Beethoven Duo

The biographical:Fedor Elesin, in 1983 in St. Petersburg born, recieved at the age of 5 years his first cello lessons. After the participation in the first Masterclass with maestro Mstislav Rostropovich in 1989 he decided the 6-year-old to smash the development of an occupational musician. Already during his school hours from 1989 to 1998 Fedor Elesin gave the first public concerts and also he played in 1996 by order of the Russian television (" the First canal ") the Schostakovich cello concert No. 1 with the state St.-Petersburg Symphony orchestra.As a student of the High School of Music and Theatre in Hamburg he had the luck to study up to his certificate in 2006 under the miraculous musician, cellists and teacher - Prof. Wolfgang Mehlhorn. In this time Fedor Elesin gained numerous victories with national and international competitions. Nevertheless, beside six first prices and other honourings were quite decisively the rental of a Gand cello of the German endowment "music life" and the last Grand Prize of the IBLA foundation in Italy.In 2006, under the artistic management of maestro Marcello Abbado, originated with the pianist Alina Kabanova...Alina Kabanova, in 1982 in the Ukrainian Sevastopol born, began her musical education with Natalia Pereferkovitch. Her first public concert gave them at the age of six. At the age of nine years she already recieved prices and honourings, was several times a soloist with the Beethoven's fifth piano concert and recieved the special price of Young Artists of the Moscow conservatoire.There followed numerous international prices: among other things piano competition in Senigallia (1995 / I),Vladimir's Krainjew competition (Charkow / in 1996), London piano competition (1998), international Poulenc competition (1999 / D). Famous orchestras like the Krimer State Philharmonic concert hall, Orchèstre Symphonique de Lyons, Cologne Sinfonietta obliged she as a soloist. Since 1995 played you regularly Tourneen in Russia, the USA and Europe, only in Germany gave you since 1999 more than 1000 concerts.In 2001 she won the conveyor price music of the " society for the support of "Westphalian Cultural Work " and became in 2004 a scholarship holder of the Rubinstein's academy of Dusseldorf.Alina Kabanova studied among other things in the college of music Münster and continues nowadays her studies in the High School of Music and Theatre in Hamburg with Prof. Evgeny Korolov. Together with the cellist Fedor Elesin she founded under the artistic management of maestro Marcello Abbado "Beethoven Duo".