Vadim Gladkov

He was born in Kiev, Ukraine. He began his piano studies with his aunt Lyudmila Gavrina and with his mother, Tatiana Gladkova. Later, he expanded his training with Professor Valery Sagaidachny at the Kiev Special Secondary School of Music. In 1997 he graduated from the Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music of Ukraine, where he obtained the Soloist Diploma with Honorable Mention.Between 1995 and 1998 he expanded his training at the Piano Chair of the Banco Santander Foundation of the Reina Sofía School of Music under the direction of professors Dmitri Bashkirov and Galina Eguiazarova. In both 1997 and 1998 he was distinguished with the Diploma to the Most Outstanding Student of his Chair by Her Majesty Queen Sofía.
He has participated in master classes by Vitaly Margulis, Sergio Perticaroli, Leon Fleisher, Esther Yellin, Menahem Pressler, András Schiff, Claude Frank and Pavel Gililov, among others.
Since 2014 he has been a Piano Professor at “Encore Music Projects International Summer School” (England). Since 2003, he has been a pianist accompanying professor in the Telefónica Violin Chair of the Reina Sofía School of Music of Professor Zakhar Bron. Likewise, between 2000-2009 he has performed the same work in the Oboe Chair of Professor Hansjörg Schellenberger.
Throughout these years he has also worked in master classes taught by professors such as Gordon Hunt, Alex Klein, Stefan Schilli (oboe), Silvia Markovici, Igor Ozim, Ana Chumachenko (violin), Natalia Shakhovskaya (cello), Jaime Martín (flute), Klaus Thunemann (bassoon), Radovan Vlatković (horn), Rainer Zepperitz (double bass), Eduard Brunner and Paul Meyer (clarinet).
He has obtained numerous awards, such as the Grand Prize, first prize and two special prizes in the IX Da Cidade do Porto International Piano Competition (Porto, 1992); first prize and Gold Medal in the I Lysenko International Competition (Kiev, 1992); or first prize and Prize for the Best Interpretation of the obligatory work in the Piano Competition of the Belarusian Republic Spring of Minsk (Belarus, 1992). In 2002 he obtained the Prize for the Best Accompanying Pianist in the X Acisclo Fernández Carriedo International Singing Competition. As a member of the Exodus quartet, he won first prize in the IV Guadamora Chamber Music Competition (Pozoblanco, 2003). He has also been a jury member of international competitions such as the Ibiza Piano Competition or the Antón García Abril Piano Competition (Teruel).
Likewise, he has performed at the XII Ciudad de Úbeda International Music Festival, VIII International Music Festival, (Toledo, 2002), Zakhar Bron and his School cycle, Kronberg Cello Festival 2007, Guildford International Music Festival of 2009 and at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad 2010, among others. Since 2001 he has participated in the Encounter of Music and Academy of Santander.He has offered concerts in countries such as Ukraine, Germany, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Japan, Mongolia, the Czech Republic, Russia and Switzerland. During his stay in Spain he has performed in venues such as the National Music Auditorium, Juan March Foundation, Teatro Real in Madrid, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando or in the Cantabria Festival Palace.
Since 2005 he has formed a duo with the Mongolian pianist Mendmaa Dorzhín, with whom he has won several prizes in the VII edition of the Grieg International Competition, in Oslo.