Alexander Gavrylyuk, pianist A stunningly virtuosic pianist, Alexander Gavrylyuk has received international critical acclaim for his electrifying and poetic performances. Gavrylyuk has appeared at many of the world’s foremost festivals, including the Hollywood Bowl, Bravo! Vail Colorado, Mostly Mozart, the Ruhr Festival, the Kissinger Sommer International Music Festival, the Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam, as well as the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Scottish Symphony, his debut performance making it onto the BBC Proms 2017 "Editor's Top 10 Picks" list. Highlights of the 2018-19 season include debuts with the Philharmonia, Chicago Symphony, Wiener Symphoniker, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Other highlights include return visits to the Hallé, Concertgebouworkest, Sydney Symphony and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Gavrylyuk will also tour Europe, Asia & North America in solo recital and appear in duo partnership with violinist Janine Jansen in Berlin, Stockholm, Munich, Zurich, London, Amsterdam and Vienna. Gavrylyuk is increasingly in demand by orchestras and conductors for his noble and compelling interpretations and has appeared with the New York, Los Angeles, Czech, Israel, Warsaw, Moscow and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras as well as the Royal Scottish National and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, NHK Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Hallé, Tokyo Symphony, Orchestre National de Lille, and the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker. He has collaborated with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Herbert Blomstedt, Andrey Boreyko, Thomas Dausgaard, Valery Gergiev, Neeme Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Kirill Karabits, Louis Langrée, Alexander Lazarev, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Vassily Petrenko, Rafael Payare, Yuri Simonov, Vladimir Spivakov, Markus Stenz and Osmo Vänska. Born in 1984, Gavrylyuk began his piano studies at the age of seven and gave his first concerto performance when he was nine years old. He went on to win First prize and Gold Medal at the 1999 Horowitz International Piano Competition, First Prize at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan in 2000. In 2005, he took both the coveted Gold Medal as well as the award for Best Performance of a Classical Concerto at the internationally renowned Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition. At the age of 13, Gavrylyuk moved to Sydney where he lived until 2006. He has performed with all the main Australian orchestras including Melbourne and Sydney Symphonies, returning each year for concerts and recitals. In 2009 he made an acclaimed recording of the complete Prokofiev Concerti with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony which was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House. In addition to the Prokofiev cycle, he has made several recordings including recital discs of works by Rachmaninov, Schumann, Scriabin, Mussorgsky and Prokofiev. Gavrylyuk is Artist in Residence at Chautauqua Institution where he leads the piano program as an artistic advisor. He supports a number of charities including Theme and Variations Young Pianist Trust which aims to provide support and encouragement to young, aspiring Australian pianists as well as Opportunity Cambodia, which has built a residential educational facility for Cambodian children. Gavrylyuk currently lives in the Netherlands with his wife Zorica and their two daughters Anna and Olivia. .