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Place of Birth: Roshchino, Leningrad Oblast, Russia
About Alexander Lubyantsev
- Alexander Mikhailovich Lubyantsev (Russian: ????????? ?????????? ????????, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lubiantsev, also transliterated Lubiantcev, born 27 December 1986) is a Russian pianist and composer.
- He is a laureate of the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition and the 2007 International Tchaikovsky Competition, at which he received the bronze medal, no gold awarded, and has also been a prizewinner in over ten other piano competitions.
- His performance at the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition and the ensuing events are also quite significant. At this competition, a notable outcry and vivid protests by audience members and music critics after Lubyantsev's exit led the critics to institute their own additional prize with the support of the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation for Cultural Initiatives.
- Lubyantsev won this new award with the most votes.
- This Special Prize of the Moscow Music Critics' Association has continued to be awarded in subsequent editions.
- The events surrounding Lubyantsev received attention in the national and international press, where he was referred to as “one of the audience’s favorites” and “the cause of the most controversy.” One journalist drew a parallel with Ivo Pogorelich’s famed appearance in the 1980 Chopin Competition.Lubyantsev has been invited to perform in various countries, including France, Germany, Italy, USA, Japan, China, South Korea, and South Africa.
- He has performed in venues such as Suntory and Nikkei Halls in Japan, the Fazioli Concert Hall, Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie, the Tchaikovsky Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic, and the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theater, and with conductors such as Gianandrea Noseda, Christoph Poppen, János Fürst, Maxim Fedotov, Vladimir Spivakov, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Mikhail Tatarnikov, and Dima Slobodeniouk.
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