Welcome to the webpage of Alexander Karpeyev!
Alexander Karpeyev began to play piano at the age of 7 studying at the Children’s Music School in Saratov, Russia and afterwards at the Musical-Aesthetic Lyceum in Engels. In the year 2000 he entered the Moscow State Tchaikowsky Conservatory where he studied with Professor Alexander Mndoyants, Professor Emmanuel Monaszon and Professor Vera Gornostayeva.
In September 2005 Alexander won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he currently holds the Guildhall Artists Fellowship (class of Professor Joan Havill).
Alexander is also supported by scholarships from the Myra Hess Foundation, Craxton Memorial Trust, Martin Musical Scholarship Trust and from the Hattori Foundation.
Alexander has perfomed in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Switzerland and Japan. He has been a major prizewinner in many international competitions including the 1998 Ibla Grand Prize in Ragusa, Italy; the 2001 International Competition for Young Musicians in Enschede, Netherlands; the 2004 Competition «Arthur Rubinstein in memoriam» in Bydgoszcz, Poland; the 2004 Adilia Alieva International Piano Competition in Gaillard, France; the 2006 Tunbridge Wells International Concert Artist Competition (England).
Alexander has won the First Prizes at the Oxford Music Festival’s «Professional Piano Recital» Competition (England), the 2007 Dudley International Piano Competition (England) and most recently at the Norah Sande Award (2008, England).
Alexander has played in most of the main venues in the UK (including the Barbican Concert Hall, Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London). He has been featured on the Performance Channel of Sky Television and on BBC Radio 3.
Forthcoming dates in the UK include recitals and concertos in the north of England and Wales as well as concerts in Plymouth and in the Bridgewater Hall (Manchester).