A stunningly virtuosic pianist, Alexander Gavrylyuk is internationally recognised for his electrifying and poetic performances. His BBC Proms performance of Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto was described as “revelatory” by The Times and “electrifying” by Limelight.
Future highlights include debuts with the San Diego Symphony and the Bergen Symphony and return visits to Chicago Symphony, Sydney Symphony, the Netherlands Philharmonic orchestra and the São Paulo Symphony. Alexander will also play recitals throughout Europe and North America.
He enjoys regular relationships with orchestras such as Rotterdam Philharmonic, Hallé, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony.
Alexander also appears in solo recital at prestigious venues through Europe, including Wigmore Hall, Muziekgebouw Frits
Philips Eindhoven, Perth Concert Hall, and throughout Australia.
Born in Ukraine in 1984 and holding Australian citizenship, Alexander began his piano studies at the age of seven and gave
his first concerto performance when he was nine years old. At the age of 13, Alexander moved to Sydney where he lived
until 2006. He won First Prize and Gold Medal at the Horowitz International Piano Competition (1999), First Prize at the
Hamamatsu International Piano Competition (2000), and Gold Medal at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters
Competition (2005).
He has since gone on to perform with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including: New York, Los Angeles, Czech, Warsaw, Moscow, Seoul, Israel and Rotterdam Philharmonics; NHK, Chicago, Cincinnati and City of Birmingham Symphony orchestras; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre
National de Lille and the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker; collaborating with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alexandre
Bloch, Herbert Blomstedt, Andrey Boreyko, Thomas Dausgaard, Valery Gergiev, Neeme Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Sebastian
Lang-Lessing, Kirill Karabits, Louis Langrée, Cornelius Meister, Vassily Petrenko, Rafael Payare, Alexander Shelley, Yuri
Simonov, Vladimir Spivakov, Markus Stenz, Sir Mark Elder, Thomas Søndergård, Gergely Madaras, Mario Venzago, Enrique
Mazzola and Osmo Vänska.
Gavrylyuk has appeared at many of the world’s foremost festivals, including the Hollywood Bowl, Bravo! Vail Colorado, Mostly Mozart, the Ruhr Festival, the Kissinger Sommer International Music Festival, the Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam. As a recitalist Alexander has performed at the Musikverein in Vienna, Tonhalle Zurich, Victoria Hall Geneva, Southbank Centre’s International Piano Series, Wigmore Hall, The Master Pianists Series in the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Suntory Hall, Tokyo Opera City hall, Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Cologne Philharmonie, Tokyo City Concert Hall,
San Francisco, Sydney Recital Hall and Melbourne Recital Centre. Alexander also performs regularly with his recital partner
Janine Jansen throughout Europe.
In 2009 he made an acclaimed recording of the complete Prokofiev Concertos with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony which was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House. In addition to the Prokofiev cycle, he has recorded recital discs of works by Rachmaninov, Schumann, Scriabin, Mussorgsky and Prokofiev. Reviewing his latest disc of works by Brahms and Liszt, Gramophone magazine raved “this album should be in every serious collector's library.”
Alexander is Artist in Residence at Chautauqua Institution where he leads the piano program as an artistic advisor. He supports a number of charities including Theme and Variations Young Pianist Trust which aims to provide support and encouragement to young, aspiring Australian pianists as well as Opportunity Cambodia, which has built a residential facility for Cambodian children.
Alexander Gavrylyuk is a Steinway Artist
