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Alexander Karpeyev (piano) - Sunday 14 February at 11:00 AM
Blackheath Halls
Alexander Karpeyev began playing the piano at the age of 7, studying at the Children’s Music School in Saratov and afterwards at the Musical-Aesthetic Lyceum in Engels. In 2000 he entered the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he studied with Professors Alexander Mndoyants, Emmanuel Monaszon and Vera Gornostayeva. He graduated with the highest honours in 2005 and won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he is a student of Professor Joan Havill. He is currently pursuing a doctorate arranged jointly with City University of London.
Alexander has been a major prizewinner in many international competitions including the 1998 Ibla Grand Prize, Ragusa, Italy; the 2001 International Competition for Young Musicians, Enschede, Netherlands; the 2004 Competition Arthur Rubinstein in memoriam, Bydgoszcz, Poland; the 2004 Adilia Alieva International Piano Competition, Gaillard, France; the 2006 Tunbridge Wells International Concert Artist Competition and the 2009 Amy Brant International Piano competition, Birmingham (UK). He won First Prize at the 2006 Oxford Music Festival’s Professional Piano Recital Competition, the 2007 Dudley International Piano Competition and the Norah Sande Award 2008. He was awarded The Worshipful Company of Musician's Silver Medal in 2008.
Alexander has given recitals in a number of major venues in the UK (Barbican Hall, Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London; Bridgewater Hall in Manchester). Abroad, he has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Belgium, Greece, Japan, Poland, Russia, Spain and Switzerland. He has also featured on the Performance Channel of Sky Television and BBC Radio 3.
Recent highlights include consecutive performances of Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto with the Amadeus Orchestra to capacity audiences in Wells and Exeter Cathedrals.
Programme
Brahms Six Piano Pieces, Op.118
Schumann Toccata in C, Op.7
INTERVAL
Medtner Novelles (3) for piano, Op.17
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No.7 in B flat, Op.83
This concert is produced in association with the Kirckman Concert Society, which acknowledges support from the LangkellyChase Foundation
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Tickets: £13.50 (£11 concessions)
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