Vladimir Ivanov Rakievsky was born in Bakal, Irkutsk region. Before entering the Central School of Music at the Moscow Conservatory named after P.I. Chakovsky, he studied music under the guidance of his mother, Natalia Rakievsko. His debut performance was Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20, K. 466, with the Irkutsk Philharmonic Orchestra. Vladimir Ivanov Rakievsky graduated from music school in 2004 in the class of Professor Alexander Mndoyants and began his studies at the Faculty of Historical and Contemporary Performing Arts of the Moscow State Conservatoire in the classes of Alexei Lyubimov and Alexei Shevchenko. In the summer of 2009 Vladimir became a postgraduate student at the Conservatory, at the same time he began studying early keyboard instruments at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater and Media (HMTM) in Hannover. In 2012 he completed his studies in Germany and entered the Zurich Conservatory of Music in the class of Konstantin Scherbakov. Between 2009 and 2015 Vladimir Ivanov Rakievsky won prestigious competitions including the Maria Yudino Competition (St Petersburg, First Prize, 2013), the Fritz-Neumeyer-Wettbewerb Competition (Germany, Third Prize, 2012), the Alexander Scriabin Competition (Paris, First Prize, 2009), the ESKAS Scholarship (grant from the Government of Sweden) and the DAAD Scholarship (grant from the Government of Germany). Vladimir Ivanov Rakievsky has repeatedly participated in various projects, concerts and master classes of leading experts in the field of contemporary music and historical performance, such as Robert Levine, Malcolm Bilson, Christina Shornsham, Natalia Gutman, Alex Lyubimov, Beat Furrer, Nicholas Hodges and others. Vladimir Ivanov Rakievsky has initiated and participated in several Russian premieres of contemporary music, such as György Ligeti's Symphonic Poem for 100 Metronomes, Erik Satie's Trouble, David Lang's Passion for a Girl with Matches, Steve Rach's Music for 18 Musicians and others. He has participated in the Moscow Autumn Festival, Long Hands, No translation, John Kedge's Musicircus, Under Satie's Umbrella, Code of the Epoch, Other Space, Sound up Forte, Faces of Modern Pianism, and others. In 2015, Vladimir Ivanov Rakievsky, with the help of a Swiss sponsor, purchased and brought to Moscow several Tafelklavier pianos, a verginel and a clavichord and created a project-club “poets' café” on the basis of these instruments, where people play and socialize. The Moscow Conservatory has released a CD featuring Vladimir Ivanov Rakievsky, John Cage - To The 100th Anniversary Of The Composer's Birth (2012), and Wergo has released the DVD The Precise Music of Galina Ustvolskaya - the Six Piano Sonatas (2015). The musician's recordings have been broadcast on Russian, German and Swedish radio.
