Winner, Astral Artists’ 2009 National Auditions
The Dallas Morning News said of Russian-American pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine, “[he] 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.” Mr. Moutouzkine has toured throughout Germany, France, Spain, Russia, and Italy, and North and South America. In recent seasons, he has appeared as soloist with the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Television Orchestra of Spain, Cleveland Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic, Valencia Philharmonic, the Gran Canaria and Tenerife symphonies in the Canary Islands, the National Symphonic Orchestra of Panama, the National Symphonic Orchestra of Cuba, the Israel Philharmonic, and the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra of the Czech Republic. His recital in London’s Wigmore Hall was hailed by International Piano magazine as “grandly organic, with many personal and pertinent insights, offering a thoughtful balance between rhetoric and fantasy…technically dazzling” and his performance of Chopin Études in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory was recorded live and released on the Classical Music Archives label in Russia. Mr. Moutouzkine is a winner of Astral Artists’ 2009 National Auditions.
Highlights of the upcoming season include Mr. Moutouzkine’s Philadelphia recital debut on Astral’s series, a debut with the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, where he performs Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, a return to Symphony in C for Mozart’s C Major Concerto, K. 467, and performances of “Between the Keys,” a program of the complete solo piano works of John Corigliano. Internationally, he tours Asia with recitals in Beijing Concert Hall, Japan’s Yokohama Recital Hall, and throughout Taiwan. He also returns to the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia for a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
Recent highlights include debuts at the Great Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic in Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Berliner Symphoniker, a chamber music concert in Lincoln Center’s Kaplan Penthouse with the Jasper String Quartet, Scriabin’s Piano Concerto with the Stamford Symphony, and Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with Symphony in C. In April 2011, Mr. Moutouzkine made his debut in Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, introducing his own solo piano transcription of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite live, alongside specially commissioned animation entitled “Who Stole The Mona Lisa?”
The winner of many renowned piano competition awards, Mr. Moutouzkine recently claimed top prizes at the Walter W. Naumburg, Cleveland, Montreal, and Arthur Rubinstein international competitions, among others.
Alexandre Moutouzkine holds a Master’s degree and post-graduate degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Solomon Mikowsky. He holds undergraduate degrees from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover and Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Music Academy. He is currently a Teaching Associate at the Manhattan School of Music.
Updated: AUGUST 2011
