继承了以炫目的技巧和浓烈的情感色彩而闻名的俄罗斯钢琴学派的优秀钢琴家 　　  　　Vladimir Pavlovich Ovchinnikov (born January 2, 1958) is a Russian pianist from Belebey, Bashkir ASSR. He is the only pianist ever to win the top prizes at both the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1982, first prize not awarded, O. received a joint 2nd prize with Peter Donohoe) and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition (1987). 　　  　　A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory where he studied with Aleksey Nasedkin, Vladimir Ovchinnikov is resident professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory and guest professor of piano at Sakuyo University in Japan. He was awarded second place in the Montreal International Music Competition in 1980. In 1982, he was awarded joint second prize with Peter Donohoe in the International Tchaikovsky Competition (no first prize was awarded that year). In 1987, he was awarded first prize at the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. In 2005, he received Russia's highest award and honor for musicians: the title "National Artist of Russia", awarded by the Russian president. 　　  　　In March 2011 he served as chairman of the jury of the 9th International Russian Rotary Children Music Competition and in April 2011 he was named director of the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory. 　　  　　Ovchinnikov appears regularly with such leading Russian orchestras as the Moscow Philharmonic; Moscow Radio Symphony and the St Petersburg Philharmonic; he also has a long standing relationship with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, and was a special favorite of Yevgeny Svetlanov, with whom he toured France, the Netherlands, and North and South America. 　　  　　Concerto appearances in Europe and North America have included the following: 　　  　　BBC Philharmonic 　　Bournemouth Symphony 　　Chicago Symphony 　　Danish Radio Symphony 　　Hague Residentie Hallé 　　Leipzig Gewandhaus 　　Montreal Symphony 　　National Symphony of Wales 　　Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra 　　Philharmonia 　　Polish National Radio Orchestra 　　Royal Liverpool Philharmonic 　　Royal Philharmonic 　　Royal Scottish National 　　Slovak Philharmonic 　　Ulster Orchestra 　　Zurich Tonhalle 　　  　　Ovchinnikov has played under various conductors including: 　　  　　Yevgeny Svetlanov 　　Vladimir Ashkenazy 　　Matthias Bamert 　　Rudolf Barshai 　　Vladimir Fedoseyev 　　Claus Peter Flor 　　Valery Gergiev 　　Mariss Jansons 　　Neeme Jarvi 　　Alexander Lazarev 　　Libor Pesek 　　Gennadi Rozhdestvensky 　　Sir Simon Rattle 　　Yuri Simonov 　　Stanislaw Skrowaczewski 　　Sir Georg Solti 　　Walter Weller 　　A. Vedernikov 　　T. Sanderling 　　J. Conlon 　　M. Gorenstein 　　M. Shostakovich 　　  　　Among his recordings are Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 coupled with Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (Collins Classics), Rachmaninoff's Études-Tableaux, and Liszt's Transcendental Études, and Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas (EMI). Other recordings include sonatas for violin and piano by Grieg (together with the violinist Vinnitsky) - for the Russian Seasons label, also - Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Taneyev, Rubinstein for Gold Club