Alexander Rublev
In the orchestra since 2025
Aleksander Rublev was born in Moscow in 2005. He graduated from the Gnessin Moscow Secondary Special Music School (the trumpet class of Professor Vladimir Pushkarev), and in 2023 he studied at the Karlsruhe Higher School of Music (the class of Professor Reinhold Friedrich). Since 2024, he has been studying at the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory (the trumpet class of Alexey Belyaev).
Aleksander Rublev participated in seminars by Sergey Nakariakov (2017, 2019, 2021), Guy Touvron (2017), Vladimir Kafelnikov (2017), Arturo Sandoval (2018), Allen Vizzotti (2018), Matthias Höfs (2019), Gabriel Campos (2019), Carlos Benetó (2019), Kristian Steenstrup (2019), Evgeny Guryev (2020), Vladislav Lavrik (2021), Thomas Hammes (2021), Jeroen Berwaerts (2022), Immanuel Richter (2022), Friedrich Reinhold (2022).
Winner of numerous international competitions, including the gold medal at the Vienna International Music Competition (Austria, 2019), the III Prize at the Concertino Prague International Competition (Czech Republic, 2020), the I Prize at the Ictus International Music Competition (USA, 2020), the II Prize at the Bucharest Wind Competition (Romania, 2020), the Grand Prix of the International Correspondence Competition-Festival Le Ciel De Paris (France, 2020), the first prize at the King’s Peak International Music Competition (Canada, 2020), the First Prize at the 94th Leopold Bellan International Music Competition (France, 2020), I prizes at the Ise-Shima International Online Competition for Young Musicians (Japan, 2021), I prizes at the Cap Ferret Music Open Competition (France, 2021 and 2022), the First Prize at the American Musical Talent Competition (2022), and many others. Since 2018, he has been a scholarship holder at the Yvette Voronova New Names Charitable Foundation and a Grant holder from the Mayor of Moscow (2020).
Since 2021, he has been a soloist of the St Petersburg House of Music. In 2024 he worked in the orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre. Since 2025, he has been a guest and then a full-time artist of the musicAeterna Orchestra.
He has performed as a soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bad Reichenhall (Germany, 2019), Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina (Florence, 2019), the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev (2020), the Symphony Orchestra of Czech Radio (2020), the Tchaikovsky National Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments (2020), and many others. He participated in major international festivals and performed concerts in the Netherlands, Argentina, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, and many Russian cities.
musicAeterna orchestra events
György Kurtág (b. 1926)
Songs of Despair and Sorrow for mixed choir with instrumental accompaniment, Op. 18 (1980–1994)
So weary, so wretched to the words of Mikhail Lermontov (1840)
Night, an empty street, a lamp, a drug-store to the words of Alexander Blok (1912)
Blue Evening to the words of Sergei Yesenin (1925)
Where can I go to in this January? to the words of Osip Mandelstam (1937)
The Crucifixion to the words of Anna Akhmatova (1939)
It’s time to the words of Marina Tsvetaeva (1941)
Grabstein für Stephan | Gravestone for Stephan for guitar and instrumental ensemble, Op. 15c
(1989)
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Ein deutsches Requiem | A German Requiem for soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra, Op. 45 (1865–1869)
Selig sind, die da Leid tragen | Blessed are those who weep, for they will be comforted
Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras | For all flesh is like grass
Herr, lehre doch mich, dass ein Ende mit mir haben muss | Lord, teach me that I must have an end
Wie lieblich sind Deine Wohnungen, Herr Zebaoth! | How lovely is Thy dwelling place, O Lord of hosts!
Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit | Ye now therefore have sorrow
Denn wir haben hier keine bleibende Statt | For here we have no continuing city
Selig sind die Toten, die in dem Herrn sterben | Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord
The programme is subject to change.
Performers:
Iveta Simonyan — soprano
Vladislav Chizhov — baritone
The musicAeterna Choir and Orchestra
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
György Kurtág (b. 1926)
Songs of Despair and Sorrow for mixed choir with instrumental accompaniment, Op. 18 (1980–1994)
So weary, so wretched to the words of Mikhail Lermontov (1840)
Night, an empty street, a lamp, a drug-store to the words of Alexander Blok (1912)
Blue Evening to the words of Sergei Yesenin (1925)
Where can I go to in this January? to the words of Osip Mandelstam (1937)
The Crucifixion to the words of Anna Akhmatova (1939)
It’s time to the words of Marina Tsvetaeva (1941)
Grabstein für Stephan | Gravestone for Stephan for guitar and instrumental ensemble, Op. 15c
(1989)
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Ein deutsches Requiem | A German Requiem for soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra, Op. 45 (1865–1869)
Selig sind, die da Leid tragen | Blessed are those who weep, for they will be comforted
Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras | For all flesh is like grass
Herr, lehre doch mich, dass ein Ende mit mir haben muss | Lord, teach me that I must have an end
Wie lieblich sind Deine Wohnungen, Herr Zebaoth! | How lovely is Thy dwelling place, O Lord of hosts!
Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit | Ye now therefore have sorrow
Denn wir haben hier keine bleibende Statt | For here we have no continuing city
Selig sind die Toten, die in dem Herrn sterben | Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord
The programme is subject to change.
Performers:
Iveta Simonyan — soprano
Vladislav Chizhov — baritone
The musicAeterna Choir and Orchestra
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
György Kurtág (b. 1926)
Songs of Despair and Sorrow for mixed choir with instrumental accompaniment, Op. 18 (1980–1994)
So weary, so wretched to the words of Mikhail Lermontov (1840)
Night, an empty street, a lamp, a drug-store to the words of Alexander Blok (1912)
Blue Evening to the words of Sergei Yesenin (1925)
Where can I go to in this January? to the words of Osip Mandelstam (1937)
The Crucifixion to the words of Anna Akhmatova (1939)
It’s time to the words of Marina Tsvetaeva (1941)
Grabstein für Stephan | Gravestone for Stephan for guitar and instrumental ensemble, Op. 15c
(1989)
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Ein deutsches Requiem | A German Requiem for soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra, Op. 45 (1865–1869)
Selig sind, die da Leid tragen | Blessed are those who weep, for they will be comforted
Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras | For all flesh is like grass
Herr, lehre doch mich, dass ein Ende mit mir haben muss | Lord, teach me that I must have an end
Wie lieblich sind Deine Wohnungen, Herr Zebaoth! | How lovely is Thy dwelling place, O Lord of hosts!
Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit | Ye now therefore have sorrow
Denn wir haben hier keine bleibende Statt | For here we have no continuing city
Selig sind die Toten, die in dem Herrn sterben | Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord
The programme is subject to change.
Performers:
Iveta Simonyan — soprano
Vladislav Chizhov — baritone
The musicAeterna Choir and Orchestra
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
Vocal and orchestral numbers from the works:
Les Indes galantes (1735), an opera-ballet
Castor et Pollux (1737), a lyrical tragedy
Les fêtes d’Hébé, ou Les talens lyriques (1739), an opera-ballet
Platée ou Junon jalouse (1745), a lyrical comedy
Zaïs (1748), a heroic pastoral
Zoroastre (1749), a lyrical tragedy
Abaris ou les Boréades (1763–1764), a lyrical tragedy
The programme is subject to change.
Performers:
The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
Artists of the Anton Rubinstein Academy
Musical Director and Conductor – Teodor Currentzis
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
Vocal and orchestral numbers from the works:
Les Indes galantes (1735), an opera-ballet
Castor et Pollux (1737), a lyrical tragedy
Les fêtes d’Hébé, ou Les talens lyriques (1739), an opera-ballet
Platée ou Junon jalouse (1745), a lyrical comedy
Zaïs (1748), a heroic pastoral
Zoroastre (1749), a lyrical tragedy
Abaris ou les Boréades (1763–1764), a lyrical tragedy
The programme is subject to change.
Performers:
The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
Artists of the Anton Rubinstein Academy
Musical Director and Conductor – Teodor Currentzis