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Alexander
Gavrylyuk
July
12, 2008
Winner of the
11th Arthur Rubinstein Masters Piano Competition 2005. Winner
of the 4th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition Japan 2000.
Winner of the 3rd Horowitz International Piano Competition in
Ukraine in 1999.
Alexander Gavrylyuk
was born in 1984 in the Ukraine and began his piano studies at
the age of seven. He gave his first concerto performance when
he was nine years old. In 1996 he was a prize winner in Senigalia,
Italy and in 1997 was a 2nd prize winner at the Second Horowitz
International Piano Competition in Kiev. The next big step for
Alexander was going back to compete at the Third Horowitz International
Piano Competition and winning the coveted First prize and Gold
medal in 1999 .
Proclaimed as
“the best sixteen year old pianist of the late twentieth
century” by critics in Japan in November 2000 after winning
First Prize in the prestigious Hamamatsu International piano
Competition in Japan. He was 16 years old in a field of competitors
ranging in age from 16 to 32. Alexander returns regularly, touring
Japan and performing to a full house in Suntory Hall and Tokyo
Opera City Hall. He recorded his first two CD’s in Japan.
Alexander lived
in Sydney, Australia from 1998-2006. His Australian performances
include the 'Stars of the Future' series at Government House
in 1998, Proms concert for the Festival of Sydney (1999), the
Rachmaninov and Prokofiev Festivals of Piano Concertos (1998,
1999). He has numerously performed for both radio (ABC Classic
FM) and television (ABC and SBS). His Australian concert activities
in more recent years include recitals at the Sydney Opera House,
City Recital Hall in Sydney as well as performances with the
Melbourne Symphony and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra’s
in 2006.
In April 2005,
Alexander won the First Prize, Gold Medal as well as the Best
Performance of a Classical Concerto in the internationally renowned
Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition. That
year, VAI International recorded his live performance at the
Miami Piano Discoveries Festival, USA, for international DVD
release which went on to receive four and five star ratings in
the international press.
Alexander has
performed with the Russian National Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic, Warsaw
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, the, Kiev
Philharmonic Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony, and Western Australia
Symphony. Gavrylyuk has performed with conductors Spivakov, Segerstam,
Fedoseyev, Gruppman, and Ettinger.
In January 2007
Alexander had his solo debut recital at the Great Hall of the
Moscow Conservatorium at the invitation of Nikolay Petrov. Currently
based in Moscow, Alexander has also performed a solo recital
at the Kremlin. This year Alexander is scheduled to appear in
Australia, Canada, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Portugal,
Russia, Taipei, and the USA. In May he will record his second
DVD with VAI in Miami. |
