20 at scc-arts.org ($25 at the door). Students under 21 are admitted free. The Rising Stars Piano Series continues on Saturday, May 7, with Matthew and Gvantsa Griswold; and on Saturday, May 28, with Jacopo and Maddalena Giacopuzzi.