{"id":8141,"date":"2020-07-21T18:34:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T16:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/alexandre-kantorow-piano\/"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:20:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T10:20:37","slug":"alexandre-kantorow-piano","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/alexandre-kantorow-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandre KANTOROW, piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1538679572306{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8735 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Alexandre-Kantorow-c-Sasha-Gusov_0886-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Alexandre-Kantorow-c-Sasha-Gusov_0886-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/opmc.mc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Alexandre-Kantorow-c-Sasha-Gusov_0886-1-500x328.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>At 22 years old, Alexandre Kantorow is the first French pianist to win the gold medal at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition as well as the Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whether it\u2019s a concert or a disc, the critics are giving Alexandre Kantorow rave reviews. Hailed by the press as the \u201cyoung tsar\u201d of the French piano, he started performing very early. At 16, he was invited to play for \u201cLa Folle Journ\u00e9e\u201d in Nantes and Warsaw with the Sinfonia Varsovia and since then he has played with many orchestras. He performs regularly with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alexandre has played at major concert halls such as the Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Philharmonie de Paris, Bozar in Brussels and also at the most prestigious festivals including la Roque d\u2019Anth\u00e9ron, Piano aux Jacobins, Heidelberg etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His BIS recording \u2018\u00c0 la russe\u2019 (BIS-2150) has won many awards and distinctions including Choc de l\u2019Ann\u00e9e (Classica), Diapason d\u00e9couverte (Diapason), Supersonic (Pizzicato) and CD des Doppelmonats (PianoNews). For BIS he has also recorded piano concertos by Liszt (BIS-2100) and Saint-Sa\u00ebns (BIS-2300), and a recital including rhapsodies by Brahms, Bart\u00f3k and Liszt (in preparation). His last recording of Saint-Sa\u00ebns has received Diapason d\u2019Or &amp; Choc Classica of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2019, he was named \u201cMusical Revelation of the Year\u201d by the Professional Critics Association.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2020, he has been awarded two \u201cVictoires de la Musique Classique\u201d: recording of the year (Saint Sa\u00ebns concerto n\u00b03, 4 &amp; 5) and instrumental soloist of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alexandre has studied with Pierre-Alain Volondat, Igor Lazko, Franck Braley and Rena Shereshevskaya.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alexandre is a laureate of the Safran foundation and Banque Populaire.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"ova_heading_v3 \"><span class=\"one\"><\/span><span class=\"two\"><\/span><span class=\"three\"><\/span><span class=\"four\"><\/span><span class=\"five\"><\/span><span class=\"six\"><\/span><h3 class=\"title\">In the Press<\/h3><\/div>[vc_empty_space]<div class=\"event_testimonial \" data-loop=\"false\" data-auto_slider=\"false\" data-duration=\"3000\" data-pagination=\"false\" data-count=\"1\"><div class=\"item \"><div class=\"desc\">\u00ab Alexandre is Liszt reincarnated. I\u2019ve never heard anyone play these pieces, let alone play the piano the way he does \u00bb<\/div><div class=\"author\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"Jerry Dubins Fanfare Magazine\"><div class=\"info\"><div class=\"name\">Jerry Dubins Fanfare Magazine<\/div><div class=\"job\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1538679572306{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text] At 22 years old, Alexandre Kantorow is the first French pianist to win the gold medal at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition as well as the Grand Prix. &nbsp; Whether it\u2019s a concert or a disc, the critics are giving Alexandre Kantorow rave reviews. Hailed by the press as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8735,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8141","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8738,"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8141\/revisions\/8738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}