Thomas Frost, the producer of many of Horowitz's recordings, and producer of Volodos' recordings for Sony Classical, has said that Volodos "has everything: imagination, colour, passion and a phenomenal technique to carry out his ideas."
As a pedagogue at the Moscow Conservatory and Queen Sofia College of Music in Madrid, he raised many internationally renowned artists such as Arcadi Volodos, Dmitri Alexeev, Dang Thai Son, Nikolai Demidenko, Elena Bashkirova, Kirill Gerstein, Denis Kozhukhin, Eldar Nebolsin, Vestards Šimkus, David Kadouch, Jong Hwa Park, Claudio Martinez Mehner, Bruno Vlahek, Plamena Mangova, Stanislav Ioudenitch and many others.
Many famous musicians perform at the music event, such as Cecilia Bartoli, Lang Lang, Evgeny Kissin, Arcadi Volodos, Grigory Sokolov, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Rafal Blechacz, Olga Scheps and Lars Vogt.