Award-Winning Pianist Alexander Kobrin Performs at Yamaha Artist Services, Inc.
New York, N.Y. Award-winning pianist and internationally acclaimed performer Alexander Kobrin presented an exciting recital and master class at Yamaha's midtown Manhattan piano salon. The recital took place on Tuesday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. and included Sonata in D major, K. 311 by Mozart, Variations in F minor by Haydn, Klavierstuecke, Op. 119 by Brahms and Kreisleriana by Schumann. The master class was conducted on Wednesday, March 14 from 12 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Born in Moscow in 1980, Alexander Kobrin completed his studies at the Gnessin Academy of Music under Tatiana Zelikman and at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Lev Naumov, where he received his master's degree.
First-prize winner of the 1999 Busoni Competition and a top prize-winner of both the 2000 Chopin and 2003 Hamamatsu Competitions, Kobrin has toured extensively throughout Europe, South America and Asia. At the age of twenty-five, Mr. Kobrin was awarded the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (2005). As a result of this triumph, he recently made his recital debut at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Kobrin's New York Philharmonic debut at Lincoln Center in July 2006 launched his 2006-2007 season. His performance schedule features debuts at the Boulder Music Festival in Colorado, La Roque d'Antheron (France), and the Tuscan Sun Festival in Italy, where he will collaborate with celebrated violinist Nikolai Znaider and baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
With recordings exclusively through the harmonia mundi label, Kobrin's CDs include performances of works by Brahms and Rachmaninoff. In addition, the young artist has started a recording project devoted to Chopin for the King label in Japan. Kobrin is also prominently featured in "In the Heart of Music," the film documentary about the Twelfth Cliburn Competition, which premiered on PBS stations across the United States in the fall of 2005. When Alexander Kobrin is not performing, he teaches at the Moscow State Gnessin Academy of Music.
For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622, telephone (714) 522-9011, or e-mail infostation@yamaha.com.
 Yamaha artist Alexander Kobrin |
First-prize winner of the 1999 Busoni Competition and a top prize-winner of both the 2000 Chopin and 2003 Hamamatsu Competitions, Kobrin has toured extensively throughout Europe, South America and Asia. At the age of twenty-five, Mr. Kobrin was awarded the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (2005). As a result of this triumph, he recently made his recital debut at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Kobrin's New York Philharmonic debut at Lincoln Center in July 2006 launched his 2006-2007 season. His performance schedule features debuts at the Boulder Music Festival in Colorado, La Roque d'Antheron (France), and the Tuscan Sun Festival in Italy, where he will collaborate with celebrated violinist Nikolai Znaider and baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
With recordings exclusively through the harmonia mundi label, Kobrin's CDs include performances of works by Brahms and Rachmaninoff. In addition, the young artist has started a recording project devoted to Chopin for the King label in Japan. Kobrin is also prominently featured in "In the Heart of Music," the film documentary about the Twelfth Cliburn Competition, which premiered on PBS stations across the United States in the fall of 2005. When Alexander Kobrin is not performing, he teaches at the Moscow State Gnessin Academy of Music.
For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622, telephone (714) 522-9011, or e-mail infostation@yamaha.com.