Anya
Alexeyev
Anya Alexeyev, an accomplished concert pianist,
has performed extensively across Europe, in countries such as Germany,
France, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, and Sweden, as well as in
the USA, Canada, Argentina, Malaysia and South Africa. She is an active
participant in many chamber music festivals in Europe and in USA, regularly
performs live for BBC radio, and has been broadcast by a number of prominent
radio stations across the world. In 1995, she premiered Sir Paul McCartney's
first solo piano piece, A Leaf, at a charity concert organized to aid
The Royal College Of Music. The concert was held in the presence of the
Prince of Wales at St. James's Palace, London, and the piece was later
released through EMI Classics.
Anya received her education at the Moscow Tchaikovsky
Conservatory, where she studied with Dmitri Bashkirov. She then went on
to complete a Performer’s Diploma at the Royal College of Music in
London, England in 1993 and earned her an Associate Certificate from the
same institution a year later. A winner of many awards, Alexeyev has spent
the past 12 years performing internationally, playing solo recitals, concertos,
chamber music, and contemporary music. She has performed with some of
the world’s most prestigious orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic,
Moscow State Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber, The Philharmonia,
Royal Scottish National, Deutschland Radio, City of Birmingham Symphony,
Bournemouth Symphony and Sinfonietta, St. Pertersburg Philharmonic, London
Mozart Players, BBC National Orchetra of Wales, English Chamber, Malaysian
Philharmonic, Belgian National Symphony, and Quebec Symphony, collaborating
with such conductors as Temirkanov, Simonov, Oramo, Bakels, Judd.
Anya Alexeyev is currently a member of faculty
at the Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, and her future plans include
performances with the Brodsky Quartet in UK, concertos with Kitchener-Waterloo
Symphony Orchestra, a tour of Mexico, and the organization of and participation
in the Alfred Schnittke series in Ontario, Canada.
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