The pianist graduated from the Moscow Conservatory with S.Dorensky. Winner
of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, the Paloma O’Shea and the Viotti competitions as well as Tchaikovsky Competition (1994, 1998).
He has toured extensively throughout Russia and abroad, collaborated with leading orchestras including the Tchaikovsky and Svetlanov Orchestras, RNO, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio, «Mozarteum», orchestras of Rotterdam, Warsaw, Prague, Paris, Japanese NHK and Radio France.
Among his partners are Y.Temirkanov, V.Fedoseev, G.Rozhdestvensky, E.Svetlanov, V.Sinaysky, A.Vedernikov, Y.Simonov, N.Alexeev, Y.Bashmet and M.Pletnev. Th e musician has played in the major music centers of the world and has participated in the festivals in La Roque d’Antheron, Gstaad, Newport, Ruhr, Nantes, Warsaw, as well as the «Stars on Baikal» and «Stars of the White Nights».
Since 2005, Vadim Rudenko has been performing regularly in a duet with Nikolai Lugansky.