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Khulani Nkabinde
ACCLAIMED Russian pianist Alexis Golovin is set to present a recital of classic works by Chopin and Liszt at the Academy of Music early next month.
The show is being organised by Alliance Francaise de Bulawayo in partnership with the Russian embassy, Performing Arts Bulawayo and Eco Logical Safaris. It will be held on the evening of February 7.
Gilmore Moyo, Alliance Francaise de Bulawayo’s cultural manager in a statement said: “Golovin dedicates much time to teaching. He is a professor at the Geneva Conservatory and some of his students have won first prizes in various international competitions.”
“His prolific discography includes works by Chopin and Schumann, Rachmaninoff’s Etudes Tableaux, works by Scriabin, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No 1, B minor Sonata and Mephisto Waltz, chamber music, and the piano concertos by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Nikolai Tcherepnin, and Rodion Shchedrin.”
Golovin is a Russian classical pianist.
He began studying the piano at the age of five with Anna Artobolevskaya at the Central Music School of Moscow and later at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he studied both the piano and musicology. He completed his studies at the Geneva Conservatory where he won first prize with distinction for virtuosity.
A prizewinner at the Casagrande competition in Terni and the Busoni competition in Bolzano, he has staged concerts in Europe, Asia, and North and South America as well as at some of the world’s most prestigious festivals.
He has played together with Martha Argerich and has given world premieres, including those of Ginastera’s second and third sonatas. He has maintained close connections with his native country and regularly performs in Moscow’s most important concert halls that include the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He also performs with the State Philharmonic Orchestra.
“Golovin has also given many master classes worldwide including at the Internationale Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg, Manhattan School of Music, Conservatory of Buenos-Aires, Conservatory of Moscow, Oxford Philomusica Summer Academy and Canton International Summer Music Academy,” said Moyo.
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