Alexandre Moutouzkine
- piano
 Alexandre
Moutouzkine burst onto the U.S. concert
scene at the age of nineteen, after
garnering the Special Award for Artistic
Potential at the 11th Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition, where the
critic of The Dallas Morning News wrote:
“...Moutouzkine played Brahms’ Op. 117
Intermezzi more beautifully, more movingly,
than I’ve ever heard them. At once sad,
tender and noble, this was playing of
heart-stopping intimacy and elegance…” His
success was soon followed by several solo
recitals as well as appearances with major
orchestras.
Winner of the St. Petersburg International
Piano Competition at the age of 14,
Alexandre is the laureate of numerous
international competitions. He claimed top
prizes at the Tilvoli International Piano
Competition (Denmark), the Andorra
International Piano Competition, the Jose
Iturbi Competition (Valencia), the New
Orleans International Piano Competition,
Maria Canals (Barcelona), the 2nd Shanghai
International (China), the 10th Citta di
Sulmona (Italy), the Calabria International
(Italy), the Guerrero Foundation (Madrid),
the Ignacio Cervantes (Havana), the Pilar
Bayona (Zaragoza), and the Panama
International Piano Competition. Most
recently, Alexandre won the Third Prize at
the Cleveland International Piano
Competition as well as the Beethoven Prize
and was chosen as the Junior Jury’s First
Prize winner.
Born in Yoshkar-Ola, Russia to a family of
professional musicians, Alexandre began
piano lessons with his mother Ludmila
Philippova and continued his formal training
with Natalia Fish in the Nizhniy-Novgorod
College of Music. At the age of 16, he
received top prizes at international
competitions in the Ukraine as well as
Argentina; his performance of a selection of
Chopin Etudes at the Great Hall of the
Moscow Conservatory was recorded live and
released on the Classical Music Archives
label in Moscow. During this period,
Moutouzkine became a student of Vladimir
Krainev at the Hochschule fur Musik und
Theater in Hanover, Germany. Consequently,
he was featured alongside Krainev and
renowned Korean pianist, Kun-Woo Paik, in an
all-Prokofiev program with the Symphonic
Orchestra of the Great Hall of the Moscow
Conservatory and the Kiev National
Philharmonic Orchestra. His performance of
Prokofiev’s First Concerto was described in
the Russian and Ukrainian press as “…sprightly
and at the same time astonishingly inspired…Moutouzkine
performed not only with mastery, but also
with the magnificent brilliance and energy…”
An avid chamber musician, he has been
mentored by David Geber and Isidore Coin of
the Manhattan School of Music performing to
much critical acclaim with various ensembles
in both Europe and the U.S. including the
Fort Worth Chamber Society and Chamber Music
International.
To date, Mr. Moutouzkine has toured
throughout Germany, France, Spain, Russia,
Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Italy as well as
countries throughout North and South America.
He has appeared as soloist with the Tivoli
Symphony Orchestra, Radio Television
Orchestra of Spain, Cleveland Orchestra,
Louisiana Philharmonic, Valencia
Philharmonic, Gran Canary Symphony and
Tenerife Symphony in the Canary Islands, the
National Symphonic Orchestra of Panama, the
National Symphonic Orchestra of Cuba, and
the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra of the Czech
Republic among others. Recent performances
included a tour across the United States,
concerts throughout Europe including Rome,
Madrid and London. Alexandre’s performance
at London’s Wigmore Hall was reviewed in the
January 2007 issue of the “International
Piano” magazine as “grandly organic, with
many personal and pertinent insights,
offering a thoughtful balance between
rhetoric and fantasy…technically dazzling.”
Alexander completed his Master of Music
degree in piano performance in 2003, his
Professional Studies Program in 2005 and his
Artist Diploma Music Program under the
tutelage of Dr. Solomon Mikowsky in May of
2006 at the Manhattan School of Music. i. |
DISCOGRAPHY
2005 Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition Preliminary Round
IOD - 2005
"We discovered Alexandre Moutouzkine when he
was seventeen. This young
genius from Nizhny-Novgorod played "Islamey"
from Balakirev ,one of the most
difficult pieces of the piano repertoire, as
we had only heard it on the old
recordings. His romantic soul has developed
into one of the finest artists"
Carlo Schreiber
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