Alexandre Moutouzkine

The career of pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine, who emerged in 2017 not with a typical Beethoven-Brahms-Prokofiev recital, but having a delightfully varied album of most but unfamiliar Cuban piano music, was international from an early on age. He’s denoted as Russian, but he in fact was created in 1980 in Yoshkar-Ola in the Soviet Union’s ethnically varied Mari Republic. His 1st instructor was his mom. He analyzed in Nizhny Novgorod, but by 16 was benefiting from fresh Russian freedoms and journeyed so far as Argentina searching for prizes. A large one, a Jury Discretionary Award, arrived his method in the 11th Vehicle Cliburn Competition in Tx in 2001. Moutouzkine grabbed the interest of the neighborhood Dallas Morning Information with his shows of Brahms’ Intermezzi, Op. 117. He analyzed with Vladimir Krainev in the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover and toured broadly in European countries, Russia, and Latin America like a recitalist and in chamber music. Graduate education forced Moutouzkine to a fresh level: he joined the Manhattan College of Music in 2003 and continued for master’s, professional research, and Designer Diploma levels there over another 3 years. His main instructor was Solomon Mikowsky, a Cuban of Russian history, who experienced immigrated to america after earning a reward in 1956 and remained on following the trend. Russian pianists had been popular in Cuba through the Fidel Castro period, however the orientation of Moutouzkine’s initial record, Piano Music of Cuba, emerged straight from Mikowsky. Connecticut’s Greenwich Resident raved after a Moutouzkine efficiency of Rachmaninov’s officially brutal Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30, how the pianist was “outperforming also the composer himself.” The Cliburn Celebration honor continues to be accompanied by a series of other awards, including a first-place honor at the brand new Orleans Piano Competition in 2004. Moutouzkine became a member of the faculty from the Manhattan College of Music himself in 2013. He provides organized Stravinsky’s Firebird Collection for single piano and provides performed the task as accompaniment for an cartoon film entitled Who Stole the Mona Lisa?