ALEXANDER GHINDIN

Alexander Ghindin ist heute einer der gefragtesten Pianisten Russlands. Musikliebhaber und die Medien bezeichnen ihn einstimmig als einen der führenden und originellsten Musiker unserer Zeit.

Er war im Alter von nur 17 Jahren der bislang jüngste Preisträger des internationalen Tchaikovsky Wettbewerbs. Weitere Auszeichnungen erhielt er bei der Cleveland International Piano Competition, beim internationalen Klavierwettbewerb von Santa Catarina in Brasilien und bei der Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition in Brüssel.

Höhepunkte in der jüngsten Vergangenheit waren seine Konzerte mit dem Cleveland Orchestra, dem London Philharmonic Orchestra, den Münchner Philharmonikern, dem Berliner Konzerthausorchester, dem Swedish Royal Festival Orchestra, dem Orchestre National de Belgique, dem Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, dem Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, dem Orchestre National de Montpellier, dem Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, dem Israel Chamber Orchestra und dem Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra sowie mit sämtlichen Spitzenorchestern Russlands.

Alexander Ghindin arbeitete auch mit prominenten Dirigenten wie Vladimir Fedosseyev, Saulus Sandeczkis, Vasily Sinaysky, Yuri Simonov, Dimitry Kitaenko, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Vladimir Spivakov, Vladimir Verbitsky, Paavo Järvi, Alan Gilbert, Leonard Slatkin, Artur Fagen, Tomasso Placidi und Thomas Sanderling zusammen.

Er trat bei zahlreichen internationalen Musikfestivals auf und gab hunderte von Konzerten in den bekanntesten Konzertsälen in London, New York, Washington, Tokio, Brüssel, Amsterdam, Paris, München, Warschau, Prag, Stockholm, Rom, Tel Aviv sowie in allen namhaften Theatern in seinem Heimatland.

Alexander Ghindin studierte bei Mikhail Voskresensky am Moskauer Tchaikovsky Konservatorium. Im Jahr 2006 wurde er zum künstlerischen Leiter einer eigenen Konzertreihe in der Svetlanov Hall des Moscow International Performing Arts Centre, eines der herausragendsten Kulturzentren des gesamten Landes, berufen.

“It must have been the thrill of their relatively young lives, playing a cornerstone of the repertory with the Cleveland Orchestra in Severance Hall. The lucky – and gifted – four were the finalists in the 17th biennial Cleveland International Piano Competition. It was Alexander Ghindin of Russia who garnered the whopping first prize for a series of muscular and assured performances, including a grandly conceived account of Liszt’s b-minor Sonata in the semi-finals and a potent and nuanced reading of Rachmaninov’s Third Concerto. Of the four, only Ghindin possessed the stage maturity of a world-class professional pianist.”
MUSICAL AMERICA

“Mr. Ghindin ended by conquering the devilish demands of Liszt’s Sonata in b-minor, the highlight of the evening. The enthusiastic audience was rewarded with three encores.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES

“A full week before he won first prize in the 2007 Cleveland International Piano Competition, Russian Alexander Ghindin leapt to the front of the pack with expressive and dazzling performances of Schumann’s Kinderszenen and three movements from Stravinsky’s Petrouchka. It was immediately apparent that Ghindin had something special to offer. Ghindin is a dynamic artist who also wraps his heart around lyrical phrases. Put another way, he has the power and speed of a virtuoso, plus the perception and poise needed to explore the inner workings of a score.”
THE PLAIN DEALER

“Ghindin splendid with Rachmaninov – One could have imagined Rachmaninov himself at the keyboard with an Ormandy-era Philadelphia Orchestra behind him as guest soloist Alexander Ghindin tore into the Rachmaninov First Piano Concerto with Kevin Rhodes at the helm of the Springfield Symphony. It was that good. In pre-concert interviews, Rhodes made grand promises for Ghindin’s performance; Ghindin and everyone on stage delivered the goods, utterly justifying the standing ovation that swept the crowd.”
THE REPUBLICAN

“In the case of the Piano Concerto No. 3 in C-major by Prokofiev, as performed by Alexander Ghindin, were talking a whole lot of real, honest notes played extraordinarily well. He is one of those rare pianists who combine expressiveness with finely honed technique, so that every note he plays is struck with laser-like precision, yet each passage is so perfectly phrased that the music sounds as if he is improvising on the spot – that the soloist is not so much playing along with the orchestra as challenging it, duelling with it. Ghindin responded to the heartfelt standing ovation he received with an encore that was completely surprising and completely wonderful – John Philip Sousas ‘The Stars and Stripes Forever’, performed in a way that can only be described as orchestral.”
TULSA WORLD

“Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 can be a trial if the music isn’t treated with absolute seriousness. From the brooding opening chords, Ghindin seemed to announce that he would not be a show-off or resort to bombast and cliché. Instead, he emphasized the music’s lyricism and connective tissue, stepping to the forefront when the piano needs to play protagonist and weaving the filigreed material deftly into the orchestral sound scapes. Ghindin refused to glide across the surface, preferring to keep the limber folk elements in controlled, quicksilver focus.”
THE CHAUTAUQUAN DAILY

“The history of musical competitions shows that only a handful of top-prize winners go on to major concert careers. But Ghindin’s first recital here since taking first prize in August confirmed that he is no pianistic fluke. He was poetic and charismatic in ‘From Russia with Love’, his program at the Cleveland Institute of Music. The advertising turned out to be truthful: The repertoire remained firmly entrenched in the pianists homeland, and he played as if he adored each of the gazillion notes his fingers projected.”
THE PLAIN DEALER

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