Biography
1932 | born in Moscow on 16th December |
1945-1950 | Studied at the Moscow Choral School |
1950-1955 | Studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Yuri Shaporin (composition) and Yakov Flier (piano) |
1958 | Married to Maya Plisetskaya, the prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre |
1960 | World première of the ballet "The Little Humpbacked Horse" in Moscow |
1961 | World première of the opera "Not Only Love" (first version) in Moscow |
1963 | World première of "Naughty Limericks" (1st concert for orchestra) at the Festival "Warsaw Autumn", conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky |
1964-1969 | Professor of composition at the Moscow Conservatory |
1967 | World première of the ballet "Carmen Suite" in Moscow |
1968 | Refused to sign an open letter which was to sanction the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia World première of "The Chimes" (2nd concert for orchestra) in New York, conductor Leonard Bernstein |
since 1969 | Free-lance composer |
1972 | World première of the ballet "Anna Karenina" in Moscow Opening of the Pokrovsky Chamber Music Theatre with the opera "Not Only Love" (second version) Recipient of the USSR State Prize |
1973 | Succeeded Dmitri Shostakovich as president of the Union of Composers of Russian Federation (since 1989 honorary president) |
1976 | Correspondent member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts |
1977 | World première of the opera "Dead Souls" in Moscow, conductor Yuri Temirkanov |
1982 | Attended the Munich Piano Summer for the first time |
1983 | Honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts of the GDR |
1984 | Recipient of the Lenin Prize |
1985 | Honorary member of the "International Music Council" |
1988 | World première of the Russian Lithurgy "The Sealed Angel" in Moscow |
1989 | Member of the Interregional Group which sympathized with "perestroika" Member of the Berlin Academy of Arts World première of "Khorovody" (4th concert for orchestra) in Tokyo |
1990 | World première of "Old Russian Circus Music" (3rd concert for orchestra) in Chicago, conductor Lorin Maazel |
1992 | Shchedrin lives alternately in Munich and Moscow Received the Russian State Prize from President Boris Yeltsin |
1993 | Recipient of the Dmitri Shostakovich Prize |
1994 | World première of the opera "Lolita" in Stockholm, conductor Mstislav Rostropovich World première of the "Concerto for violoncello and orchestra" ("Sotto voce concerto") in London, Mstislav Rostropovich (violoncello), Seiji Ozawa (conductor) World première of the "Trumpet Concerto" in Pittsburgh |
1995 | Crystal Awards, World Economic Forum, Davos |
1997 | Honorary professor at the Moscow Conservatory |
1998 | World première of "Four Russian Songs" (5th concert for orchestra) in London World première of "Concerto Cantabile" in Zurich, conductor Mariss Jansons |
1999 | World première of the 5th Piano Concerto in Los Angeles |
2001 | Final nomination fort the "Grammy Awards" for the best contemporary composition ("Concerto Cantabile") |
2002 | "Composer of the Year" of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra World première of Symphonic Etudes for Orchestra "Dialogues with Shostakovich" in Pittsburgh, conductor Mariss Jansons World première of the opera "The Enchanted Wanderer" in New York, conductor Lorin Maazel Order for Service to the Russian State third degree |
2003 | World première of the 6th Piano Concerto "Concerto lontano" in Amsterdam |
2005 | Honorary professor at the St Petersburg State Conservatory |
2006 | World première of the Russian choral opera "Boyarina Morozova" in Moscow |
2007 | Order for Service to the Russian State second degree |
2008 | Honorary professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing German music award "Echo Klassik 2008" for the choral opera "Boyarina Morozova" in the category "Opera recording of the year" World première of the “Lyric Scenes” for string quartet at the 57th ARD International Music Competition in Munich Première of the stage performance of the opera “The Enchanted Wanderer” in the production of Alexei Stepanyuk in St Petersburg World première of the “Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament” in Munich, conductor Mariss Jansons Publication of the first autobiographic book "Autobiographical notes" in Moscow |
2009 | The Russian Theatre Award “Golden Mask” in the category “Best compositional work for opera” for the opera "The Enchanted Wanderer" World première of the symphonic fresco for orchestra “Lithuanian Saga” at the „Vilnius Festival 2009“ (Lithuania) World première of the 7 Impromptus for piano „Artless Pages“ by Yuja Wang at the Verbier Festival 2009 (Switzerland) World première of the „Journey to Eisenstadt“ for violin and piano in London |
2010 | Nomination for the “Grammy 2011” in the category “Best Classical Contemporary Composition” (A Composer’s Award) for the opera "The Enchanted Wanderer" World première of the „Oboe Concerto“ in Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (Netherlands) |
2011 | World première of the „Concert Etude“ at the XIVth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow World première of the Double concerto „Romantic Offering“ for piano, violoncello and orchestra with Martha Argerich and Misha Maisky in Lucerne (Switzerland) |
2012 | World première of the dramatic scene for soprano and symphonic orchestra “Cleopatra and the Snake” at the “Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2012” (Austria) „Moscow Award in Literature and the Arts 2012“ for the Russian choral opera „Boyarina Morozova“ Awarded with the Russian Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” 4th class |
2013 | World première of the opera "Left Hander" on the new stage of the Mariinsky Theatre Awarded with the Prize "Baltic Star" |
2014 | World première of the orchestra Work "Moscow - Petushki" at Verbier Festival |
2014 | The opera "Not Love Alone" gets the Golden Sophite in St.Petersburg |
2017 | Vladimir Putin awarded Rodion Shchedrin with the Order of Honour |