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Alexey Glazkov

Alexey Glazkov is a pianist and composer, was born in Ulan-Ude. After graduating from music school in 1998, he enrolled in the music college in the piano and theory-composition departments graduating with honors. In 2002 he entered the piano department of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory studying with professor Pavel Egorov.

Alexey Glazkov is a prize winner at the Sergei Rachmaninoff International Competition in St. Petersburg (2003). He is a pianist whose repertoire includes not only the piano classics, but also contemporary works, among them his own compositions. He is well known as an enthusiastic performer of new music. Alexey Glazkov often participates in the most significant international contemporary music festivals in St. Petersburg such as the “St. Petersburg Musical Spring”, “Contemporary Past”, “Time of Music”, “From the Avant-garde to the Present Day”, “Sound Ways Festival”. In 2009 won the 1st prize at the composer competition of new music “Step to the left” (Saint-Petersburg), in 2012 won diploma at the First Sergei Slonimsky international composer competition. Since 2012 to the present, he is a pianist of the St. Petersburg Molot-Ensemble and toured in such countries as Finland, Poland, Germany, Norway.