Alexander Slobodyanik is the son of the famous pianist Alexander Slobodyanik. The young musician always plays, like dad, with emotional openness.
Alexander Slobodyanik: biography
The pianist was born in 1974 in Moscow, the capital of Russia, into a musical family. His dad is an outstanding pianist of his time, laureate of the III International Competition named after. P. I. Tchaikovsky. And my mother, Natalya Slobodyanik, is a graduate of the conservatory in the cello class. Until the age of 13, the pianist studied at the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory.
At the age of 14, the guy went abroad with his parents, to New York (United States of America), where he had a great opportunity to perform with the National and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, tour the US and Great Britain, give solo performances in the halls of Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw. Alexander received a colossal and unforgettableexperience with the best American orchestras.
Father's fiefdom
But the stage of the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory for Alexander still remains his father's patrimony. Admirers of the talent of Alexander Sr. say that when his father was at the peak of his popularity, it was impossible to get an extra ticket for his concerts. There was always a detachment of mounted police on the threshold of the hall.
Of course, his descendant, when entering the stage, is very worried when he goes out to the audience, due to the fact that there are listeners in the room who remember how the great pianist played Chopin. Alexander Slobodyanik Jr. claims that it was scarier to go on the small wooden stage of a music school only as a child.
Achievements of the famous pianist
When moving to New York, being a very young young man, Alexander Slobodyanik (photo of the musician a little higher) won the competition for young performers. This achievement was the basis for a bright career as a pianist. Over the next 10 years, the musician gave concerts in many European cities: in the USA, Canada, Japan, Africa and, of course, at home. In the early 2000s, his first record was released.
In 2002, the pianist participated in the First Moscow Easter Festival, where he performed Rachmaninov's 4th Concerto. The musician holds his solo concerts in major halls of the world. By the way, one of the concerts, which took place in London, was broadcast live by the BBC. After that, Alexander began to work closely with the Britishnational public broadcaster and released a series of radio and television recordings of music by such famous composers as Beethoven, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Chopin, Stravinsky.
Alexander collaborated with a number of famous conductors of our time. He graduated from the Film Academy in New York, takes an active part in multimedia projects and is quite successfully engaged in production activities. Alexander Slobodyanik is also a businessman - he owns a chain of musical instrument stores.
Now lives in 3 houses - in New York, Los Angeles and Moscow. As a pianist giving concerts, Alexander Slobodyanik traveled almost the whole world. He has performed with famous conductors and the best orchestras.
Alexander Slobodyanik: personal life
The young musician tries not to talk too much about his personal life. The only thing that is known is that for some time Alexander Slobodyanik and Maria Mashkova were married. Although before that, the chosen one of the pianist Maria was already married to a colleague in the series.
A little about Mashkova
Maria Mashkova is a Russian theater and film actress. Daughter of the popular Russian actor Vladimir Mashkov and actress Elena Shevchenko. In the film industry, the debut of the actress took place when she was 11 years old. Maria was busy in the film by V. Grammatikov "The Little Princess", where she played the role of the mischievous girl Lavinia. After school, the young girl expressed a desire to study at the Plekhanov Academy at the Faculty of Economics. But after sometime changed her choice and decided to connect her life with the acting profession, enrolling in the Theater School, on the course of V. Poglazov.
The personal life of the actress was not very smooth. Now Alexander Slobodyanik is Mashkova's husband. Before becoming the wife of a pianist, Maria divorced her first husband, a colleague in the TV series Don't Be Born Beautiful, Artem Semakin. Maria married Artyom early enough. It’s a pity, but the first marriage of the actress turned out to be short-lived, although for the sake of Mashkova Semakin left his first wife and little daughter. However, there were reports in the media that Artyom was cheating on Maria and had not previously been an ideal family man and an exemplary husband.
Maria was married to Semakin for 4 years (2005-2009). And already in the summer of 2010 she married Alexander, giving birth to his daughter Stephanie almost immediately.
Birth of girls: Stephanie and Alexandra
Having given birth to the first girl for Alexander, Maria plunged headlong into family life, and many had the impression that nothing could overshadow the happiness of young people. Mashkova stopped "going out" and attending fashion parties and even disappeared from the field of view of viewers and fans for a while.
Journalists began to have questions and assumptions: did the daughter of Vladimir Mashkov lose interest in acting, or maybe her husband Alexander forbids her to continue to work? Is it true that the actress left the stage forever and decided to become an exemplaryhousewife and wife?
However, a little later it became known why Maria led a secluded life for some time. Having given birth to Stephanie, the actress almost immediately became pregnant with her second child, giving birth in March 2012 to another girl, who was named Alexandra. The age difference between the sisters is only a year and a half. However, after giving birth, after just a couple of months, the young broke up. Neither Maria nor Alexander has yet given official comments on the breakup. In material terms, according to the assumptions of journalists, there should not have been any problems, since Alexander's income was enough to fully provide for his family.
The life of an actress after marriage
Currently, Alexander's ex-wife - Maria - continues to actively play in television series and films. Ironically, almost immediately after breaking up with her husband, she was offered to play in the TV series "The Perfect Marriage".
In raising children, she is assisted by her mother - Elena Shevchenko. Whether the financially talented pianist helps his ex-wife, whether he communicates with his daughters, is unknown.
If we compare the fate of the mother-in-law and the ex-wife of Alexander - Maria Mashkova, it turns out that they are quite similar. Both mother and daughter - each, at one time, were left with children in their arms and divorced. The only difference is that Elena Shevchenko managed to arrange her personal life and become happy in marriage, but whether Maria will succeed in this is not yet clear.
