Sasha Rozhdestvensky is considered to be one of today’s finest Russian violinists. Yehudi Menuhin pronounced him to be “one of the most talented and refined violinists of his generation”.
He has appeared internationally with leading ensembles such as the Bayerische Staatsorchester, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of “La Scala”, Mariinsky Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic, St.Petersburg Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra…
Among the conductors with whom Sasha Rozhdestvensky has worked are Vladimir Ashkenazy, Andrey Boreyko, Jean Claude Casadesus, Valery Gergiev, Theodor Guschlbauer, Vernon Handley, Vladimir Jurowski, Valery Polyansky, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Simonov, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Gerard Schwartz, Christopher Warren-Green…
Sasha’s recordings include the Concerto Grosso No.6 by Alfred Schnittke with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic (Chandos). He premiered this concerto, which was written especially for him and Viktoria Postnikova. He subsequently recorded the Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 and Glazunov’s Concerto with Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the State Symphony Capella of Russia (Nimbus). Complete works of Tchaikovsky for violin and piano with Josiane Marfurt including the world premiere of ‘Oh, chante encore’ (Delos), the Complete Violin chamber works of Ravel with Josiane Marfurt (Praga digitals). This CD received the ‘Choc of Classica’. Complete Shostakovich violin and piano music with Jeremy Menuhin for the FHR in the UK, Myaskovsky, Shebalin and Nechaev sonatas world premiere recordings for the FHR with Viktoria Postnikova and most recently a world premiere of John Mayer’s Second Violin Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Debashish Chaudhuri.
Sasha Rozhdestvensky has played at many prestigeous festivals like BBC Proms, Tanglewood, Schleswig-Holstein, Gstaad, Colmar, Ravinia, Florida, Lockenhaus, Montreux, Rheingau, and played at such halls as the Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Barbican and Festival Halls London, Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonie, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Salle Pleyel et le Théâtre du Chatelet Paris, Mann Auditorium in Tel-Aviv, la Scala…
Among his chamber music partners are Marc Coppey, Gary Hoffman, Steven Isserlis, Josiane Marfurt, Jeremy Menuhin, Kun Woo Paik, Michel Portal, Viktoria Postnikova, Michael Rudy.
Sasha Rozhdestvensky’s dedication to contemporary music is highlighted through close contacts with several eminent composers, such as Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Arvo Pärt and Ian Venables.
He also devotes time to the performance of traditional Latin American music together primarily with the instrumental group ‘Ambar’, whose recordings include El Diablo Suelto (Delos) and O voo da mosca (FHR). Recently the group premiered a Violin Concerto written for Sasha by Francisco Gonzalez with the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia.
Sasha studied at the Central Music School in Moscow, the Moscow Conservatory, the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal College of Music in London.
Sasha Rozhdestvensky is a professor at the Royal College of Music in London and at the Haute école de musique de Genève.