Denis Matsuev

Today Denis Matsuev is a welcome guest of the central concert halls of the world, a permanent participant of the largest music festivals, constant partner of the leading symphonic orchestras of Russia, Europe, North America and Asian countries. Regardless of exclusive demand abroad, Denis Matsuev considers his priority to develop philharmonic art in Russian regions and presents a significant part of his concert programmes, especially the premier ones, in Russia.

Among Denis Matsuev’s stage partners are the worldwide famous collectives of the USA, Germany, Great Britain, France; such as the New York Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris as well as the Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony and the Vienna Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Belgian National Orchestra and others.

Close creative contacts link Denis Matsuev with outstanding conductors of our time, for instance, Valery Gergiev, Yuri Temirkanov, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, Paavo Järvi, Charles Dutoit, Alan Gilbert, Vladimir Fedoseev, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Spivakov, Leonard Slatkin, Gianandrea Noseda, Kristjan Järvi, Neeme Järvi, and many others.

The musician participates in worldwide famous festivals: the Edinburgh International Festival (Great Britain), “Schleswig-Holstein” and “Rheingau” (Germany), the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), “Ravinia” and “Hollywood Bowl” (USA), the “Stars of the White Nights” in Saint-Petersburg (Russia), the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland) and others.

Denis Matsuev is the soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic since 1995. He started offering his annual personal season ticket the “Soloist Denis Matsuev” in 2004. The ticket includes the performances of the pianist together with the leading orchestras of Russia and foreign countries, and the distinctive feature of the cycle is the preservation of the availability of concerts for the season ticket holders.

For many years already, Denis Matsuev is a director and inspirer of several music festivals, educational outreach projects.

Since 2004, he holds a “Stars on Baikal” in his home town, Irkutsk, with the continued success; and since 2005 is a creative head of the Music festival Crescendo, which programme was met with a huge success in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Pskov, Tel Aviv, Paris, and New York.

In 2010, it was proclaimed the year of Russia in France and the Year of France in Russia, Denis Matsuev accepted the invitation of the French colleagues and became one of the heads of the Annecy Music Festival, intending to bring together music cultures of two countries.

In 2012, Denis Matsuev became the artistic director of the I International “Astana Piano Passion” Festival and Competition for young pianists. In 2013, as the artistic director, he led the competition-festival Sberbank DEBUT in Kiеv.

In 2016, Denis Matsuev as the artistic director and chairman of the Organizing Committee held the First international competition for young pianists, Grand Piano Competition, in Moscow.

Denis Matsuev is the art-director of the Sergei Rachmaninov Foundation.

The meaningful event for the musician is receiving one of the most prestigious world music prizes – the Shostakovich’s Prize, which he was awarded in 2010. According to the Order of the President of Russia in June of the same year, Denis Matsuev became a laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Arts, and in May 2011 the pianist received the title of the People’s Artist of Russia. Denis Matsuev became an Honorary Professor of the Moscow State University in December 2011. Since 2012, Denis Matsuev was the head of the Public Council under the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation.