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Orlovetsky Alexei
Outstanding pianist, pedagogue, composer and conductor, prize-winner of international piano competitions; since 1990 annually participating in various forms of activities of F. Liszt Society in Poland, Honorary Member of TiFL.
Alexei Orlovetsky was born in 1959 in St. Petersburg (formerly - Leningrad). He started learning to play the piano at the age of 4. In 1967, he became a student of the Special Music School at the Petersburg Conservatory, in the piano class of Zoja Borisowna Chochłowa, who played a very important role in the musical and pianistic education of Alexei Orlovetsky. He graduated from this school in 1977 and joined the National M. Rimski-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg. He studied piano under the world-famous pianist Grigorij Sokolov. He also studied composition with prof. J. Falika and opera and symphonic conducting with prof. I. A. Mussin. After graduating from the Piano Department (1983), he completed a three-year internship under G. Sokolov, and then until 1997 he was a lecturer at his home university and taught piano at the Special Music School at the Conservatory.
In 1989 he won the second prize at the International Liszt Competition in Utrecht.
In 1990 he won the first prize at the International Competition of José Iturbi in Valencia.
He conducts lively artistic activity (pianistic and conducting). His extensive repertoire includes pieces from the Baroque period to the contemporary times, but his most favourite are works of Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Beethoven. In addition to many concerts in various Russian cities, he has performed in France, Spain, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Germany, Switzerland and many times in Poland.
In 1991, he recorded in the Netherlands on the Erard piano from Liszt era two compact discs with the composer's works. In 2006, in St. Petersburg was released an album with recordings of works of J. S. Bach, L. v. Beethoven, F. Chopin, E. Grieg, S. Rachmaninoff and M. Ravel made on the reconstructed Erard's piano from the middle of 19th century. The album was published by the IMLab publishing house in St. Petersburg with the participation of the St. Petersburg Concert Society. He also recorded for radio and CD S. Rachmaninoff's Concertos No. 1 and No. 3. In Poland, F. Liszt Society released two CDs with recordings from A. Orlovetsky's recitals in Wrocław in 1997-2018, covering works by I.S. Bach, Bach-Silotti, L. v. Beethoven, P. Tchaikovsky, E. Grieg, J. Haydn, Mahler-Orłowiecki, F. Mompou, IJ Paderewski, S. Rachmaninoff, F. Schubert, A. Orlovetsky, Verdi-Liszt .
His compositional output includes over 50 compositions - piano, chamber and symphonic pieces (including Variations for Piano and Orchestra and "Bachanalie" for violin, cello and string orchestra). However, most of his works are intended for performing by pianists and by various chamber ensembles.
In the years 2009 - 2013 he was the artistic director and main conductor of the symphony orchestra of the St. Petersburg Concert Society.
For 30 years, Alexei Orlovetsky has been associated with the activity of F. Liszt Society (TiFL) with its headquarters in Wrocław, Poland. At the TiFL's invitation, he was a soloist of the annual concert cycles "Liszt Evenings" (over 100 recitals and 4 symphonic concerts), a juror of four national and four international piano competitions of F. Liszt, a professor of 25 international piano master courses (with over 700 participants from 31 countries) and a professor of about 20 courses for teachers and students of about 70 Polish music schools. In recognition of special merits for Polish pianistic didactics, the F. Liszt Society gave him the honor of an Honorary Member.
Updated - July 2019
Photos from 21th International Master Course for Pianists in Wroclaw (2014), Part 1
Photos from 21th International Master Course for Pianists in Wroclaw (2014), Part 2