New Cello Concertos, Collaborations with Composers (portfolio), 2011 + 2013

Roger Redgate (b.1958) – Black Icons, for cello and small orchestra (2011).

World premiere at the Rakhmaninov’s Hall of Moscow State Conservatoire in April 2011 (commissioned by the Eurocommission for Ivashkin).
http://youtu.be/nP7lJhNHd8Y

Published on CD ‘Ivashkin plays Gubaidulina, Tarnopolski and Redgate’, Alma Classics 5032 , Auckland, New Zealand, November, 2013.

Gabriel Prokofiev (b.1974) – Cello Concerto No 1 (2013).

Commissioned for Ivashkin by Ralph Vaughan-Williams Foundation, first performed at the concert 'The Prokofievs: Three Generations’ at the Great Hall of St Petersburg Philharmonia on 18 May 2013 , with St Petersburg Academic Symphony orchestra, conducted by Sabrie Bekirova, together with the unfinished Concertino for cello and orchestra by Sergei Prokofiev and poems by Oleg Prokofiev.
http://youtu.be/gItCa9FrV4U

The complete audio recording: http://www.alexanderivashkin.com/11video-audio.html#live_radio