CAMERATA BALCANICA

Fedor Rudin, violinist and conductor, a grandson of the famous Russian avant-garde composer Edison Denisov, is a laureate of the Premio Paganini Competition in Genoa and the George Enescu Competition in Bucharest. He studied under the renowned pedagogues Miroslav Roussine and Svetlin Roussev. A graduate under Zakhar Bron at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and Pierre Amoyal at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Kunstuniversität Graz under Professor Boris Kuschnir. As a soloist, Fedor Rudin has performed in world-famous venues and played with renowned orchestras under such conductors as Vladimir Jurowski, Darrell Ang, Lorenzo Viotti, and Christoph Poppen. As concertmaster of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic, he has collaborated with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta, and Andris Nelsons. Fedor Rudin is a founding member of the Fratres Trio. In 2021, he released his newest album Heritage, featuring compositions by Russian and French authors, for the Orchid Classics label. His album Reflets was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards. Fedor Rudin plays a 1779 Lorenzo Storioni violin (Cremona), from the German Fund for Musical Instruments.

Camerata Balcania, a regional chamber orchestra composed of the most talented young musicians from the Balkan region, grew out of the ArtLink Young Virtuosos Ensemble. The orchestra was formed for the first time within the Balkan-Višegrad Cultural Bridge project, supported by the International Višegrad Fund. Artists such as Benjamin Haemhouts, who was the first chief conductor of the ensemble, István Várdai, Robert Lakatoš, Maria Machowska, Giorgio Mandolesi, Pavel Doležal, Fedor Rudin, and Jan Vogler have worked and performed with the regional ArtLink ensemble. The mission of the ensemble is to present the best young artists from the region, and particularly artists from the region of the Western Balkans, through the prism of successful young people who with their prominent example and dedication demonstrate recognized results achieved through joint cooperation and creativity. The orchestra represents the best of the Balkans with its creative capacity, combining artistic excellence through the synergies of different ethnic specificities, all united in a unique artistic expression. The founder and Artistic Director of the ensemble is pianist Jovanka Višekruna Janković. Also, within the ensemble is the ArtLink – Balkan Sextet, which performed in Berlin on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War, organized by the Franco-German Youth Office.