Schedule for Alexander Ghindin recital (piano). Bach. Tchaikovsky. Rachmaninoff 2022

Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Composer: Modest Mussorgsky
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: Franz Schubert
Composer: Sergey Rachmaninov
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Piano: Alexander Gindin
Composer: Ferencz Liszt

Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra

PROGRAMME:
Antonio Vivaldi – Johann Sebastian Bach
Organ Concerto in D Minor, BWV 596 (arranged for piano by William Murdoch)

Franz Schubert – Franz Liszt
Der Muller und der Bach
Barcarolle
Litanie
Der Doppelgänger
Der Erlkonig

Sergei Prokofiev
The suite Peter and the Wolf (arranged for piano by Tatiana Nikolaeva)

Modest Musorgsky – Sergei Rachmaninoff
Hopak from the opera The Fair at Sorochintsy)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Sergei Rachmaninoff
Flight of the Bumblebee from the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan

Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Sergei Rachmaninoff
Cradle Song

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sonata No 2 in B Flat Minor, Op. 36 (second version)

ALEXANDER GINDIN

Piano
• Honoured Artist of Russia

Alexander Ghindin has been unanimously acclaimed by critics and music lovers as one of the most talented and original pianists of the present day.
Born in 1977 in Moscow.
Before entering the Conservatoire in 1994, at the age of seventeen he became the youngest-ever prize-winner at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and is quickly establishing himself as one of the most sought-after pianists of his generation.
He later took 2nd prize at the International Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition in Brussels in 1999. These successes assisted the launch of the pianist’s extremely intense recital activities.
In 2007 he won 1st prize at the International Piano Competition in Cleveland (USA) and was engaged for over fifty concerts in the USA. According to critics, he “made a staggering impression on the audience, demonstrating such a high level of mastery that makes every one of his performances special and unforgettable.” (Art and Life).
In July 2010 Alexander Ghindin won 1st prize at the International Piano Competition of Santa Catarina (Florianуpolis, Brazil).
In 2001 Ondine records released the world premiere recording of the original version of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto Nos. 1 and 4 performed by Alexander Ghindin together with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Alexander Ghindin is a frequent jury member of such competitions as the Nutcracker Young Performers’ International TV Competition (2004, 2006, 2009 and 2011), the I Russian Music Competition (Moscow, 2010) and the International Piano Competition in Cleveland (USA, 2011).
Since 2006, Alexander Ghindin has been Artistic Director of his own concert series at one of Russia’s most distinguished concert venues, the Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow International Performing Arts Centre, where he has performed unique programmes including a recital of four pianos, a duo programme for piano and organ and American music for two pianos, also featuring other instruments.
That same year, as part of the prestigious Osaka Festival, Alexander Ghindin gave a series of concerts with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and performed at Suntory Hall.
Alexander Ghindin is also an International Artistic Co-Director of the Swedish Royal Festival and an Artistic Director of the festival A Tribute to Knushevitsky in Saratov, Russia.
Alexander Ghindin tours successfully throughout Russia and abroad.
The pianist has performed with such major Russian and international orchestras as the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Russian National Orchestra, the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the Moscow Virtuosi ensemble, the St Petersburg Camerata Orchestra of the State Hermitage, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Salzburg Camerata, the Rotterdam Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestras of London, Helsinki, Luxemburg, Liиge, Freiburg, Monte Carlo and Munich, Japan’s Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and the New Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra to name but a few.
Conductors the pianist has collaborated with include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Vladimir Spivakov, Vladimir Minin, Arnold Katz, Yuri Simonov, Dmitri Kitayenko, Fuat Mansurov, Vasily Sinaisky, Alexander Lazarev, Saulius Sondeckis, Alan Gilbert, Krzysztof Penderecki, Paavo Jдrvi, James DePreist, Leonard Slatkin, Louis Langrйe, Eliahu Inbal, Arthur Fagen, David Shallon and Juozas Domarkas.
Alexander Ghindin is a regular participant at international music festivals. He has appeared at the Russian festivals Russian Winter, Stars at the Kremlin, The New Century of Russian Piano Music, Vladimir Spivakov Invites, Musical Kremlin and the International Sakharov Arts Festival as well as the Swedish Royal Festival in Stockholm, the Robert Casadesus International Piano Encounters in Lille, the Vladimir Spivakov Festival in Colmar, the Radio France Festival, Folle journйe (France), Bad Kissengen Sommer (Germany), the  Rising Stars festival (Poland), Days of Russian Culture in Moravia (Czech Republic), the Ruhr Piano Festival (Germany) and festivals in Echternach, La Roque-d’Anthйron, Brussels, Limoges, Lille, Cracow, Rome, Sintra and Sicily.
The musician has made numerous recordings on television and radio in Russia, Belgium, Germany, France, Luxemburg, Poland and Japan. He has released twenty-four CDs with leading recording companies in Russia, France, Great Britain, Germany, Finland and Japan including Decca, Capriccio, Ondine, Tri-M Classics, Russian Season (the Russian partner of Le Chant du Monde), DML, CD Accord and Naxos among others.