An Evening Concert with Alexander Gadjiev
Alexander Gadjiev - BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists 2018 - 2020
Alexander Gadjiev was born into a family of musicians in 1994, in Gorizia, Italy. He began his piano studies at the age of five with his mother, Ingrid Silic. Later on, he continued his studies with his father, a well-known Russian teacher, Siavush Gadjiev. At the age of nine, he played Haydn’s Concerto in C major with orchestra, receiving excellent reviews from the press. He gave his first solo recital at the age of ten.
Alexander has been a first prize winner in numerous competitions for young pianists. After his success at the piano competition of Ljubljana (Slovenia) he was invited to play at the festivals of Ljubljana and in Feldkirchen, Austria. In 2009 he played the Grieg Piano Concerto with “Ars Atelier” orchestra of Gorizia and at the Filarmonia of Ljubljana with the orchestra of Ljubljana Opera House. In 2010 he gave solo recitals in Trieste and in Maribor. In 2011 he played at the Dilsberg festival in Germany. In 2012 he played Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto with the orchestra RTV Slovenija.
In June 2012 he won the ninth edition of the “Premio delle Arti”, in Trieste. In the same year he graduated magna cum laude at the “Conservatorio Bruno Maderna” of Cesena. Since autumn 2013 he has been attending the Master’s degree course at prestigious “Mozarteum” of Salzburg. In November 2013 he won the thirtieth edition of the prestigious “Premio Venezia”, competition in which only magna cum laude graduated pupils are allowed to participate. In December 2015 he won the First Prize and Audience Prize at the prestigious 9th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, which figured in the jury great personalities like Martha Argerich, Sergey Babayan, Pavel Nersessyan among the others.
He was appointed a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist in 2019.
Programme
F. Chopin:
Polonaise Op.44
Mazurkas Op.56
Sonata No. 2
F. Liszt :
Funerailles
Six Etudes d’execution transcendante -
Nos. 1, 2, 4, 8, 11 and 12
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