Dmitri Alexeev Piano

This great poet of the piano warmed his brilliantly articulated playing with a ripe, ringing core to each note. Hilary Finch, The Times 27 April 2005

Dmitri Alexeev entered the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory at the age of six. After graduating he studied with Dmitri Bashkirov and thereafter won prizes in several major competitions including first prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 1975, the first such achievement by a Russian Artist.

Since then he has enjoyed a top-level international career and has appeared both as a recitalist and as a soloist throughout Europe, Japan, Australasia, the Far East and the United States. Major orchestras he has performed with include the London Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw and Philadelphia Orchestras, the Berlin, St. Petersburg and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras as well as the Orchestre de Paris and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

Highlights of recent seasons have included several performances at the Leeds International Recital Series, of which Alexeev was Artistic Director during 2009, a return to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Gatti, concerts with the Helsingborg Symphony, KBS (Korea) Symphony and St. Petersburg Philharmonic orchestras and a recital tour of Canada and North America.

His distinguished discography, mainly on EMI Classics, includes piano works by Brahms, Chopin and Rachmaninov and concertos by Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Grieg and Schumann.

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