Il pluripremiato clarinettista americano di origine ucraina Alexander Bedenko è apparso in recital alla Weill Hall della Carnegie Hall di New York , sempre a New York al Metropolitan Museum of Art e alla Steinway Hall, al Kennedy Center di Washington e all’UNESCO a Parigi. Laureato presso il prestigioso The Curtis Institute of Music, Alexander Bedenko ha collaborato con artisti come Vladimir Spivakov, Christoph Eschenbach, Nikolai Lugansky, Kirill Gernstein, Daniel Hope, Nabuko Imai, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Gautier Capucon, Vilde Frang e con i quartetti d’archi Borodin, Jerusalem, Alma, Ariel, Endellion, Zemlinsky e Orion.

“Timbrally, the performances are ravishing. Bedenko’s tone is the most luxurious velvet” Gramophone. December 2019 

 

“Bedenko provides a passionate push and pull of emotional phrasing with glowing warmth.” Andrea Vos Rochefort, The International Clarinet Association. August 2020

Tra le sue apparizioni solistiche figurano l’orchestra della Radio Nazionale Rumena, le orchestre Sinfoniche Nazionali dell’Uzbekistan e dell’Ucraina, l’Orchestra della Fondazione Arturo Toscanini, l’Orchestra da camera Virtuosi di Mosca e recital di musica da camera ai prestigiosi festival di Colmar, Verbier, Spoleto, Lerici, Malta, Miami, Mozaic e Schubertiade.  Nel 2019, Alexander Bedenko ha pubblicato il suo acclamato album di debutto su Orchid Classics con Kyril Zlotnikov e Itamar Golan, nonché l’album “Finding Home” su Sony Classics nel marzo 2022. Nel 2021, l’edizione Muzyka ha pubblicato in tutto il mondo le trascrizioni di Alexander Bedenko dell’album di brani di Čajkovskij per clarinetto e pianoforte.

“…with the long-reaching, lyrical lines given to the clarinet, Bedenko is like a gentle, quietly radiant beacon guiding one’s ear effortlessly into the emotional center of whatever is happening in the music at any given time.”  David Patrick Stearns, ArtsJournal. April 2020

Più volte clarinettista principale della Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Bedenko è stato invitato da Riccardo Muti come clarinettista principale ospite per il tour europeo della Chicago Symphony Orchestra e si è esibito come primo clarinettista ospite con la London Symphony Orchestra, la Philharmonia Orchestra (Londra), la Philadelphia Orchestra e la Cleveland Orchestra diretta da Franz Welser-Möst. Alexander Bedenko è un artista di fiati di Selmer Paris e D’Addario.

The multi award-winning, Ukrainian-born American clarinetist Alexander Bedenko has appeared in recitals at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Steinway Hall, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C and UNESCO in Paris.

Graduated from the prestigious The Curtis Institute of Music, Alexander Bedenko collaborated with artists such as Vladimir Spivakov, Christoph Eschenbach, Nikolai Lugansky, Kirill Gernstein, Daniel Hope, Nabuko Imai, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Gautier Capucon and with the Borodin, Jerusalem, Alma, Ariel, Endellion, Zemlinsky and Orion string quartets.

“Timbrally, the performances are ravishing. Bedenko’s tone is the most luxurious velvet” Gramophone. December 2019 

 

“Bedenko provides a passionate push and pull of emotional phrasing with glowing warmth.” Andrea Vos Rochefort, The International Clarinet Association. August 2020

Solo appearances include the Romanian National Radio orchestra, Uzbekistan and Ukraine National Symphony orchestras, the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra and chamber music recitals at the Colmar, Verbier, Spoleto, Lerici, Malta, Miami, Mozaic and Schubertiade festivals.

In 2019, Alexander Bedenko released his acclaimed debut album on Orchid classics with Kyril Zlotnikov and Itamar Golan as well as “Finding Home” album on Sony classics in March 2022.

“…with the long-reaching, lyrical lines given to the clarinet, Bedenko is like a gentle, quietly radiant beacon guiding one’s ear effortlessly into the emotional center of whatever is happening in the music at any given time.”  David Patrick Stearns, ArtsJournal. April 2020

In 2021, Muzyka Edition has published worldwide Alexander Bedenko’s transcriptions of Tchaikovsky album of pieces for clarinet and piano.

A former Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra principal clarinetist, Alexander Bedenko was invited by Riccardo Muti as guest principal clarinetist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra European tour and has performed as guest principal with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra

(London), The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst.

Alexander Bedenko is a Selmer Paris and D’Addario woodwinds Artist.