Alexei Ogrintchouk
Oboe
Alexei Ogrintchouk is one of today’s most outstanding oboists. Being a graduate of the Gnessin School of Music and the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied with Maurice Bourgue, Jacques Tys and Jean-Louis Capezzali, he combines astounding technique with virtuosity and lyricism.
Originally from Moscow, Alexei Ogrintchouk has already been performing all over Russia, Europe and Japan from the age of 13. He is the winner of a number of international competitions including the prestigious CIEM International Competition in Geneva at the age of 19. He was also the winner of the European Juventus Prize in 1999, two "Victoires de la Musique Classique" Prizes in France in 2002, the Triumph Prize in Russia in 2005 and was Borletti Buitini Trust Award winner in 2007. He has been part of the prestigious Rising Stars and BBC New Generation Artists Programmes.
Since August 2005, Alexei Ogrintchouk is first solo oboist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam under Mariss Jansons. Until then he held the same post at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Valery Gergiev - a position which he secured at the age of 20.
Alexei Ogrintchouk manages to combine orchestral playing with his ever increasing solo engagements. As a charismatic and technically brilliant soloist, he has performed concertos under the baton of conductors such as Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Fabio Luisi, Kent Nagano, Michel Plasson, Sir Andrew Davis, Roman Kofman, Daniel Harding, Stephan Deneve, Jaap van Zweden, John Neschling, Andris Nelsons, Susanna Malkki, Walter Weller, Ion Marin, Lu Jia, Gianandrea Noseda, Hubert Soudant, Martyn Brabbins and with the world's greatest orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestras of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres, Orchestre de l'Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, all BBC Orchestras, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo, National Orchestra of Belgium, Beethovenhalle Orchester Bonn, Orquesta Sinfonica de Tenerife, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Dutch Radio Kamer Filharmonie, Sinfonia Varsovia, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Moscow Virtuosi, KREMERata Baltica, Moscow Soloists, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Orchestre d'Auvergne, Europa Galante, Köln Sinfonietta, New European Strings as well as Munich, Stuttgart, Prague and with the UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestras
As a recitalist and chamber musician he is much in demand and has performed throughout the world including in the Theatre du Chatelet, Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Cite de la Musique, Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Musikverein in Vienna, Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New-York, Auditorium in Tel Aviv, Suntory Hall in Tokyo etc. He is also a frequent guest at festivals such as BBC PROMS, MIDEM, Music Festival in Colmar, International Chamber Music Festival in Lockenhaus, Verbier, Santa Cecilia, Cortona, City of London Festival, White Nights Festival, Crescendo, Svyatoslav Richter’s December Nights and Easter Festival in Russia.
His recent chamber music partners include Gidon Kremer, Radu Lupu, Thomas Quasthoff, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Bashmet, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Maurice Bourgue, Sarah Chang, Nikolai Znaider, Valery Affanasiev, Julian Rachlin, Leif Ove Andsnes, Fabio Biondi, Dmitri Sitkovetsky and Sergio Azzolini as well as the Belcea, Eben, Sine Nomine and Tokyo string quartets.
Alexei Ogrintchouk holds a post as visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London since 2001 and has given a number of master classes, for example at the Pablo Casals Chamber Music Academy in Prades and the Mahler Academy in Ferrara.
His first CD with works by Schumann was released on Harmonia Mundi "Nouveau musicians" Series to exceptional reviews. His discography includes the world premiere of the slow movement of Beethoven oboe concerto (Raptus classics), music by Britten (Record One), Skalkotas (Bis Records). He also recently recorded the Mozart Oboe Concerto with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra (PentaTone Classics).
SAISON 2009/2010
