Alexander Bolotin was born in St Petersburg in 2000. He graduated from the Secondary Special Music School of the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Alexander Sandler). From 2018 to 2020 he continued his studies with the same teacher at the conservatory itself. Has participated in masterclasses held by Dmitri Bashkirov, Efrem Briskin, Alexander Braginsky, Pavel Nersessian, Miroslav Kultyshev, Alexander Kobrin, Anthony Newman, Matthew Cameron, Philippe Giusiano and Anna Malikova. Since 2021 the artist has been a student at the Manhattan School of Music (initially under the guidance of Arkady Aronov, and since 2023 he has been perfecting his skills in the class of Inessa Sinkevich). In 2015 Alexander Bolotin was awarded the Path to Scriabin scholarship, in 2017 – the A.P. Petrov Scholarship from the St Petersburg City Government, and in 2023 – the Arthur Balsam and Viola Markus scholarships.
Winner of the International Chopin Competition of Young Pianists (Narva, Estonia, 2023), the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Children and Youth (Szafarnia, Poland, 2016), the International Academy of Music in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana (Italy, 2016), the Moscow International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists (2016) and the Mary Smart Concerto Competition (New York, 2018), 2nd-prize winner of the All-Russian Competition Young Talents of Russia (Moscow, 2017). Recipient of the St Petersburg City Government’s Young Talents award for 2011.
Alexander Bolotin has performed at the Mariinsky Theatre, the St Petersburg Philharmonia, the Sverdlovsk (in Yekaterinburg) and Kaliningrad philharmonics, the Moscow Concert Hall Zaryadye and many other venues. He has toured to Poland, France, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Finland, Estonia, Slovakia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Israel, Japan and the USA. Has participated in the Mariinsky International Piano Festival, the festivals Summit (New York State) and KLAVER (“Piano”) (Tallinn), the David Oistrakh Festival (Sillamäe and other Estonian towns) and the Chopin Festival in Nohant (France) among others. Has performed with the Mariinsky Orchestra, the St Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Moscow’s Borodin Symphony Orchestra, the North Czech Philharmonic Teplice, the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra (Greece), the National Philharmonic Serghei Lunchevici’s Symphony Orchestra (Chișinău, Moldova) and other ensembles.
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