Russian pianist *Dmitri Alexeev* is one of the world’s most highly regarded artists. His critically praised recitals on the world’s leading concert stages and his concert appearances with the most prestigious orchestras have secured his position as one of “the most remarkable pianists of the day” (Daily Telegraph).
He has performed with most of the major orchestras in the world, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the five London orchestras, Orchestre de Paris, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Santa Cecilia in Rome, NHK Orchestra in Tokyo and many others. He has worked with conductors such as Ashkenazy, Boulez, Svetlanov, Dorati, Gatti, Gergiev, Giulini, Jansons, Muti, Pappano, Rozhdestvensky, Salonen, Temirkanov, Tilson Thomas and Tennstedt to name just a few.
Dmitri Alexeev was born in Moscow and began to play the piano at the age of five. One year later his talent took him to the Moscow Central Music School and then to the Moscow Conservatoire, where his professor was the eminent Soviet pianist Dmitri Bashkirov. Whilst pursuing graduate studies, he participated in several international competitions, capturing top honors at the 1969 Marguerite Long Competition in Paris, at the 1970 George Enescu Competition in Bucharest, and at the 1974 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In 1975 he was unanimously awarded first prize at the Leeds International Competition in England (it is worth mentioning that the Second and Third prize winners were Mitsuko Uchida and Andras Schiff).
Despite of many difficulties created by the Soviet regime at that time, Dmitri Alexeev achieved worldwide recognition when he has made concert tours throughout Europe, the United States, Scandinavia, Japan, Australia and Hong Kong, appearing at the most important musical centres of the world. He has performed, among others, at the Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Prague Spring and Maggio Musicale (Florence) Festivals, and has collaborated on chamber music with artists such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Yuri Bashmet, Joshua Bell, Lynn Harrell as well as singers Barbara Hendricks,Nicolai Gedda and Elisabeth Soderstrom.
Dmitri Alexeev made a world premiere of Penderecki’s Piano Sextet in the Musikferein (Vienna) and in Paris as well as world premiere of his Piano Concerto at the Beijing Festival.
During recent seasons he was Artistic Director of the Leeds International Recital Series and for the season 2013-14 he has been appointed as Artistic Director (Artist in Residence) of Concert Series in the Netherlands.
During last few years Dmitri Alexeev was a member of a jury for many prestigious International Piano Competitions including Leeds, Van Cliburn, Santander, Beethoven in Vienna, Tchaikovsky in Moscow, Geneva etc. He is regularly doing Masterclasses around the world.
Dmitri Alexeev has made many fine recordings for EMI, BMG, Virgin Classics, Hyperion and Russian labels. His discs include piano concertos by Schumann, Grieg, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Scriabin, Medtner and solo works by Brahms, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt. Following his Virgin Classics recording of the complete Rachmaninov Preludes, which won the Edison Award in the Netherlands, BBC Music Magazine said: “He is a pianist at once aristocratic, grand and confessionally poetic. This is an inspiring disc.”
In December 2012 his recording of complete Scriabin Piano Sonatas was released. It will be followed by the complete Scriabin Etudes. During 2013 he is going to make a recording of complete Chopin Mazurkas.
