Alexander Gadjiev is the winner of the Sydney International Piano Competition
Alexander Gadjiev was awarded first prize at the Sydney International Piano Competition 2021. The Italian-Slovenian pianist is completing his Konzertexamen studies with Prof. Eldar Nebolsin at Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin. In addition to the Ernest Hutcheson First Prize, the 26-year-old received six other prizes for the best interpretations in various categories of the online competition.
The pianist Alexander Gadjiev is a multiple winner of first prizes in international competitions, including the first prize and the audience award at the International Hamamatsu Piano Competition 2015 and the first prize at the 2018 Monte-Carlo World Piano Masters. In 2019 he was selected by BBC Radio 3 for the New Generation Artists (NGA) scheme. All New Generation Artists concerts are recorded and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Gadjiev regularly accepts invitations from Europe, Asia, the USA and Israel for concerts at renowned festivals and in important concert halls. He was a guest at the Verbier Festival, MiTo Festival in Turin, Rubinstein Piano Festival in Lodz, ClaviCologne International Piano Festival in Düsseldorf, Piano Festival Rafael Orozco in Cordoba, Ljubljana Festival, Bologna Festival, Settimane Musicali for the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Festival Animato de Paris, Ravenna Musica and the Chamber Music Salzburg Festival.
As a soloist, Alexander Gadjiev has since worked with orchestras such as Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestra Sinfonica del Teatro della Fenice, Orchester I Virtuosi Italiani, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Pomeranian Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra worked together.
He played under the direction of well-known conductors such as Yuri Temirkanov, Kazuki Yamada, Marek Pijarowski, Ken Takaseki, Anton Nanut, Tatsuya Shimono, Tomomi Nishimoto, Christopher Franklin, Marco Guidarini, Olivier Ochanin, En Shao, Ulrich Windfuhr, Giedre Šlekyte, Gianluca Martinenghi, and Tiziano Severini.