VICTOR OSADCHEV

Composer, Pianist, Sound Producer

Victor Osadchev is an Italian-based composer, pianist, and recording engineer whose work spans concert music, ballet, cinema, and spatial audio. His compositions are grounded in the melodic and lyrical tradition — intimate, precise, and unafraid of silence. "I believe in simplicity. Complexity should never obscure the meaning."

As a Composer

Victor's debut album Circles (2018) was presented at Zaryadye Concert Hall during Moscow's Urban Forum. In 2019, he premiered the orchestral suite Song of Songs, later adapted into a ballet — a landmark project featuring his own "sound mapping" technique, where spatial audio for a multi-channel surround system was written directly into the score, performed at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow.

His discography includes Journey (2021), Christmas Tales (Moscow Philharmonic, 2021), and the film score Magdalina (2023). His piece Walk in Moscow served as the official soundtrack for the Moscow Pavilion at EXPO 2020 Dubai.

Victor's works have been performed at the Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), and venues across Europe and Asia. He has collaborated with the San Francisco Ballet (Yuriy Posokhov's Dedicated to…) and Bolshoi Theater principal dancers Kristina Kretova and Igor Tsvirko (Alessandro Caggeggi's Tango), with performances in Cyprus, China, Kyrgyzstan, and Palermo.

As a Recording Engineer

From 2011 to 2022, Victor was the chief recording and mixing engineer at the Moscow Philharmonic Society, building one of the most substantial live-recording discographies in Russian classical music. He has worked with Maris Jansons, Claudio Abbado, Vladimir Jurowski, Valery Gergiev, and Daniele Gatti; and recorded soloists including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Daniil Trifonov, Maxim Vengerov, Marc-André Hamelin, Rudolf Buchbinder, Maria João Pires, Jan Lisiecki, Pablo Ferrández, and many others. Recording credits include Sony Classical, Deutsche Grammophon, Pan Classics, and DELOS. He is a certified user of Merging HORUS for multi-channel DSD recording.

He later served as Associate Professor and Head of the Sound Production Department at the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music (2020–2022).

Awards & Recognition

Pure Sound International Award — best audio recording of Russian academic music

Laureate, Partitura Composition Competition (2021–2022), concert at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory

Silver Award, AES Competition Rome (2013)

Participant, GES-2 "Vaults" program

Associate Member, SIAE (Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori)

Voting Member, Recording Academy (GRAMMY)

In 2022, Victor left Russia following the outbreak of the war, taking a firm stand against the violence and humanitarian crisis.