Alexander Kobrin piano “Kobrin knows how to set all the different kinds of tone colours and structures against each other to create contrast, and to illuminate tensions between light and shade, brightness and melancholy in a multiple of layers.” —Brunhild Schmelting alled the “Van Cliburn of today” by the BBC, pianist Alexander Kobrin has placed himself at the forefront of today’s performing musicians. His prize winning performances have been praised for their brilliant technique, musicality, and emotional engagement with the audience. The New York Times has written the Mr. Kobrin was a “fastidious guide” to Schumann’s “otherworldly visions, pointing out hunters, flowers, haunted corners and friendly bowers, all captured in richly characterized vignettes.” Mr. Kobrin has performed with many of the world’s great orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Verdi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Moscow Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Berliner Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, Swedish Radio Symphony, Birmingham Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Other past performances have include recitals for the Cliburn Series, the Washington Performing Arts Society, La Roque d’Antheron, the Ravinia Festival, and annual concert tours in Japan, China and Taiwan. Though widely acclaimed as a performer, Mr. Kobrin’s teaching has been an inspiration to many students through his passion for music. He served on the faculty of the Gnessin's Academy of Music from 2003 to 2010. In 2010, Mr. Kobrin was named the L. Rexford Whiddon Distinguished Chair in Piano at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University, and in 2013 he joined the renowned Artist Faculty of New York University’s Steinhardt School. Mr. Kobrin has released recordings covering a wide swath of the piano literature. His Schumann album as included into top 5 albums of the year in 2015 by Fanfare magazine. Gramophone raved about his Cliburn Competition release, writing that “in Rachmaninoff’s Second Sonata (played in the 1931 revision), despite fire-storms of virtuosity, there is always room for everything to tell and Kobrin achieves a hypnotic sense of the music’s dark necromancy.” Mr. Kobrin was born in Moscow. At the age of five, he was enrolled in the worldfamous Gnessin Special School of Music, after which he attended the prestigious Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. C Masterworks Artist 60
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