• Prize-winner at the Johannes Brahms
International Competition (Austria, 2003)
Alexei Lukirsky was born in Kharkov in Ukraine in 1976. He
began to study the violin at the age of six.
In 1995 he entered the school of the Moscow State
Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, and from 2001 to 2009 he was a postgraduate
student and trainee at the Moscow Conservatoire (class
of Professor Sergei Kravchenko).
At the age of ten Alexei Lukirsky began to collaborate as
a soloist with the Kharkov Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1999
to 2009 he was leader of the orchestra of the Bolshoi
Theatre of Russia. Since 2009 he has been leader of the Mariinsky
Orchestra.
Over the years in his profession, Alexei Lukirsky has worked with
numerous outstanding musicians. In addition to his capacity as
a leader, on several occasions he has featured in chamber
ensembles and performed as a soloist throughout Russia and Europe.