Alexander Gavrylyuk (Alexander Gavrylyuk) |
Alexander Gavrylyuk
Oleksandr Gavrilyuk was born in 1984 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and began learning to play the piano at the age of 7. At the age of 9, he performed on stage for the first time.
In 1996, he became a laureate of the Senigalia Piano Competition (Italy), and a year later he received second prize at the II International Piano Competition. V. Horowitz in Kyiv. At the next, III competition. W. Horowitz (1999) pianist won the first prize and a gold medal.
After winning the IV Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in 2000, Japanese critics called Alexander Gavrilyuk “the best 16-year-old pianist of the late 16th century” (musicians aged 32 to 2007 participated in the competition, and Alexander became the youngest laureate of this competition) . Since then, the pianist has regularly performed in Japanese concert halls – Suntory Hall and Tokyo Opera City Hall, and has also recorded his first two CDs in Japan. Concerts by A. Gavrilyuk were also held in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, New York’s Lincoln Center and many other major halls in the world. In XNUMX, at the invitation of Nikolai Petrov, Alexander Gavrilyuk gave solo concerts in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and the Kremlin Armory, in subsequent years he repeatedly performed in Moscow and other cities of Russia.
In 2005, the musician’s list of victories was replenished with the first prize, a gold medal and a special prize “for the best performance of a classical concerto” at the X International Competition. Arthur Rubinstein in Tel Aviv. In the same year, VAI International released a CD and DVD of the pianist’s performances at the Miami Piano Festival (works by Haydn, Brahms, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Chopin, Mendelssohn – Liszt – Horowitz). This disc received the highest ratings from the international press. In May 2007, A. Gavrilyuk recorded a second DVD at the same company (Bach – Busoni, Mozart, Mozart – Volodos, Schubert, Moshkovsky, Balakirev, Rachmaninov).
From 1998 to 2006 Alexander Gavrilyuk lived in Sydney (Australia). In 2003, he became an artist for Steinway. His concert activity in Australia includes recitals at the Sydney Opera House, City Recital Hall in Sydney, as well as appearances with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra.
Alexander Gavrilyuk has collaborated with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia. E. F. Svetlanova, Russian National Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Philharmonic Orchestras of Rotterdam, Osaka, Seoul, Warsaw, Israel, Royal Scottish Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony, Orchestra of Italian Switzerland, UNAM Philharmonic Orchestra (Mexico), Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra (USA) ), Israel Chamber Orchestra. The pianist’s partners were such conductors as V. Ashkenazi, Y. Simonov, V. Fedoseev, M. Gorenstein, A. Lazarev, V. Spivakov, D. Raiskin, T. Sanderling, D. Tovey, H. Blomstedt, D. Ettinger , I. Gruppman, L. Segerstam, Y. Sudan, O. Cayetani, D. Ettinger, S. Lang-Lessing, J. Talmy.
The pianist regularly participates in major music festivals around the world, including festivals in Lugano (Switzerland), Colmar (France), Ruhr (Germany), Miami, Chateauqua, Colorado (USA).
After his stunning debut in the Master Pianists Series at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in February 2009, A. Gavrilyuk received an invitation to perform again with a solo concert in the same series in the 2010-2011 season.
In November 2009, Alexander performed and recorded all of Prokofiev’s piano concertos with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
In 2010 Alexander Gavrilyuk toured in Holland, Australia, Austria, Great Britain, Israel, Iceland, Italy, Canada, USA, France, Switzerland, Sweden. Played three times in the Concert Hall. P.I. Tchaikovsky (in February – with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and Yuri Simonov, in April – a solo concert, in December – with the State Orchestra of Russia named after E.F. Svetlanov and Mark Gorenstein). Has performed with the Russian National Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestras of Sydney, Quebec, Vancouver, Tokyo, Norrköping, the NHK Corporation, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, The Hague Resident Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestras of New York, Los Angeles, Brussels, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rhineland State Philharmonic Orchestra -Palatinate (Germany), Orchestre de Paris and others. In May, the pianist made his debut with the Royal Orchestra Concertgebouw conducted by Mikhail Pletnev. Participated in festivals in Lugano and Vladimir Spivakov in Colmar. In October 2010, Alexander performed with the Moscow Virtuosi orchestra and toured Russia with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia conducted by Vladimir Spivakov (including participating in the closing concert of the XI Sakharov Festival in Nizhny Novgorod). He played with the same orchestra in November at the House of Music.
In the 2010–2011 season Alexander Gavrilyuk recorded both Chopin Concertos at the Royal Wawel Castle in Krakow (Poland). In April 2011 he recorded a new CD at the Piano classics studio with works by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Prokofiev. The pianist’s tour of Japan included both solo concerts and performances with the NHK Orchestra conducted by V. Ashkenazy. Among the highlights of 2011 are concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Hollywood, the Royal Scottish Orchestra, a solo tour of Russia, concerts in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Spain (Canary Islands), the Netherlands and Poland, participation in the Master Pianist Series concerts in Concertgebouw, master classes at the Chautauqua Institute.
In 2012 Alexander will perform in New Zealand and Australia with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Christchurch, Sydney and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras. His engagements also include performances with the Brabant Orchestras, The Hague, Seoul and Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestras, the Polish National Radio Orchestras, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Saturday morning concerts at the Concertgebouw). The pianist plans to tour Mexico and Russia, recitals in Taiwan, Poland and the USA.
In May 2013 Alexander will make his debut with the Orchestra of Romand Switzerland conducted by Neeme Järvi. The program includes all concertos for piano and orchestra and Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Source: Moscow Philharmonic website
