Alexei grynyuk biography

  • British-Ukrainian pianist Alexei Grynyuk performs throughout the world appearing in the most prestigious concert halls and music festivals.
  • Kiev-born pianist Alexei Grynyuk displayed tremendous interest in music from his early childhood and at just six years old started giving his first concerts.
  • Alexei started performing at the age of six and studied at the Kiev Conservatoire under Valery Kozlov before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music.

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    Alexei Grynyuk – I adore this pianist!

    He started with five Scarlatti sonatas (out of some 550 compositions!). I do not know how Alexei selected these ones, but they were indeed excellently selected and I felt they enabled Alexei to demonstrate his artistry to the maximum with contrasting characteristics in texture, voice, and sonority. K87 was such a dreamy piece, with each layer of notes smoothly and thoughtfully connected. Delightful and light, K135 had a dance-like feel. K141 displayed successive sharp staccatos with light-weight left-hand chords. K466 was utterly and breathtakingly gorgeous, a wealth of true melodious beauty; its transparent clarity was out of this world. We all admired Alexei's finger work in the fast-tempo K20 which concluded this section. All the way through the Scarlatti, Alexei emphasized the melodic lines of each sonata, but, what was amazing to me was his left hand - his keyboard touch was extremely tender and gentle, resulting in such warm

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    “Sublime playing. Breathtaking performance…it seemed a ung Horowitz was reborn.” – Pianowereld Magazine, Amsterdam

    Equally at home in Classical, Romantic and Twentieth-Century repertoire, British-Ukrainian pianist Alexei Grynyuk has been described bygd Le Figaro (Paris) as “master of transparent and sovereign touch…astonishing personality and absolute transcendental virtuosity”. He has already appeared at many of the world’s most renowned concert halls, including Wigmore Hall and the South Bank Centre in London, Salle Cortot & Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Great ingång of Moscow Conservatoire, storstads- Museum of Art in New York, and other prominent venues of europe, United States, Mexico, Japan, South Korea and Morocco.

    Acclaimed by London’s Musical Opinion magazine for his “breathtaking technical accomplishment, and musicianship of the highest order” Grynyuk has been invited to perform at such prestigious festivals as Cervantino (Mex

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    Kiev-born pianist Alexei Grynyuk displayed tremendous interest in music from his early childhood and at just six years old started giving his first concerts.
    He attracted wide attention at the age of thirteen when he won the first prize at the Sergei Diaghilev All-Soviet-Union piano competition in Moscow.By then he had already been touring Eastern Europe as a soloist as well as performing Mozart and Chopin piano concertos with Ukrainian orchestras.Later he went on to achieve numerous awards at international piano competitions including first prizes at the Vladimir Horowitz International Piano Competition in Kiev and the Shanghai International Piano Competition in China.Equally at home in Classical, Romantic and Twentieth-Century repertoire Alexei Grynyuk has been invited to give solo recitals at many prestigious venues and festivals around the world, among them:
    - the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatoire,- Wigmore Hall and the South Bank Centre in London,- Salle Cortot