Alexander Kobrin

Alexander Kobrin Jewgenjewitsch (Russian Александр Евгеньевич Кобрин; born March 20, 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union ) is a Russian pianist and university professor.

Life

Kobrin began at the age of five with his musical studies at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow. There his teacher was the pianist Tatiana Zelikman. At age 18, he enrolled at the Moscow Conservatory and was a student of Lev Nikolayevich Naumov. At the Moscow Conservatory graduate Kobrin.

As a teenager, won various competitions Kobrin, as a 18 -year-old the Scottish International Piano Competition. In 1999 he received the first prize at the International Piano Competition Ferruccio Busoni after several years of no first prize was awarded. In 2000, he finished in third place at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, after the winners Li Yundi. In the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in the same year he finished second, a first place was not awarded. In 2005 he was awarded the gold medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Kobrin was until 2009 a teacher at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow, since 2011 he teaches at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University in Columbus (Georgia ).

Musical interaction

Kobrin has given concerts in Europe, America and Asia, among other things, with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the English Chamber Orchestra and 2011 with the Polish Beethoven Academy Orchestra under Michał Klauza. His great interest is the music of the classical period and the Romantic period.

Discography

• 2005: Alexander Kobrin, Gold Medalist. 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Harmonia Mundi France, Arles, France