Alexandre Moutouzkine
Alexandre Moutouzkine (born in Yoshkar-Ola in 1980) is a Russian pianist. He is active through Europe and the USA.
Alexandre Moutouzkine burst onto the U.S. concert scene at the age of nineteen, after garnering a Jury Discretionary Award 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 an impressive array of international competitions. He claimed top prizes at the Cleveland International Piano Competition (receiving Third Prize, the Beethoven Prize and the Junior Jury’s First Prize), Tivoli International Piano Competition (Copenhagen, Denmark), the Andorra International Piano Competition, the José Iturbi International Piano Competition (Valencia), the New Orleans International Piano Competition, Maria Canals International Music Competition (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 shared Second Prize at the Montreal International Music Competition which was held this past June.
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 Cohen 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.”
Alexandre 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 2006 at the Manhattan School of Music.
| Year | Competition | Prize | Ex-aequo with... | 1st prize winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 |  VIII A.M.A. Calabria | 1st prize | ||
| 2001 |  VIII Pilar Bayona | 3rd prize | Domenico Codispoti | |
| 2002 | XLVIII María Canals, Barcelona | 2nd prize |  Kook Hee Hong |  Viv McLean |
| 2002 |  XXVI Frinna Awerbuch, New York | 1st prize | ||
| 2003 | X Città di Sulmona | 2nd prize | Roberto Corlianò | |
| 2003 |  II Ignacio Cervantes, La Habana | 2nd prize | Patricio Malcolm | Marcos Madrigal |
| 2003 | IX Fundación Guerrero, Madrid | 1st prize | ||
| 2004 | XIV José Iturbi, Valencia | 1st prize | ||
| 2004 | New Orleans Competition | 1st prize | ||
| 2005 |  VI Premi Principat d'Andorra | 1st prize | ||
| 2005 | III ISANGYUN | 4th prize |  Victoria Kortchinskaia | |
| 2006 |  I Tivoli, Copenhague | 2nd prize | Ning An | |
| 2007 | XVII Cleveland Competition | 3rd prize |  Aleksandr Ghindin | |