Alexander Pirozhenko (Piano)
Aleksandr Pirozhenko is a pianist and the winner of a number of
international competitions.
Aleksandr Pirozhenko was born in Leningrad. In 2003 he has
graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory and in 2005 he has finished his
postgraduate studies in the class of Professor A.M. Sandler. He has also done
postgraduate studies at the Higher School of Music in Hanover (Hochschule fur
Musik und Theater Hannover) in the class of Professor A. Vardy.
The musician performs regularly solo programs and as a soloist
with orchestras in Russia and abroad, including such countries as Estonia,
Latvia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Germany, Austria, France, UK, USA, Netherlands,
Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Japan, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and other
countries. Aleksandr Pirozhenko is a winner of many international competitions.
Among the awards are the first prizes at Competition named after Ettore Pozzoli
in Italy, at the Competitions of concert performers in New York, Ibiza, and in
Newport (UK).
Aleksandr Pirozhenko has performed under direction of such
well-known conductors as Nikolai Alexeyev, Alexander Dmitriev, Sergei Stadler,
Vladimir Altschuler, Alexander Sladkovsky, Eduard Serov, Arkady Schteinluht,
Alexander Chernushenko, Tugan Sokhiev, Hobart Earle, Imants Reznis, Michael
Stern, George Mester, Grant Llewellyn , Ulf Schirmer, Nicholas Carthy, Neil
Varon, En Shao and others.
Since 2006, Aleksandr Pirozhenko teaches at the Department of
special piano at St. Petersburg Conservatory. The musician has given numerous
master classes in the U.S., Ukraine, Italy. He is a jury member at international
competitions in Spain and Ukraine.
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