 ALEXANDER KARPEYEV
piano
Alexander Karpeyev was born in 1983 in Saratov, Russia, and started to play the piano at the age of 7, studying with Natalie Novikova at the children’s music school in Saratov. In 1997, he continued his musical studies with Valentine Podgaynaya at the Musical-Aesthetic Lyceum in Engels. In 2000, he entered the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, studying with Professor Vera Gornostayeva, People’s Artist of the USSR, and also Professor Emmanuel Monaszon.
Alexander has won a number of major piano prizes at the following international competitions : 1998 Ibla Grand Prize, Raguza, Italy; 2001 International Competition for Young Musicians in Enschede, The Netherlands; 2004, Piano Competition Arthur Rubinstein in memoriam, Bydgoszcz, Poland; 2004 Adilia Alieva Piano Competition, Gaillard, France and 2006 Tunbridge Wells International Competition, England.
In September, 2005, he won a scholarship to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he is studying with Professor Joan Havill. Since coming to the UK he has already performed at the Cadogan Hall, Royal Academy of Music, Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, and has given solo recitals at Oxford, Cambridge, Winchester, and at Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank.
In 2007, he was awarded First Prize and Audience Prize at the Dudley International Competition.
‘ Karpeyev’s artistic maturity was palpable, and it shone through every bar of his closing item - a commanding performance of the Sonata in B minor by Liszt. The grasp of large scale structure, the huge dynamic and tonal range, and above all, the flood-tide of emotion that swept from first bar to last, all made this performance worthy in its own right of the First Prize finally awarded to Karpeyev.’ The Birmingham Post, 22nd May, 2007
PROGRAMME:
TCHAIKOVSKY: Thème originale et variations,
Op. 19, No. 6
BRAHMS:
Klavierstücke,
Op. 118
SCHUMANN:
Toccata, Op. 7
MEDTNER:
Sonata, Op. 25, No. 2 ‘Night Wind’
www.akarpeyev.com
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