Alex Kobrin was awarded the prestigious Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the Twelfth Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition (June 2005). Immediately following this announcement, Kobrin began
his first tour to the United States including recitals at Bass Hall for the Cliburn Series and for the Washington
Performing Arts Society followed by further debuts at La Roque d’Antheron, Ravinia Festival, Beethoven
Easter Festival, Hannover Prize winners Series, Turner Sims and at the renowned Klavier-Festival Ruhr



Alex Kobrin
 

In 2006, Kobrin made his debut with the New York Philharmonic at both the Avery Fisher Hall and for the inaugural concert of the Bethel Woods Arts Centre. He was also invited to open the 06/07 season concerts with both Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Recent and  upcoming engagements include debuts at the BBC Proms, Ulster Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Wroclaw Philharmonic, Louvre, Wigmore Hall, Esplanade Concert Hall, Sheung Wan Civic Centre Hong Kong and recital tours in Italy including Palermo and Varese. Other appearances worldwide include Fort Worth Symphony, Florida West Coast Symphony, Fox Valley Symphony, Colombus Symphony, his seasonal tour to Japan and the International Chopin Piano Festival in Duszniki Zdroj (closing the Festival).  In summer 2008, Kobrin will also be making appearances at the Ruidoso Chamber Music Festival Bolzano Busoni Festival and the Gilmore Rising Star Piano Series, as well as teaching and performing at the International Keyboard Institute & Festival, Mannes.

Born in Moscow in 1980, Alex Kobrin began piano studies with Professor Tatiana Zelikman at the Gnessin Special Music School when he five. In 2003 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire where he studied under the late Professor L. Naumov.

In 1999 he was the winner of the Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy and was awarded the special prize in memory of A. Benedetti Michelangeli. Shortly following, Kobrin was second-prize winner of the 2003 Hamamtsu Competition (with no first prize awarded) which led to tours extensively throughout Europe, Asia and South America.

Alex Kobrin has collaborated with leading conductors such as Mark Elder, Claus Peter Flor, Michael Christie, Alex Lazarev, Vasily Petrenko, Tuomas Ollila,  and James Conlon and has worked with orchestras including the Orchestra Verdi di Milano, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Moscow Virtuosi, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and the Virtuosi of Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, the Osaka and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Rio Philharmonic Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, Seattle Sinfonietta, the English Chamber Orchestra.

In addition to the Cliburn Competition disc for Harmonia Mundi which was released in October 2005, Kobrin has recorded two volumes of Essential Chopin for international labels.

Alex Kobrin also teaches at the Moscow State Gnessins Academy of Music. 

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