• Honoured Artist of Russia
• Honoured Art Worker of Russia
Alexey Parshin was born in Moscow in 1957. He began to study music under Anna Artobolevskaya. In 1980 he graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (organ class of Leonid Roizman and piano class of Mikhail Voskresensky), and in 1984 he undertook an assistant traineeship there (under Leonid Roizman). In 1987 the musician trained at the Conservatoire de Rueil-Malmaison.
Since 1980 he has toured to France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, the Czech Republic, the USA, the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Gives recitals at the Grand and Small halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary in Moscow and concert halls and cathedrals in St Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Tver, Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, Barnaul, Omsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Kirov, Yaroslavl, Saratov, Nizhny Novgorod, Kislovodsk, Pyatigorsk, Bryansk and Krasnogorsk.
His repertoire includes music from five centuries, ranging from pieces from an anthology of Pierre Attaingnant (1530) to contemporary composers of the 20th century (Dmitry Shostakovich, Georgi Mushel, Edgar Arro, Alexander Shaverzashvili, Mikael Tariverdiev, Valeri Kikta and Karen Khachaturian). The organist focusses much of his attention the music of Bach and works by French and German baroque composers (Dieterich Buxtehude, Georg Böhm, Vincent Lübeck, Nicolaus Bruhns, Nicolas de Grigny, Louis Marchand, François Couperin, Jean-François Dandrieu and Michel Corrette).
Has been Artistic Director of the Festival of Young Organists at St Sophia’s Cathedral in Polotsk (1989–1991), the Christmas Festival of Organ Music in Moscow (1997), the Organ Constellation festival (1999) and the Northern Orpheus Festival of Organ and Chamber Music in Kirov (2001), the Christmas Organ Festival at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary in Moscow (2003).
For several years he directed the Musica poetica chamber ensemble.
Member of the Honorary Committee of the Association des Amis de l’Orgue of the Basilique Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Cordon in Valenciennes.
He was one of the founders of the International Valeri Kikta Organ Competition, the International Competition of Organ Duets Organo Duo, the Moscow Nicolaas Bidloo Young Performing Artists’ Festival and the All-Russian Organ Competition Sancta Caecilia.
Since 1984 Alexey Parshin has taught at the Moscow Conservatory, and since 2001 he has been a professor in the Department of Organ and Harpsichord Performance.
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