Alexander Vorontsov

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Pianist Alexander Vorontsov belongs to a generation of outstanding young musicians who are breaking new ground in classical music. As a chamber musician and soloist, he designs programmes that aim to create social and artistic added value. Thanks to his quick perception and flexibility as a pianist, he also works in many different projects with actors and dancers in concert halls, theatres and unusual venues.

Born in 1995, the pianist of Russian origin is characterised by his transparent, highly sensitive playing as well as his well thought-out interpretations. His focus as a musician lies in the balance of intellect and intuition as well as the expression of the diversity of sound in the context of the musical epoch and form. The music critic Barbara Kaiser described him as one of the "musically most intelligent piano players of his age group".

Alexander, who comes from a musical and sporty family, started playing the piano at the age of four. He started with his mother until he began his early studies at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media at the age of eleven. Until he began his studies, his teachers were Mikhail Shalamov, Elena Margolina-Hait and Hinrich Alpers. In 2013, he began his piano studies with the Finnish pianist Matti Raekallio, and in 2017 Alexander moved to the class of Lars Vogt, who accompanied him as a teacher and mentor until his death.

Alexander received further musical inspiration at numerous masterclasses such as the Piano Academy Eppan or IMS Prussia Cove, including with professors Andrea Bonatta, Eberhard Feltz, Bernd Goetzke, Claudio Martinez-Mehner, Arie Vardi and Gabor Takasz-Nagy. In 2017, he was a member of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation's "concerto21" academy and has been a pianist in the TONALiSTEN network since 2016. He is also a long-standing scholarship holder of the German Foundation for Musical Life and was the first scholarship holder to receive a grand piano on loan from Klangmanufaktur Hamburg in 2023.

As a soloist and chamber music partner, Alexander has many years of international concert experience, which has taken him to venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg and numerous countries in Europe and Asia. He has also performed in chamber music concerts with artists such as Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Yura Lee, Alban Gerhardt and Gustav Rivinius.

He has performed at festivals such as the Kissinger Sommer, "Spannungen" Heimbach, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the PODIUM Festival Esslingen, the Mozartfest Würzburg and the Trans-Siberian Art Festival and has made radio recordings for NDR Kultur.