Melnikov's San Francisco Performances debut in 2011 performing the complete Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues was a moving and profound event, prompting SF Classical Voice to marvel at his "extraordinary array of tone colors, his intense eloquence, and his adroitly flexing tempos. Melnikov's adventurous approach... kept even the most indifferent listeners spellbound."
Alexander Melnikov graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Naumov. His most formative musical moments in Moscow include his early encounter with Svjatoslav Richter, who thereafter regularly invited him to festivals in Russia and France. He was awarded important prizes at such eminent competitions as the International Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau (1989) and the Concours Musical Reine Elisabeth in Brussels (1991).
Known for his often-unusual musical and programmatic decisions, Alexander Melnikov discovered a career-long interest in historically-informed performance practice at an early age. His major influences in this field include Andreas Staier and Alexei Lubimov. Melnikov performs regularly with such distinguished period ensembles as the Freiburger Barockorchester, Concerto Koln, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin and Orchestre des Champs-Elysees.
Together with Andreas Staier, Alexander Melnikov developed a program that sets excerpts from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (Andreas Staier, harpsichord) in musical dialogue with Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues (Alexander Melnikov, piano). Additionally, the artists recently recorded a unique all-Schubert program of four-hand pieces, which they have also performed in concert. Intensive chamber music collaborations with partners including cellists Alexander Rudin and Jean-Guihen Queyras, as well as the baritone Georg Nigl, also form an essential part of Melnikov's work.
In this program, he performs:
RACHMANINOFF: Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22, Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42 DEBUSSY: Preludes (Book II)
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