Wladimir Borodin
He is an Austrian pianist. He was born in Ukraine and has lived in Vienna since 2008.
After graduating from the Donetsk Music Academy in Ukraine as a concert pianist with a master's degree and postgraduate diploma, he continued his training at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Avedis Kouyoumdjian (specializing in piano chamber music) and with Prof. Charles Spencer (specializing in vocal accompaniment). He specialized in vocal and instrumental accompaniment as well as chamber music.
He was a participant and prizewinner in numerous national and international competitions, such as the Theodor Storm Piano Prize, the North Frisian Song Prize, the Thomas Wiese Prize and also won an Isolde Langowski scholarship at the international master class for song design “Liedkunst” with Charles Spencer and Ulf Bästlein in Husum Germany.
Vladimir Borodin has already impressed with numerous appearances as a soloist in Austria, Italy, Ukraine and Germany, as well as with great success at piano concerts in Berlin and in Prien am Chiemsee. As a very sought-after chamber musician, he played in duos and trios, for example with the cellist Rudolf Leopold. As a vocal accompanist at numerous song recitals such as the Friedrich Hebbel song recital in the Vienna Musikverein and the Schubert Festival in Steyr, Upper Austria - together with the baritone Peter Edelmann, he impresses with his unique style of vocal accompaniment. He also accompanied the celebrated soprano Natalia Ushakova on her concert tours on the piano.
His other concert activities include the annual International Summer Academy in Lilienfeld, as well as the official vocal accompaniment at the International Hilde Zadek Singing Competition in Vienna and collaboration with the Otto Edelmann Society in Vienna.
From 2014 to 2021, Vladimir Borodin worked as a vocal and song accompanist at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and was assistant to University Professor Charles Spencer for song design.
Parallel to his work at the University of Vienna, he established himself as a very sought-after vocal coach and founded his own singing studio in Vienna, specializing in the technical aspects and problems of young singers on their way to a successful singing career.