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): Christian Laettner • Jake Virtanen • Jean-Jacques Sempé • Jules Bernard Luys • Lalla Carlsen • Louis Desaix • Mick Malthouse • Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

Born in the same month (August 1948): Andy Fairweather Low • Christy O'Connor Jnr • Deborah Swallow • Dennis Prager • Graham J. Zellick • Greg Chappell • Joey Spampinato • John Noble • Kim Sung-il (general) • Ledward Kaapana • Lowell Ganz • Margaret Urban Walker • Marty Appel • Nicholas A. Peppas • Philippe Vallois • Ray Clemence • Rudolf Schenker • Svetlana Savitskaya • Tom Johnston (musician) • Victor Skumin • Vonda N. McIntyre