Aleksei Grots
MA
Aleksei Grots studied historical performance practice and contemporary interpretation in Moscow, as well as piano in Moscow and Salzburg. He has performed internationally as a soloist and has won prizes including the Rubinstein Piano Competition. His repertoire spans works from the 17th and 18th centuries to the present day. A dedicated chamber musician, he has worked extensively with Alexei Lubimov as a duo partner and holds a position as collaborative pianist and Senior Lecturer in the Mozarteum’s Department of Wind, Brass and Percussion.
Aleksei Grots (b. 1988 in Moscow) began his musical training with Vera Khoroschina at the Moscow State Conservatory, where from 2007 he studied at the Institute for Historical Performance Practice and Contemporary Interpretation with Alexei Lubimov (piano), Yuri Martynov (historical instruments) and Konstantin Batashov (composition). In 2012 he moved to Salzburg to complete his musical studies with Jacques Rouvier at the Mozarteum University.
Alexey Grots has already been invited to internationally renowned festivals such as the "Klavier Festival Ruhr" and the Baku Contemporary Music Days. He attended masterclasses at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna and won first prize at the International Rubinstein Piano Competition in 2010. His repertoire includes works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, Ravel, Prokofiev, Bartok and Schönberg and music of the 17th and 18th centuries and the present.
Together with Alexei Lubimov he has performed several projects dedicated to the works of Schönberg, Schubert, Berg and Ustvolskaya. He has also recorded works by Denissov, Volkonsky and Batashov for an Anthology Of Piano Music By Russian And Soviet Composers. In 2011 he performed his arrangement of the Berg opera “Wozzeck” for string quartet, double bass and piano at the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival and recorded four-hand pieces by Schubert with Alexei Lubimov.