Alexandra Pavlova
Supported by Club 32 donors Judy Hunt and Hugh Hallard

Russian pianist Alexandra Pavlova was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in 1992. She began her studies at Zhaniya Aubakirova’s Music School in 2001. At the age of nine she was given her first piano lessons and already, half a year later, she played her first public concert. In the following years, Alexandra won four important piano competitions in Kazakhstan, including the Audience prize in all 4 in addition to other special prizes.

In 2006, she moved to Saint Petersburg to continue her musical education at The State Conservatory’s Music Academy under Natalia Ushakova. During her studies there, Alexandra took part at various festivals and concerts organized by the the Conservatory and the Government of Saint Petersburg. In 2009, she was the only piano student of her school who was honoured with an invitation to play several concerts as both a solo and chamber music pianist, in Europe.

After successful graduating from Saint Petersburg Academy of Music, Alexandra was accepted to the Moscow State Conservatory to the class of Prof. Ruvim Ostrovsky. In addition to her studies, Alexandra attended several masterclasses with major artists of the piano wordl: Fabio Bidini, Jean Marc Luisada, Filippo Faes, Hortense Cartier Bresson, Stanislav Pochekin, Mikhail Voskresensky and Boris Petrushansky. In 2014, she successfully finished the Chigiana Academy under Prof. Liliya Zilberstein.

Since 2013, Alexandra studies at the Hochschule Fur Musik Hanns Eisler in the class of Prof. Eldar Nebolsin. Among the awards and prizes received by Alexandra in the following years include the 3rd Prize at the Hanns Eisler International Contemporary Music Competition in Berlin, the Robert Schumann prize at the Knopf International Competition in Dusseldorf, a prize at the Neapolitan Masters International Piano Competition and the Nikolai Luganski Special Award at the First International Russian Music Competition.