Miriam Prandi e Alexey Zhilin
Italian cellist Miriam Prandi and Russian cellist Alexey Zhilin bring together two powerful and complementary artistic voices, shaped by international careers as soloists, chamber musicians and orchestral leaders.
Prandi, winner of the overall First Prize at the Rahn Musikpreis in Zurich, has appeared as soloist at Tonhalle Zürich, Teatro alla Scala and with orchestras including NOSPR Katowice, Gstaad Festival Orchestra, Haydn Orchestra, Armenian Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Berner Symphonieorchester and Filarmonica Toscanini.
She has worked with conductors such as Teodor Currentzis, Andrey Boreyko, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Michele Spotti, Neeme Järvi, Michele Mariotti, Gianluca Marcianò and Donato Renzetti.
Her recording of Bach’s Six Cello Suites, released by Fuga Libera/Outhere Music, has attracted international attention, including an important review in The Strad by critic Robin Stowell.
Zhilin, trained in St Petersburg by Anatolii Nikitin, has won more than fifteen international competitions, including the Johannes Brahms Competition and the Dr. Luis Sigall Competition.
As soloist he has performed in Europe and Asia with the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic and Novaya Rossiya, under Kent Nagano, Teodor Currentzis, Darrell Ang and Dimitris Botinis.
Together, Prandi and Zhilin offer a compelling cello dialogue, combining virtuosity, depth of sound and intense poetic imagination.