Vadim Roudenko, born in Krasnodar in a non-musical family, started to play the piano at the age of 4. When he was only 7 years old, he gave his first concert. In 1975 he entered the Central Musical School in Moscow and already in 1982 won the international competition "Concertino Prague". His teachers were Anna Artobolevskaya, Vadim Sukhanov and Professor Dmitry Bashkirov.

In 1989 he entered the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Professor Sergei Dorensky, and graduated from this school in 1994. In 1994-1996 he obtained a master's degree from the same Conservatory. During this period, Vadim Roudenko received prizes in such competitions as the Queen Elisabeth Competition, Paloma O'Shea Piano Competition in Santander (Spain), the International G.B. ViottiCompetition in Vercelli (Italy). In the P. Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition, he was awarded 3rd prize in 1994 and 2nd prize in 1998.

Since that time Vadim Roudenko has been touring extensively and giving concerts in Russia and abroad with the most famous orchestras, such as the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, St.Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, The National Orchestra of Russia, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Amsterdam-Concertgebouw-Orkest, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Sinfoniker, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Wiener Kammerorchester, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Torino, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Leeds Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona, Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Espagnola, Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Orquesta Filarmónica de Toledo, Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Japan Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and others.

He has performed under Vladimir Fedosejev, Evgeny Svetlanov, Yury Temirkanov, Yury Simonov, Andrei Boreiko, Nikolay Alekseev, Mark Gorinstein, Alexander Vedernikov, S. Sondetskis, Dmitry Liss, Vasily Sinaisky, Marek Janowski, Veronika Dudarova, Vladimir Ponjkin, Eri Klaas, Sergiu Comissiona, Arnold Katz, Philipp Entremont and many others.

Vadim Roudenko gives concerts in Europe, USA, Canada, South America, Asia in such concert halls as: Conservatoria Verdi (Milan), Tonhalle (Zurich), Suntori Hall (Tokyo), Auditoria Nacionale (Madrid), Osaka Symphony Hall (Osaka), Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Rudolfinum (Prague), Mozarteum (Salzburg), the Great Hall of St Petersburg Philharmonic, the Great Hall of Cologne Philharmonic, De Doelen (Rotterdam), Gasteig and Herkules Saal (Munich), Sala Sao Paolo (Sao Paolo), Salle Gaveau and Theatre du Chatelet ( Paris), and many others. He has recorded a number of CDs solo as well as with ensembles and orchestras. He has taken part in such international music festivals as: Mozarteum, Carinthischer Sommer (Austria), La Roque d'Antheron (France), Musik Sommer Gstaad Saanenland (Swizerland), the Newport Music Festival (USA), Risor Festival of Chamber Music (Norway), Crescendo (Moscow), Klavier-Festival Ruhr (Germany), etc.