Aleksandr Kliuchko - Sydney International Piano Competition

Background

Nationality Russia

Place of Birth Russia

Date of Birth August 15, 2000

Prizes

2018 First Prize: Concours Ile-de-France International Piano Competition (Maisons-Laffitte, France)

2019 Second Prize: Maria Canals International Piano Competition (Barcelona, Spain)

2018 Third Prize: Paloma O’Shea Santander Piano Competition (Santander, Spain)

2017 First Prize (equal) and Grand Prix: Astana Piano Passion International Festival of Classical Music and the Competition for Young Pianists (Astana, Kazakhstan)

Aleksandr Kliuchko started playing piano at the age of six, giving his first recital at the age of seven. He studied with Sergey Arsibashev in the F. Chopin Moscow State College of Musical Performance. He is currently studying at the École Normale de Musique de Paris ‘Alfred Cortot’, studying under Réna Shereshevskaya.

Aleksandr has performed in Russia with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestra and Governor’s Orchestra of the Irkutsk Regional Philharmonic. He has also performed with the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the Catalan Youth Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic and the Astana Opera Symphony Orchestra in Kazakhstan. Aleksandr has performed with renown conductors including Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez and participated in masterclasses with eminent pianists including Réna Shereshevskaya, Dmitry Bashkirov and Paolo Giacometti.

Aleksandr has appeared in international festivals including Stars on the Baikal Festival (Southern Siberia), Gradus International Piano Festival (Denmark) and the Musical Olympus International Festival (St Petersburg, Russia).

Gallery

Upcoming Competition Repertoire

Preliminaries

Preliminary Round 1: 20-Minute Recital

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.17 in D minor Op.31 No.2 ‘The Tempest’ 

I. Largo – Allegro

II. Adagio

III. Allegretto

Franz Liszt: Rhapsodie espagnole S.254

Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.3 in A minor Op.28

Encore:

Carl Vine: from Five Bagatelles

II. Leggiero e legato

Semi-Finals

Semifinal Round

Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suite No.2 in A minor BWV 807

I. Prélude
II. Allemande
III. Courante
IV. Sarabande
V. Les agréments de la même Sarabande
VI. Bourrée I alternativement
VII. Bourrée II
VIII. Gigue

Frédéric Chopin: Scherzo in B minor No.1 Op.20

Igor Stravinsky: Three Movements from ‘Petrushka’ 

I. Russian Dance
II. Petrushka’s Cell
III. The Shrovetide Fair

Finals

Final Round

Franz Liszt: from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses S.173 

VII. Funerailles

Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in B major Op.62 No.1

Franz Liszt:: from Années de Pèlerinage, Book II S.161

VII. Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata 

Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No.5 in F# major Op.53

Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition 

[Promenade I] Allegro giusto, nel modo russico; senza allegrezza, ma poco sostenuto
I. The Gnome

[Promenade II]. Moderato commodo assai e con delicatezza

II. The Old Castle

[Promenade III]. Moderato non tanto, pesamente

III. Tuileries

IV. Oxen

[Promenade IV]. Tranquillo

V. The Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks in their Shells

VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle

[Promenade V] Allegro giusto, nel modo russico; poco sostenuto

VII. The Market at Limoges (The Great News)

VIII. Catacombs – With the Dead in a Dead Language

IX. The Hut on Hens’ Legs

X. The Great Gate of Kiev

Encores:

Sergei Rachmaninoff: from Études-tableaux Op.33

II. Allegro

Carl Vine: from Five Bagatelles

V. Threnody