As a classical pianist my head is full of the music of the greatest composers, like in a dream during the concert, I let them come out to encounter Jeff’s music. » Mikhail Rudy

« I followed my desire to have Schumann and Tristano through an imaginary journey in a crystal forest. Gradually, the outline of this journey, born from crossed dreams through different musical landscapes took form. All this journey’s pleasure was in discovery. » – Mikhail Rudy

The duo played this program on some of the greatest international stages, such as : the London Kings Place, Paris Théâtre du Trianon, Nanterre Maison de la Musique, Paris Collège des Bernardins, Oslo Theatre, Copenhagen Jazz Festival and the festivals of Sully-sur-Loire, La Moutte, Sudney, Montenegro, Jersey …

« Alperin’s fizzing with excitement, Rudy’s gently quizzical, they embarked on the most extraordinary classical/jazz conversation I’ve ever heard. »
The Independent, Michael Church *****

This is an animated film made by Mikhail Rudy based on Kandinsky’s 1928 original theatrical version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

In 1928 in Dessau Kandinsky created an Art Total performance based upon Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition in which he combined music, painting and staging. Each one of Kandinsky’s sketches is animated according to his staging indications. Rudy revived this Art Total creation during an exceptional concert.

After its world premiere in Cité de la Musique / Paris in 2010, Mikhail Rudy has played this project on numerous prestigious international scenes including : Musiekgebouw/Amsterdam, Kings Place/London, Milan Auditorium, Guggenheim Museum New York, Svetlanov Hall/Moscow, Philharmonie/Saint Petersburg, Sapienza University/Rome, Teatro de la Maestranza/Sevilla, Sao Paolo Sala/Sao Paolo, Zentrum Paul Klee/Bern, L’Arsenal/Metz, Opera House/Rouen, Maison de la Musique/Nanterre, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Morgan Library/New York, Salle Bourgie/Montreal – and in prestigious international festivals such as : Hong-Kong, Colmar, La Roque d’Anthéron, Mexico, La Chaise-Dieu…

The Pompidou Centre released a DVD of this project, which was projected in their 4 month exhibition Danser sa Vie (Dance through Life).

This project combines music and film on the theme of Kafka’s Metamorphosis. It was premiered at the Paris Cité de la Musique in March 2012.

Mikhail Rudy asked the cult film makers The Quay Brothers to make a film adapting Kafka’s Metamorphosis, accompanied by works by Janacek which he plays live. In 2013 The MoMA invited Rudy to perform this show three times on the closing day of The Quay Brothers’ exhibition. Thereafter he performed the show in L’Arsenal in Metz, in Rouen Opera House, De Bijloke Musikcentrum, Nanterre Maison de la Musique, Châlons-en-Champagne La Comète, Rotterdam De Doelen, Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and Kings Place in London.

The project was chosen among the 10 best multimedia shows of the year 2013 by ISPA’s International conference jury.

Mikhail Rudy knew Marc Chagall in his late years. In collaboration with the Chagall family he created an animated film using Chagall’s unpublished sketches, which he painted in preparation for the ceiling of the Paris Opera. Rudy accompanied the film with music by the composers evoked by Chagall in his painting : Glück, Mozart, Wagner, Debussy and Ravel. The premiere took place in July 2013 in the Marc Chagall Museum in Nice, for the museum 40th anniversary. Since then Mikhail Rudy has been invited to play Chagall, The Sound of Colours on numerous international stages : the Nanterre Maison de la Musique, Rouen Opera, Sala Sao Paolo in Sao Paolo, Paris Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Milan Auditorium, Grenoble Museum, Nancy Salle Poirel and in the festivals of La Roque d’Anthéron, Besançon, Hong-Kong, Mexico, La Chaise-Dieu and Wimbledon.

On October 18, 2015, Mikhail Rudy played Chagall, The Sound of Colours at the Paris Philharmonie, as part of the exhibition Chagall : The Triumph of Music, of which Rudy was the musical director. After Paris, the exhibition was shown at Roubaix Museum La Piscine in January 2016, before it was presented in Nice. It will be shown in Montreal and Los Angeles in 2017.

The DVD of his film was released on the occasion of the Paris exhibition under the title : Chagall, The Sound of Colours. « This is Mikhail Rudy’s most recent fabulous project whereby art and music enter into a dialogue led with his everlasting maestria and depth. It is an extremely well achieved, moving tribute to Marc Chagall whom he knew well at the end of his life. » – Thierry Hilleriteau / Le Figaro

« Simple, intimate, urgent. » – The Times, Benedict Nightingale *****