Alexandre Pirojenko was born in 1979 in Leningrad. In 2003 the pianist graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory, and in 2005 he completed a postgraduate study there (under the guidance of Alexander Sandler). Also undertook a postgraduate study at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover (Germany; class of Arie Vardi).
Laureate of the European Piano Competition Bremen (1999; 2nd prize and special prize), the Newport International Competition for Young Pianists (Wales, 2000; 1st prize), the International Competition for Young Pianists in memory of Vladimir Horowitz (Kyiv, 2001; 2nd prize, Silver Medal and special prize), the Ibiza International Piano Competition (Spain, 2003; 1st prize), the Young Concert Artists International Auditions (New York, 2004; 1st prize), the New Orleans International Piano Competition (2005; 2nd prize and Silver Medal), the International Piano Competition in memory of Emil Gilels (Odessa, 2006; 2nd prize and Silver Medal), the Ettore Pozzoli International Piano Competition (Seregno, Italy, 2007; 1st prize) and the Valsesia Musica International Competition (Varallo Sesia, Italy, 2008; 2nd prize) among others.
Regularly plays at the Grand and Small halls of the St Petersburg Philharmonia and at other venues in the Northern Capital of Russia; in 2009 – at the Stars of the White Nights festival – he performed Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre. Has appeared in solo programmes and as a soloist with many orchestras (including the Mariinsky Orchestra and the Mariinsky Youth Orchestra conducted by Tugan Sokhiev) in Russia, Europe and the USA. He played at the Small and Rachmaninoff halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Salle Cortot and the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, the Kölner Philharmonie, New York’s Lincoln Center and Kaufmann Concert Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Geneva’s Palais des Nations and Salzburg’s Mozarteum among others.
Alexandre Pirojenko is the first performer of a number of works by Boris Tishchenko, Yevgeny Rushansky, Peter Chernobrivets and Tatyana Voronina. In 2008 he gave the world premiere of Felix Mendelssohn and Ignaz Moscheles’ collaborative work Duo concertant pour deux pianos avec accompagnement d’orchestre ad libitum en Variations brillantes sur la Marche Bohémienne, tirée du mélodrame Preciosa de C.M. de Weber – Alexander’s partners were pianist Pavel Raikerus and conductor Sergei Stadler.
From 2006 to 2013 the artist taught at the Department of Special Piano at the St Petersburg Conservatory. Since 2013 he has been teaching at the Institute of Music, Theatre and Choreography at St Petersburg’s Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (currently he is an associate professor at the Department of Musical and Instrumental Training). Has given masterclasses in the USA, Ukraine, Italy and the Faroe Islands.
In 2007 Alexandre Pirojenko’s solo disc with works by Chopin, Liszt, Prokofiev, Scriabin and Ettore Pozzoli was released in Italy.
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