Alexey Steblev

Alexey Steblev finished Gnessin School of Music, then studied cello at the Moscow Conservatory. Together with other members of Talan Quartet (later known as Moscow Quartet) he was a student of Valentin Berlinsky. While still in school, Alexey Steblev won the first grand prix at the international contest Concertino Praga. In 1992-2003 he was a cellist in Moscow Quartet. With Moscow Quartet he became a winner of international contests in Vienna and Saint-Petersburg, played with Alexander Rudin, Konstantin Lifschitz, Corina Belcea, Norbert Brainin and many others, made three recordings including the complete quartets by Alexander Taneyev on London label Olympia Records and Alexander Gretchaninov on the Swiss label Pan Classics.
In 2002 Alexey Steblev became a soloist of the chamber orchestra Moscow Virtuosi. In 2002-2005 he also was the art director of "Pir O.G.I.", a Moscow network of cafes. In 2006 in coauthorship with Petr Klimov wrote music to the film "Svyaz" by Avdotya Smirnova, and in 2008 and 2011—to two more films by the director: "Fathers and Sons" (2008) and "Two Days" (2011).
In 2008 together with Yulia Igonina, Elena Kharitonova and Mikhail Rudoy Alexey Steblev founds the New Russian Quartet. In 2011 he leaves Moscow Virtuosi.
Alexey Steblev worked in venture capital industry: in 2011-2013 he was a Vice President of business development in Enhanced Spectrometry Inc. and Terasense Inc. He also worked in the venture capital department of Troika Ventures. In 2014-2015 Alexey Steblev worked as a manager of distribution network development in Artec Europe.

Since 2015 Alexey teaches quartet in State Classical Academy Maimonides. He is also a conductor of the academy's orchestra. In the same year the label Melodiya releases the New Russian Quartet's album Cinemaphonia that includes renowned quartets used for various motion pictures soundtracks and Alexey's own piece "Moviemusic for String Quartet".

• Moviemusic for String Quartet

Music for films

• Svyaz (2006) (dir. Avdotya Smirnova)
• Fathers and Sons (2008) (dir. Avdotya Smirnova)
• Dva Dnya (2011) (dir. Avdotya Smirnova)
• Kniga Malgil (2013, short film, dir. Tanya Vigel)
• Suprematism (2014, short film, dir. Nikolay Sheptulin)

• 1995 - A.S.Taneev: All string quartets (Talan quartet), Olympia records, UK
• 1998 — Music for December (music by Anton Batagov for the film Music for December by dir. Ivan Dykhovichny)
• 2001 — Gretchaninov: String Quartets 2 & 4 (with Moscow Quartet), PanClassics, Switzerland
• 2001 — Strana glukhih (music for the film Country of the Deaf by dir. Valery Todorovsky) (with the ensemble 4'33'' of Alexey Aygi).
• 2009 — Brahms and Reger Clarinet Quintets ( with New Russian Quartet) and Valeriy Gorokholinsky
• 2015 — Cinemaphonia ( with New Russian Quartet), Melodiya
• 2016 — Sergey Akhunov. Chamber Works ( with New Russian Quartet)
• 2017 - Quintet+. Chamber music live from Moscow Conservatory hall (with New Russian Quartet, Lyudmila Berlinskaya)

• official webpage of the New Russian Quartet
• Cinemaphonia in Apple Music