Alexander Gavrylyuk (born 19 August 1984) is a Ukrainian-born Australian pianist.

Career

Gavrylyuk's first concert performance was at the age of nine. He moved to Australia at the age of 13. In 1999 he won the Vladimir Horowitz Competition, in 2000 the Hamamatsu Competition and in 2005 the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. Gavrylyuk has held solo recitals at, among others, Wigmore Hall in London, Musikverein in Vienna, Tonhalle, Zürich and Konzerthaus Berlin. The major orchestras he has performed with include: the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He has recorded Sergei Prokofiev's five concertos with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy. In 2013 and 2014, he gave cycle performances of all four Rachmaninov concertos as well as the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, with Neeme Järvi (Orchestre de la Suisse Romande) and Bramwell Tovey (Vancouver Symphony Orchestra), respectively. Other conductors with whom Gavrylyuk has collaborated include: Herbert Blomstedt, Vladimir Jurowski, Vasily Petrenko, Osmo Vänskä, Louis Langrée, Andrey Boreyko, Vladimir Spivakov, Oleg Caetani and Yuri Simonov. As part of the 2017 London Prom season at the Royal Albert Hall he performed Rachmaninov's Third Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard to great acclaim.

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