Alexander Ivashkin

Alexander Ivashkin, was a Russian cellist, writer, academic and conductor. He was a professor of music and the Chair of Performance Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London since 1999, the director of the Centre for Russian Music, and the curator of the Alfred Schnittke Archive. In 1996, he published the first English-language biography of the composer Alfred Schnittke.

17 August 1948

Born on the same birth day (17 August): Carlos Cruz-Diez • Charles I of Austria • Donnie Wahlberg • Ed McCaffrey • Evelyn Ankers • Gene Stratton-Porter • Guillermo Vilas • Jean-Bernard Pommier • Johann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen • Jorge Posada • Mary Cain (editor) • Maurizio Sandro Sala • Oksana Domnina • Rachel Corsie • Ralph McKittrick • Richard Hunt (puppeteer) • Rudy Gay • Stephan Eicher • Álvaro Pino

Born in the same month (August 1948): Andy Fairweather Low • Avi Arad • Barbara Flynn • David Gemmell • David Marks • Don Boyd • Earl Blumenauer • John Scarlett • Pierre Reid • Robert Plant • Sauli Niinistö • Svetlana Savitskaya • Vonda N. McIntyre