Renowned pianist Alexander Romanovsky will give a solo concert in Yerevan on October 31 within the framework of the 5th Khachaturian International Festival. As the festival press service reported in a release, the concert will take place at Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall and will feature works of Robert Schumann, Alexei Shore, Modest Mussorgsky.
To note, Romanovsky is a frequent guest to Armenia and as once noted: “I have found many things in Armenia which is important for me in music. I feel Armenia is attracting me.”
Born in Ukraine in 1984, at the age of thirteen Alexander moved to Italy where he studied at the Imola Piano Academy with Leonid Margarius, considered by Alexander to be the most influential figure in his musical formation, and later obtained the Artist Diploma from the Royal College of Music in London, studying with Dmitry Alexeev. At the age of seventeen, he won First Prize at the prestigious Busoni Competition in Italy.
Since 2007, he has released four critically acclaimed albums on Decca: Beethoven: Diabelli Variations, Brahms/Schumann, Rachmaninov: Etudes-Tableaux and Corelli Variations, and most recently Russian Faust. Alexander Romanovsky has held the post of Artistic Director of the Vladimir Krainev Moscow International Piano Competition since 2014.