Alexey Zuev

• Alexey Zuev (piano) 

Born in St. Petersburg in 1982, Alexey Zuev gave his first public performance at the State Cappella of St. Petersburg at the age of eight, after beginning his piano studies at the city’s leading music schools. He has won numerous prestigious international awards, including First Prize at the St. Petersburg International Prokofiev Competition (1999), the Educational Award at the London International Piano Competition (2002), a prize at the Sviatoslav Richter Competition (2008), and Second Prize at the Géza Anda Piano Competition (2009). He graduated from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg in 2009, where he studied with Alexei Lubimov. Career highlights include debuts with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as performances with the Netherlands Radio Symphony, the Orchestra of the 18th Century, and the Musikkollegium Winterthur. He gave the Russian premiere of John Adams’s Century Rolls with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Equally at ease on historical and modern pianos, Zuev combines an active performing career with teaching at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. In 2022, he released a five-CD boxed set on Fuga Libera dedicated to piano arrangements and transcriptions of works by Igor Stravinsky.