One of the most compelling and
charismatic Russian musicians of the next generation, Evgeny
Rumyantsev blends dazzling virtuoso skill and depth of interpretation with
his powerful temperament and innovative cello sound. With his staggeringly
universal artistic approach, he has succeeded in combining performances
with various orchestras and recital appearances in chamber music along with
highly diverse ensembles. His skill as a musician received
the approbation of Mstislav Rostropovich, at whose public
tutorials the young cellist frequently performed.
Evgeny Rumyantsev was born in Moscow in 1984. Having begun to learn
the cello at the age of eight, he continued to study music
at the Central School of Music of the Moscow Tchaikovsky
Conservatoire. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire in 2007, and
in 2010 he undertook a postgraduate study under Professor Natalia
Shakhovskaya, People’s Artist of the USSR. Rumyantsev has been
a grant-recipient of and participated in various programmes run
by the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation, the Mstislav Rostropovich
Foundation (Nikolai Myaskovsky Grant) and the Russian Performing Arts
Foundation. He has taken master-classes from Mstislav Rostropovich, David
Geringas, Eberhard Finke and Sergei Roldugin.
Evgeny Rumyantsev has been a prize-winner at several international
competitions, among them the XIII Tchaikovsky International Competition
(Moscow, 2007) and the Aram Khachaturian International Cello Competition
(Yerevan, 2010). Frequently appears in recital, performing throughout
Russia, the CIS, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Great Britain,
the Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Lithuania, Finland, Israel,
Tunisia, Algeria, Japan and South Korea. Rumyantsev has taken part
in numerous international festivals including the Usedomer
Musikfestival, the Juventus Music Festival, the Vladimir Horowitz and
Mstislav Rostropovich Festivals, Moscow Autumn, Maxima-Fest, Ars Longa, Days
of Mozart in Moscow, A Tribute to Sviatoslav Knushevitsky,
Moscow’s international cello festival Viva Cello, a festival
marking one hundred and twenty-five years since the birth of Sergei
Kozolupov, Music of the Stars, Green Noise,
the Sviatoslav Richter Foundation Festival and the DMZ Festival
in South Korea.
The musician’s repertoire includes almost the entire solo and
chamber music repertoire composed for cello. Rumyantsev has recorded on CD,
television and radio. He has taught at the Moscow Conservatoire since 2010
in addition to running master-classes in Russia, Europe, Japan and
South Korea. Since 2012 he has collaborated with the agency Art-Brand. He
is currently a soloist with the St Petersburg House of Music and
Gosconcert and a member of the Association of Prize-Winners
of the Tchaikovsky International Competition and
the International Union of Music Workers. In 2012 Evgeny
Rumyantsev was invited to join the jury of the Symphony
international competition (Volgograd).