Meet ignat solzhenitsyn biography

Recognized as one of today's most gifted artists, and enjoying an active career as both conductor and pianist, Ignat Solzhenitsyn's lyrical and poignant interpretations have won him critical acclaim throughout the world.

Principal Guest Conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Laureate of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Ignat Solzhenitsyn is much in demand as a guest conductor, having recently led the symphonies of Baltimore, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Dallas, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Nashville, Phoenix, Seattle, and Toronto, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Czech National Symphony, as well as many of the major orchestras in Russia including the Mariinsky Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic, and the Moscow Symphony.  He has partnered with such world-renowned soloists as Richard Goode, Gary Graffman, Steven Isserlis, Leila Josefowicz, Sylvia McNair, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Garrick Ohlsson, Mstislav Rostr

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Classical: The other Solzhenitsyn

All concert pianists walk in the shadow of gods, but few are as darkly overhung as the year-old Russian who will man his London debut tonight. Keyboard deities - at least two of whom will be in attendance - are only a part of it; the expectations of Mstislav Rostropovich, who supervised his musical start, företräda a more serious utmaning. But this pianist also bears a unique burden, in that his father just happens to be one of the greatest political heroes of the century.

"When inom began performing in public, I used to feel that the audience had come out of curiosity," says Ignat Solzhenitsyn. "And I suppose that curiosity will always be there. It's inevitable: it comes with the territory." To meet this boundingly eager young man, who apologises in a quintessentially American manner for smoking during the interview, is to banish all thoughts of Russian gloom. And when our talk threatens to get stuck on the doings of Alexander, Ignat politely but

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Soviet-Russian author and dissident (–)

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn^[a][b]ⓘ (11 December – 3 August )^[6][7] was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature".^[8] His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.^[9]

Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti-religious campaign in the s and remained devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church. However, he initially lost his faith in Christianity, became an atheist, and embraced Marxism–Leninism. While serving as a captain in the Red Army during World War II, Solzhenitsyn was arr