Anya Alexeyev concert pianist Born into a musical family in Moscow in 1972, Anya Alexeyev began her studies at the Gnessin Music School at the age of five, and in 1989 entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory to become a student of Prof. Dmitri Bashkirov. The following year she was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London where she studied with Irina Zaritskaya on both an undergraduate and postgraduate basis. While still a student, Anya Alexeyev won many prizes including the Elizabeth The Queen Mother's Award for the most outstanding contribution to the Royal College of Music, the First Prize at the Newport International Piano Competition (1991), The Capital Radio/Anna Instone Memorial Prize (1994), and was named a winner of a Young Concert Artists Trust (1992). Her performance career to date has been concentrated in Great Britain. She is a regular performer at London's Wigmore Hall and has appeared at all of the other major London performance halls including The Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Royal Opera House, and the Barbican. In other parts of the Kingdom she has performed at major halls such as the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Birmingham Symphony Hall, and the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. She has also appeared at festivals in Bath, Cheltenham, Brighton, Henley, Chester, Harrogate, and Malvern. She has performed with the BBC Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony, on tour with the Bournemouth Symphony and Sinfonietta, the London Mozart Players, The Philharmonia of London, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and the English Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Alexeyev is a frequent performer with the Emperor Quartet of London. | |
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