Russian-American pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine has appeared as a soloist with more than 60 orchestras across Europe, North and South America, and Asia. These include the Cleveland Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Israel Camerata, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow and Kiev Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra.
As a recitalist and chamber musician, Alexandre has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium and Zankel Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Kimmel Center, the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, Royal Hall in London, the Grand Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie, the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the National Arts Centres of Toronto and Montreal, and the Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall in Japan.
Alexandre’s recital at Wigmore Hall was described by International Piano Magazine as “magnificently organic, with many personal and relevant insights, offering a thoughtful balance between rhetoric and fantasy… technically dazzling.” His recital of the Études by Frédéric Chopin at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory was recorded live and released under the Classical Music Archives label in Russia.
Alexandre has won first prizes at more than 20 international competitions, including those in Naumburg, Cleveland, Montreal, New Orleans, Shanghai, Iturbi in Valencia, Maria Canals in Barcelona, and the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv. At the age of 19, he received the Special Prize for Artistic Potential for his performance of Brahms’s Intermezzi, Op. 117. A critic from the Dallas Morning News described it as “more beautiful, more moving than I have ever heard it… sad, tender, and noble, playing of breathtaking intimacy and elegance.”
Other highlights of his career include performing the complete works of Rachmaninov in a series of six recitals with the Carnegie Concert Series in Nyack and receiving the “Artist of the Season” award from Chamber Music International in Dallas.
His album of Cuban piano music released by Steinway & Sons was recognized by WRTI as one of the Top 10 Classical Music Recordings of 2017. It also won the Cubadisco Award for Best Classical Music Recording in Cuba. Alexandre recently released a Steinway & Sons recording, “Ravel & Stravinsky,” with violinist Chloé Kiffer. The album includes his solo piano transcription of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, which was premiered at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and at 92Y in New York.
Alexandre has served as a jury member for the Geneva International Music Competition, the Bartók Competition in Budapest, the Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona, the Panama International Piano Competition, the New Orleans International Piano Competition, and the Vladimir Krainev International Piano Competition in Moscow.
Alexandre is Co-Director of the Piano Department at the Manhattan School of Music. His students have won first prizes at numerous competitions across North and South America, Europe, and Asia. He is a sought-after teacher and guest artist at music festivals around the world, including the Beijing International Piano Festival, the Paris International Music Academy, the MusicAlp Festival in France, Music Fest Perugia, Forum Musicae in Madrid, and the Havana International Piano Festival.