Alexey Lebedev

The charismatic piano virtuoso Alexey Lebedev has fascinated audiences and critics alike with his expressive playing at numerous recitals, orchestral concerts, and as a chamber musician in Europe, Asia, North America, and Russia.

Lebedev is one of the most compelling musical interpreters of his generation, having won numerous awards and top prizes at World Federation (WFIMC) international piano competitions, including the legendary Feruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano, the Maria Canals International Music Competition in Barcelona, the Viotti Music Competition in Vercelli, and the Jose Iturbi Competition in Valencia.

He has gained valuable musical insight from such world-famous pianists and teachers as Alfred Brendel, Dmitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, Xu Zhong, William Grand Nabore, Joaquin Soriano, John O’Conor, and Tamas Ungar.

Alexey Lebedev was born into a musical family in St. Petersburg in 1980—his father was a conductor. At the age of 14 Lebedev made his orchestral debut playing Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, Op. 18, with the Algirdas Paulavicius Symphony Orchestra in St. Petersburg. Since 1998, he has won 15 first prizes at competitions in Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands and Bulgaria.

Lebedev studied with Tatiana Kravchenko and Tatiana Zagorovskaya at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, graduating summa cum laude. He also studied at the Universityof Music, Drama and Media Hannover with Mi-Kyung Kim, Matti Raekallio and Einar Steen-Nökleberg.

He has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras including the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, the Haydn Orchestra, the Euro-Asian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Changwon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orquestra de Valencia, L’Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès (OSV), the String Academy Bolzano, the Carlo Coccia Symphony Orchestra and the St. Petersburg State Conservatory Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with renowned conductors such as Arthur Fagen, Salvador Brotons, Daejin Kim, NanSae Gum, Tomas Brauner, Alessandro Ferrari, Max Bragado, Patrick Lange and Algirdas Paulavicius.

From 2009 to 2012 Alexey Lebedev was a lecturer in the Piano Department of the University of Music and Drama in Hanover, Germany. Since 2012 he has been Professor of Piano at Kyungsung University in Busan, South Korea.

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