About Alexander Moutouzkine - www.moutouzkine.com

Alexander 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…” This success was soon followed by solo recital appearances including a Kravis Center debut in South Florida, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC as well as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in 2002 as grand prize winner of the 26th Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition.

Winner of the St. Petersburg International Piano Competition at the age of 14, Moutouzkine is the laureate of numerous international competitions. He claimed top prizes at the 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), the Mieczyslav Munz (New York), and the Panama International Piano Competition. Most recently, Moutouzkine was the winner of Primer Gran Premio at “Jose Iturbi” and the Gold Medal at the New Orleans International Piano Competition and also captured First Prize and the Gold Medal at the XI International Piano Competition of Escaldes-Engordany in Andorra, as well as, the Second Prize and the Audience Favorite Award in Tivoli Compeititon in Copenhagen.

Born in Yoshkar-Ola, Russia to a family of professional musicians, Moutouzkine 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; and 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 claimed 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, 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 Radio Television Orchestra of Spain, Louisiana Philharmonic, Brooklyn Symphony, 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 performance activities include a CD recording at the Spanish National Classical Radio Station and debut recitals in Vienna, Rome, concerts in Paris, Barcelona, Rimini, Tenerife, Zaragoza, Auditorio “Pablo Casals” in El Vendrell and New York. His recital at the Fundacion Canal in Madrid was broadcast live on National Spanish Television.

Moutouzkine completed his Master Of Music degree in piano performance in 2003 and his Artist Diploma Music Program under the tutelage of Dr. Solomon Mikowsky in May of 2006.