Andrej Hoteev

Andrej Hoteev was born in Leningrad. He studied piano at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Saint Petersburg as well as at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Lev Naumov.Lutz Lesle: [http://www.concerti.de/de/1351/cd-rezi-hoteev-dornroeschen.html Review on "The Sleeping Beauty"], Concerti 2012http://rm.mosconsv.ru/?p=3905 Андрей Хитрук “Защитник окружающей среды“ Российский музыкант № 3 (1233), апрель 2005

Hoteev gave his first concert in 1983 at the Moscow Conservatory. Other concerts in Russia followed. His encounter with Sviatoslav Richter[http://issuu.com/concerti/docs/concerti_hamburg_0610/16 Andrej Hoteev über Sviatoslav Richter]Jürgen Kesting:[http://www.genios.de/presse-archiv/artikel/HA/20100604/andrej-hoteevs-hommage-fuer-richter/70820380.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913183033/http://www.genios.de/presse-archiv/artikel/HA/20100604/andrej-hoteevs-hommage-fuer-richter/70820380.html|date=2017-09-13}}"Andrej Hoteevs Hommage für Richters singende Finger" Hamburger Abendblatt vom 04.06.2010 in June 1985 at Saint Petersburg had a deep influence on Hoteev's pianistic style.{{cite news|author=Lesle Lutz|url=https://www.welt.de/welt_print/kultur/article7935065/Ein-olympisches-Programm.html|title=Ein olympisches Programm|publisher=Die Welt|date=June 7, 2010|accessdate=January 5, 2013}} After the recommendation of Valery Gergiev he had the chance to give concerts in the Netherlands at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and in Germany at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in 1990.

Hoteev's first European tour followed in 1993, including cities in Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium and Spain. In the same year, he recorded his first CD in France. In September 1993, Hoteev played the manuscript version of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition for the first time in the UK at the Purcell Room, London.[https://books.google.com/books?id=BeTBnjmnypEC&pg=PA296 Biography entry], International Who's who in music In October 1993 a concert with Hoteev and the Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra was broadcast from the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, presenting a new version of the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky with explanations by the pianist himself, who had rediscovered the original version with three movements after manuscripts by the composer.{{cite news|author=Lesle Lutz|url=https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article509075/Verschluesselte-Klangbotschaften-werden-jetzt-enthuellt.html|title=Verschlüsselte Klangbotschaften werden jetzt enthüllt|publisher=Die Welt|date=March 27, 2000|accessdate=January 5, 2013}} Also in 1993 he moved to Hamburg with his family.

File:Andrej Hoteev&Vladimir Fedoseyev Moscow1996 Tchaikovsky -the 4 piano concertos -World premiere.jpg in Moscow 1996]]

Hoteev's premiere of the cycle of all three Tchaikovsky concertos in the original versions at the large hall of Moscow Conservatory as well as Tchaikovsky's Concert Fantasy for piano and orchestra, in November 1996, gained him worldwide attention and a reputation as a Tchaikovsky expert. Two years later, he presented and recorded the same program, along with the Allegro in C minor, as well as the Ungarische Zigeunerweisen by Franz Liszt and Sophie Menter in an orchestration by Tchaikovsky.[http://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/A_lexartikel/lexartikel.php?id=ment1846 Sophie Menter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116190043/http://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/A_lexartikel/lexartikel.php?id=ment1846 |date=2014-01-16 }} auf mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de{{cite news|author=Juergen Kesting|url= http://www.zeit.de/1998/47/Ein_duesterer_Romantiker/seite-1|title=Ein düsterer Romantiker|publisher=Die Zeit|date=November 12, 1998|accessdate=January 5, 2013}} He also worked with radio and TV corporations such as NDR and Deutschland Radio Berlin in Germany, VARA{{cite web|url=http://zoeken.beeldengeluid.nl/internet/index.aspx?chapterid%3D1164%26filterid%3D974%26contentid%3D7%26searchID%3D4165720%26columnorderid%3D-1%26orderby%3D1%26itemsOnPage%3D10%26defsortcol%3D12%26defsortby%3D2%26pvname%3Dpersonen%26pis%3Dexpressies%3Bselecties%26startrow%3D1%26resultitemid%3D1%26nrofresults%3D3%26verityID%3D%2F342515%2F347221%2F380883%2F4060582%40expressies |title=Beeld en Geluid |accessdate=2014-04-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407065918/http://zoeken.beeldengeluid.nl/internet/index.aspx?chapterid=1164&filterid=974&contentid=7&searchID=4165720&columnorderid=-1&orderby=1&itemsOnPage=10&defsortcol=12&defsortby=2&pvname=personen&pis=expressies%3Bselecties&startrow=1&resultitemid=1&nrofresults=3&verityID=%2F342515%2F347221%2F380883%2F4060582%40expressies |archivedate=2014-04-07 }} and VPRO{{cite web|url=http://zoeken.beeldengeluid.nl/internet/index.aspx?chapterid%3D1164%26filterid%3D974%26contentid%3D7%26searchID%3D4165561%26columnorderid%3D-1%26orderby%3D1%26itemsOnPage%3D10%26defsortcol%3D12%26defsortby%3D2%26pvname%3Dpersonen%26pis%3Dexpressies%3Bselecties%26startrow%3D1%26resultitemid%3D2%26nrofresults%3D2%26verityID%3D%2F10721%2F10721%2F10721%2F14267%40expressies |title=Beeld en Geluid |accessdate=2014-04-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407064701/http://zoeken.beeldengeluid.nl/internet/index.aspx?chapterid=1164&filterid=974&contentid=7&searchID=4165561&columnorderid=-1&orderby=1&itemsOnPage=10&defsortcol=12&defsortby=2&pvname=personen&pis=expressies%3Bselecties&startrow=1&resultitemid=2&nrofresults=2&verityID=%2F10721%2F10721%2F10721%2F14267%40expressies |archivedate=2014-04-07 }} Netherlands, Radio Lugano Switzerland, NHK and TBS in Japan.

In 2006, Hoteev realized a project with colored light, pictures and music at the Greater Hall of the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. As soloist accompanied by Hamburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrey Boreyko he presented the authentic colour light score with Clavier à lumières of Alexander Scriabin's Prometheus: The Poem of Fire rediscovered by himself as well as the original colored light and picture scores by Wassily Kandinsky to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.{{cite news|author=Berard von Günter|url= http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article415860/Musik-sehen-Farbe-hoeren.html|title=Musik sehen, Farbe hören|publisher=Hamburger Abendblatt|date=August 29, 2006|accessdate=January 5, 2013}}[http://www.mopo.de/news/eroeffnung-mussorgsky-unter-einer-disco-kugel,5066732,5719614.htmlEroeffnung Morgenpost, September 6th 2006]

File:Andrej Hoteev in Scriabin Museum, Moscow 2005.jpg museum, Moscow 2005 Prometheus-research]]

In 2014, as a result of his research, Andrej Hoteev presented his new CD recording of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" after original manuscripts from the Russian National Library of St.Petersburg.[http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Berlin%2BClassics/0300568BC Pure Mussorgsky] Presto Classical 20th Oct 2014 He found numerous discrepancies compared with past editions.Remy Franck: [http://www.pizzicato.lu/mussorgsky-nach-den-originalmanuskripten/Mussorgsky of the original manuscript], Pizzicato 24.09.2014Heinz Gelking: [http://andrej-hoteev.com/reviews/Andrej%20Hoteevs-CD%20ist%20da-der%20neue%20Ma%C3%9Fstab.html "Pure Mussorgsky"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210075821/http://andrej-hoteev.com/reviews/Andrej%20Hoteevs-CD%20ist%20da-der%20neue%20Ma%C3%9Fstab.html |date=2014-12-10 }} The most important deviations are documented with the use of illustrations from the manuscripts in the accompanying CD booklet.Dorothea Bossert: [http://www.swr.de/-/id=14176622/property=download/nid=10748564/23dklk/index.pdf Diese CD hat Folgen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210232106/http://www.swr.de/-/id=14176622/property=download/nid=10748564/23dklk/index.pdf |date=2014-12-10 }} SWR2 16.9. 2014Gregor Willmes: [http://fonoforum.de/rezensionen/november-2014/urtext-bilder/ Original-Pictures] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209020302/http://fonoforum.de/rezensionen/november-2014/urtext-bilder/ |date=2014-12-09 }} FonoForum, November 2014

{{AllMusic|album/pure-mussorgsky-mw0002723454|Linktext= Pure Mussorgsky}}[http://www.schallplattenkritik.de/component/docman/doc_download/125-longlist-42014 Longlist Bestenliste 4.2014] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150331141602/http://www.schallplattenkritik.de/component/docman/doc_download/125-longlist-42014 |date=2015-03-31 }} Jury Piano music/Klaviermusik

In January 2015, Hoteev was awarded the "5 Diapason", France for outstanding classical music recordings.http://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/page/diapason {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20150105200759/http://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/page/diapason |date=2015-01-05 }} Diapason, France Janvier 2015

Hoteev was married to the Russian pianist Olga Hoteeva. The couple released a CD in 2012 with 22 transcriptions by Sergei Rachmaninoff for piano for four hands after Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty.{{cite web|url=http://www.ncamusic.com/produkte-details.php?lang=de&id=60251|title=Information on the work and the recording|accessdate=January 5, 2013}} Hoteev died on 28 November 2021, age 74.

• Tchaikovsky: Piano Concert No. 3/Dumka 1993, Accord
• Tchaikovsky: The four piano concertos, Hungarian Gypsy Melodies, Allegro c-moll in original version. 3 CDs, 1998, KOCH-Schwann
• Russian songs: Rachmaninoff: 10 songs; Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death; Scriabin: Black Mass Sonata; with Anja Silja, soprano. Recording: Berlin, Jesus Christus Kirche, 2009, RCA Red Seal (Sony Music)
• Tchaikovsky/Rachmaninoff: Sleeping Beauty/Dornröschen. Great Ballet-Suite for piano for four hands. Andrej Hoteev and Olga Hoteeva, piano. 2012, NCA
• “Pure Mussorgsky”: Pictures at an Exhibition & Songs and Dances of Death - played from the original manuscripts; Andrej Hoteev(piano) and Elena Pankratova(soprano). Berlin classics / Edel 2014[http://www.edel.com/de/audio/release/modest-peter-mussorgsky/bilder-einer-ausstellunglieder-taenze-des-todes Andrej Hoteev: Bilder einer Ausstellung + Lieder und Tänze des Todes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808224553/http://www.edel.com/de/audio/release/modest-peter-mussorgsky/bilder-einer-ausstellunglieder-taenze-des-todes |date=2014-08-08 }}
• Wagner„Declarations of Love. Complete piano works and piano songs for Mathilde and Cosima:“Wesendonck- Sonata” Piano Sonata in a flat WWV 85 – “Sleepless” Music Letter for piano in G - “Schmachtend”Piano Elegie for Cosima in A-flat - Wesendonck Lieder 1. Version,1857/58 - “Vier weiße Lieder“,1868. Andrej Hoteev, piano; Maria Bulgakova, soprano Hänssler Classic HC16058 2017[https://www.allmusic.com/album/richard-wagner-declarations-of-love-mw0003048951 Allmusic Richard Wagner: Declarations of Love Andrej Hoteev/Maria Bulgakova ]
• „Tchaikovsky.The Seasons & Dumka“:" The Seasons,12 characteristic scenes” op. 37bis and „Dumka“ op.59. Andrej Hoteev (piano) Profil-Edition Günter Hänssler PH18088 2019https://magazin.klassik.com/reviews/reviews.cfm?task=record&RECID=34414&TITLE=Alle%A0Besprechungen&LANGUAGE=1&CONTENT=ALL

• Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, 2001
• Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 6. (Op. 82), 2003

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• [http://www.puskasinternational.com/artists/#/andrej-hoteev/ PUSKAS INTERNATIONAL Artist Management, London: Andrej Hoteev] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402131958/http://www.puskasinternational.com/artists/#/andrej-hoteev/ |date=2015-04-02 }}
• [https://archive.today/20140305231411/http://de.linkedin.com/pub/andrej-hoteev/3b/b18/979 LinkedIn: Andrei Hoteev]
• {{AllMusic|artist/andrei-hoteev-mn0002179031/credits|Linktext=Andrei Hoteev}}
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=BeTBnjmnypEC&dq=fonoforum+Andrej+Hoteev&pg=PA296 Andrej Hoteev's biography] in "International Who's who in Music"
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• [http://www.ncamusic.com/kuenstler.php?lang=de&id=Andrej_Hoteev Official biography of Andrej Hoteev] at ncamusic.com
• {{cite web|url=http://baxpress.blogspot.com/2013/05/happy-days-with-pianist-andrej-hoteev.html|title=Happy days with pianist Andrej Hoteev|publisher=Bax Art Concepts & Services|date=March 17, 2013|accessdate=January 18, 2014}}
• Jürgen Kesting. [http://issuu.com/concerti/docs/concerti_hamburg_0610/16.html Interview with Andrej Hoteev], Concerti, Juni 2010 (in German)

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