Alexander Gadjiev (Scandinavia) Piano

Alexander Gadjiev piano

In 2021 Alexander Gadjiev was awarded the Second Prize and the “Krystian Zimerman Prize for the best performance of a Sonata” at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw as well as the First Prize and Audience prize at the Sydney International Piano Competition. At the 2018 Monte-Carlo World Piano Masters Competition he received the Prix Prince Rainier III. In 2015 he gained the First Prize at Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan.

Over the last years Alexander Gadjiev has been invited to perform in Japan and at major piano festivals, including Verbier, MiTo Festival in Torino, Chopin in Duszniki, Ljubljana, Bologna, Aldeburgh, Settimane Musicali in Vicenza, and in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Herkulessaal Munich, Konzerthaus Berlin, Salle Cortot Paris, Teatro La Fenice, Bunka Kaikan and Kioi Hall in Tokyo, Moscow Conservatory among many others.

He lately performed with RAI National Symphony Orchestra and Fabio Luisi, Sinfonia Varsovia, Polish Radio Orchestra Warsaw, Wroclaw Philharmonic and Mariinsky Orchestra among others and gave recitals in Eindhoven, Limoges, Ferrara, Trieste and at festivals in La Roque d’Antheron, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Chopin and his Europe Warsaw, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as in many venues in Poland and Slovenia.

A BBC New Generation Artist from 2019-2021, Alexander Gadjiev collaborated with the BBC Orchestras in Great Britain and performed at prestigious British festivals and venues. He has recorded the Respighi Concerto with BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo for BBC label. CAvi label released an album with music by Prokoviev, Alexander Tcherepnin and Nicolai Tcherepnin.

Upcoming highlights include his debut with Hallé Orchestra, Orchestra della Toscana extended tours to Japan and Australia as well as a residency at Torino Unione Musicale.

Alexander Gadjiev began his piano studies at the age of five with his mother. Tutored by his father, a well-known Russian teacher, Alexander played for the first time with an orchestra at the age of nine, and held his first solo recital aged ten. He obtained his diploma at the age of seventeen, with the highest marks and honours. This allowed him to participate in the Premio Venezia – a competition reserved for the best young talents in Italy – and to win the 30th edition of the award.

Musical exposure and Central European culture: Alexander Gadjiev owes the first to his family, with both parents being piano teachers and musicians, and the second to Gorizia – his city of origin – a natural crossroads of peoples, cultures and languages. These factors have both had a determining influence on his natural ability to absorb, process and rework, to his own taste, different musical styles and languages.

Alexander Gadjiev is the winner of the Terence Judd-Hallé Award 2022.

Season 2022/23

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Alexander Gadjiev's new album: Gramophone Editor's Choice of October 2022

Alexander Gadjiev's new album with music by Prokoviev and Tcherepnin for CAvi is unanimously praised by the

international press crowned by the Gramophone Editor's Choice of October 2022.

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Alexander Gadjiev's new album: Gramophone Editor's Choice of October 2022

Alexander Gadjiev's new album with music by Prokoviev and Tcherepnin for CAvi is unanimously praised by the

international press crowned by the Gramophone Editor's Choice of October 2022.

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  • Alexander Gadjiev takes the audience by storm in Melbourne recital

    Alexander Gadjiev took the audience deep into the troubled soul and imagination of Robert Schumann. His Fantasie in C, Op. 17 was originally intended as a tribute to Beethoven, but when it was published in 1839, it was dedicated to Liszt. There are genuflections to each of these composers in Schumann’s three-movement work, and Gadjiev drew these out purposefully and persuasively. […] Gadjiev mined Schumann’s passion with great gusto and authority. In a palette ranging from poetic tenderness to tempestuous rhapsody, Gadjiev captured every nuance of this towering 30-minute masterpiece. With his powerful left hand, deft pedalling, thunderous climactic chords and bittersweet, honeyed melodies, he provided a masterclass in the realisation of Romantic piano music. 

    www.limelightmagazine.com.au; Vincent Plush, 13.10.2022

     

  • Album: Prokoviev & Tcherepnin

    Sources close to the 2021 Chopin Competition jury say that had it not been for some inspired risk-taking from Bruce Liu, Alexander Gadjiev would have been a worthy overall winner. That's easy to believe from this follow-up to Gadjiev's acclaimed debut album of performances from the Sydney Competition last year (Decca, 12/2021). Even knowing what's in store from Prokofiev's Sarcasms doesn't entirely prepare you for the sheer venom Gadjiev unleashes at the opening, nor for the intelligence with which he moderates that attack thereafter. The set of five pieces is not just the epitome of Prokofiev's grotesque and motoric manners; it is also underpinned by eeriness and fantasy, as Gadjiev's own interview-note puts it and as his playing beautifully demonstrates.
    Gramophone, David Fanning, 10/2022

    In 2021, Alexander Gadjiev made a name for himself when he received Second prize and the "Krystian Zimerman" prize for the best performance of a Chopin sonata at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Now he is backing up this award with an album that identifies him as one of the most interesting young pianists.[…] The work of AlexanderTcherepnin is highly original music, amalgamating influences from Debussy, Scriabin and Prokofiev - which is all the more impressive when it is presented with such a stupendous sense of sound and structural clarity played like here.

    www.concerti.de, Frank Armbruster, 07.09.2022

    Alexander Gadjiev, a Slovene-Italian who came second in the 2021 Chopin Competition in Warsaw, is a pianist who makes you think. Placing Prokofiev between the Tcherepnins, father and son, as Alexander Gadjiev does in this riveting and refreshing recital, is illuminating in more ways than can be imagined in brief review.

    The critic, Norman Lebrecht, 21.08.2022

    [...] Alexander Gadjiev takes an unexpected, unusual path from the start. Unlike the vast majority of pianists, he does not rumble, but, with all the striking accentuation in detail, he keeps his nerve and leads a civilized conversation in which there is more musical talk than one usually hears.

    In the Visions fugitives Gadjiev also pursues the historical sound ideal, as was the rule at the time of Prokofiev due to the technical properties of the concert grand piano of the time. A lighter touch, a refined sound language that is all the more spatially vivid.

    Süddeutsche Zeitung, Helmut Mauró, 04.08.2022

    Alexander Gadjiev plays a programme of works by Nikolai Tcherepnin enriched with a selection from Prokoviev’s Visions fugitives and the Five Sarcasms. The young pianist shifts stylistically from one miniature to another, always accurately capturing the characters with their colors and moods. At the same time, his playing is of captivating clarity and always eloquent in the virtuoso as well as in the sensitive.

    www.pizzicato.lu, 22.05.2022*****

  • Chopin Competition Warsaw 2021:

    Alexander Gadjiev’s improvisatory instincts and formidable
    analytic powers enliven everything he touches, abetted by
    a technique that knows no difficulties plus a keen ear for
    nuance and tone colour.

    Jed Distler, Gramophone, October 2021

  • Debut: Herkulessaal Munich

    Alexander Gadjiev seems more mature than his age of 24 years. He begins
    his concert after long moments of concentration. His programme is also
    mature, because the sequence of Alban Berg, Wagner / Liszt, Franck,
    Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev is a succession without a tonal lightweight.
    The main characteristics of Gadjiev's interpretations are getting evident
    from the beginning of the Berg Sonata. There are definitely passages
    here in which the piano may bloom exuberantly - and Gadjiev does not
    leave this opportunity untapped.
    Above all, however, he illuminates the thoughtful, the quiet moments.
    That sounds wonderful and creates great transparency.

    Süddeutsche Zeitung, Andreas Pernpeintner, 06.06.2018

Programme

Programmes 2023/24/25
Programme 1Oct 2023-March 2024

Chopin: 24 Préludes op. 28
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Programme 2April 2024-March 2025

Beethoven: Eroica Variations E flat Major op. 35
Skrjabin: Piano Sonata No. 3 F sharp Minor
Skrjabin: 2 Poèmes op. 32
Skrjabin: Sonata No. 9 op. 69 "Black Mass"
Beethoven: Sonate Nro. 31 A flat Major op. 110

All Chopin Programme

Selection of Mazurkas
Polonaise Fantaisie A sharp major op. 61
Scherzo No. 3 C sharp minor op. 39
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24 Préludes op. 28

Diskografie

Sergej Prokoviev, Alexander Tcherepnin & Nicolai Tcherepnin

Prokoviev: Five Sarcasms op. 17, Visions fugitives op. 22
Tcherepnin: Eight pieces for piano op. 88,
Twelve preludes op. 85 (excerpts),
Four preludes nostaligiques for piano op. 23

CAvi (2022)

Repertoire

with Orchestra

Mozart : Concerto KV 466, 595, 482,
Double Concerto KV 365

Beethoven : Concerto No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
op.61, op. 61a

Grieg: Concerto op. 16

Shostakovich: Concerto No. 1 op. 35

Tchaikovsky: Concerto No.1 op. 23

Prokofiev: Concerto No. 1, 3

Brahms: Concerto No. 1

Rachmaninov: Concerto No. 2, 3

Barber: Concerto op. 38

Chopin: Concerto No. 1, 2

Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise Brillante

Bartók: Concerto No. 3

Liszt: Totentanz

Rheinberger: Concerto op. 94

Scriabin: Concerto op. 20

Panufnik: Concerto

Kenji Sakai: Qube Concerto

Respighi: Concerto A minor