Dimitri Maslennikov

Russian cellist, born 1980 in St. Petersburg.
Dimitri MASLENNIKOV born in Saint Petersburg in 1980. From the age of eleven, he wins the International Soloists Competition in Moscow, the Czech International Competition in Prague and became laureate of the Tchaikovsky Competition and that of the Rostropovich. He studied at the Paris Conservatory from the age of fourteen, from where he graduated with a unanimous First Prize. From then on, he multiplied collaborations prestigious internationally and several recordings including the two concertos by Dimitri Shostakovich with the NDR Hamburg Orchestra under the direction of
Christoph Eschenbach (Phoenix Editions-Naxos) in 2006, a record hailed by the international criticism.
Later in 2010, the recording of “Variations on a Rococo Theme” by Tchaikovsky, will mark his debut at the Berlin Philharmonic and will open the doors for him festivals in Schlesswig Holstein and Reinghau. He continues his career international success: World Premiere of the cello concerto (Marc-André Dalbavie), with the Ensemble Intercontemporain of New York in 2008,
in 2012 his debut in China was crowned with great success with the orchestra of “National Center of the Performing Arts” under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach.
At the end of summer 2012, a fruitful collaboration with the Orchestra began Saint Petersburg Philharmonic and Maestro Youry Temirkanov.
Among these different projects we will note the following: concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London, National Symphony Orchestra, Washington.
He plays a Gennaro Gagliano cello from 1758