Alexander Orlov

Age:
27

Country of Birth:
Russia

Country of Citizenship:
Russia

Currently Residing In:
Russia

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Musical Selection

Alexander Orlov was born in Moscow, where he began his piano studies at age six at the Moscow Special Gnessin School of Music, continuing at the Academic Music College of Moscow Conservatory in 1995. He studied piano with Alexander Mndoyants at Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and organ with Oleg Jantchenko and Alexei Semenov. Mr. Orlov is currently a post-graduate at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and a teacher at the Moscow State Classical Academy. He has performed solo and chamber recitals in the concert halls of Moscow and many other cities across Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania. He took part in international music festivals in Moscow and Belarus and has played concerts with orchestras for radio and TV broadcasts, such as Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 in Lipetsk and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in Montréal. Mr. Orlov was the recipient of a scholarship from the Russian Culture Foundation in 2003 and won second prize at the Piano Competition of Moscow Conservatory the same year. In 2004, he was a finalist of the International Piano Competition of Montréal. In 2006, Mr. Orlov received first prize at the international competition "Music without Limits" in Lithuania and second prize and silver medal at the international competition Premio Rovere d'Oro in Italy.

Solo Repertoire

Johann Sebastian Bach:
Prelude and Fugue in B Major, BWV 892, from the Well Tempered Clavier, Book 2

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 90

Franz Schubert:
Sonata in B-Flat Major, D. 960

Frédéric Chopin:
Polonaise-Fantasy in A-Flat Major, Op. 61

César Franck:
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue

Sergei Rachmaninov:
Etude-tableau in A Minor, Op. 39, No. 6
Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 36 (1931)

Dimtri Shostakovich:
Prelude and Fugue in D Minor, Op. 87, No. 24

Required Piece

Robert Palmer:
Toccata Ostinato

Trio

Johannes Brahms:
Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101

Concertos

Franz Liszt:
Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major

Sergei Rachmaninov:
Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18

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