Oleksandr Gavrylyuk

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Oleksandr Hawryljuk (2013)

Oleksandr Mykolajowytsch Hawryljuk ( Ukrainian Олександр Миколайович Гаврилю́к , international Alexander Gavrylyuk; born  August 19, 1984 in Kharkiv , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian - Australian pianist .

Education and piano competitions

Hawryljuk comes from a musical family, both parents play the accordion. He received his education at the Special School for Music in Kharkiv, where he began playing the piano at the age of seven and sang in a choir. When he first heard pictures at an exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky , his career aspiration as a pianist was clear. At the age of 12 he took part in the Vladimir Horowitz International Youth Piano Competition in Kiev and came second. At the age of 13, Hawryljuk followed his piano teacher Viktor Makarow to Sydney, Australia, where he first attended high school and then studied piano at the Australian Institute of Music. In 1999 he won first places at the Vladimir Horowitz International Youth Piano Competition and in 2000 at the International Piano Competition in Hamamatsu, Japan - the starting point for concert engagements on major stages. At the age of 17, the pianist sustained a serious head injury in a car accident, recovered within a month and was back on stage after three months. Hawryljuk has been a member of the Steinway artist group since 2003 and in 2005, at the age of 21, won the gold medal at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv-Jaffa.

Career

Oleksandr Hawryljuk (2013)

By winning the piano competitions, Hawryljuk opened the gates to the world's concert stages. He has made guest appearances at the Wiener Musikverein , the Tonhalle Zürich , the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory , the Melbourne Recital Center, the Cologne Philharmonic and was a guest at the master pianist- Concert series by the Southbank Center and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Hawryljuk gave a concert at the Hollywood Bowl , the Bravo! Colorado Music Festival in Vail , the Mostly Mozart Festival in Lincoln Center in New York City, the Ruhr Piano Festival , the Kissinger Sommer and the Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam. He has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonics , the Concertgebouw Orchestra , the Royal Scottish National Orchestra , the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Russian National Orchestra , the Vienna Symphony and the Stuttgart Philharmonic .

In 2007 the live recording Live In Recital from the Miami International Piano Festival was released in 2005 and in 2011 the recording In Recital from the Amaturo Theater in Fort Lauderdale from 2007 by Via Music. In the latter recording, the British music critic Bryce Morrison placed Gavrylyuk's recording of 9 Études-Tableaux op. 39 by Sergei Rachmaninoff among the “True greats” in the Gramophone article “Rachmaninov's Etudes-tableaux, Op 39 - which recording should you buy?”. The lecture reminded Morrison of the time of the great Russian pianists in his pointedness and emotional expression.
In 2009 Gavrylyuk recorded Sergei Prokofiev's five piano concertos with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazi for the Japanese label Octavia Records / Triton . In 2011 the recording of Rachmaninov for Brilliant Classics / Piano Classics followed : Moments Musicaux; Scriabin: Sonata No. 5; Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 , 2014 the recording Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Schumann: Kinderszenen and 2015 Brahms: Paganini Variations; Liszt: Mephisto Waltz; Tarantella; Danse Macabre; Isolde's love death . The Sacrambow label also released Gavrylyuk's recordings Moonlight and Pianism from 2001 and 2003 in 2015 .

Hawryljuk's broad repertoire focuses on the Romantic period, with a focus on works by Russian composers. In the 2013/14 season he performed his rhapsody on a theme by Paganini and the four piano concertos with the Orchester de la Suisse Romande under Neeme Järvi and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under Bramwell Tovey in a Rachmaninov cycle . In 2017 he made his chamber music debut at Carnegie Hall , New York City with Janine Jansen and the cellist Torleif Thedéen with a program dedicated to Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich and Prokofiev . In August 2017 Hawryljuk made his debut with the 3rd Piano Concerto op. 30 in D minor by Rachmaninoff at the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall , London and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard . The British music critic Anna Picard was astonished by the "ease" with which Hawryljuk mastered the demanding work in a five-star rating in The Times . “The triplets and trills were bold and fresh, the transition from happy to sadness, revealing the clarity and simplicity”.

Hawryljuk lives in the Netherlands. In addition to his concert activities, he is involved in the children's aid organization Opportunity Cambodia . Since 2006 he has been an artistic advisor at the US non-profit educational institution Chautauqua Institution, he supports the Theme & Variations Foundation, which promotes young Australian pianists, and gives master classes at universities.

Awards (selection)

  • 1999: First prize at the International Horowitz Piano Competition in Kiev in the age group from 14 to 19 years
  • 2000: First prize at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan
  • 2005: First prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition in Tel Aviv-Jaffa

Recordings (selection)

Films (selection)

  • Alexander Gavrylyuk: Live in Recital . Concert film (2005), live recording, Miami International Piano Festival from May 13th and 15th, 2005, 105 min., Production: Via Music. DVD release by Via Music, ( Summary of Via Music).
  • Alexander Gavrylyuk: In recital . Concert film (2007), live recording, Amaturo Theater, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 8, 2007, 112 min., Production: Via Music. DVD release by Via Music, ( Summary of Via Music).
  • Alexander Gavrylyuk plays Chopin live at the Wawel Royal Castle . Concert film (2010), live recording of Chopin's piano concertos with Orkiestra Aukso under the baton of Marka Mosia from the arcades of Wawel Castle , Poland July 2010, production and DVD release by Castello Grupa Twórcza and Zamek Królewski na Wawelu (Wawel Castle), ( Synopsis by Dziennik Polski).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wenneke Savenije: 'Alles draait om schoonheid'. NRC Handelsblad , June 2, 2009, accessed March 23, 2019 (Dutch).
  2. ^ Piano competitons: What do the participants think? Bachtrack, January 21, 2014, accessed on March 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Susan Chenery: Alexander Gavrylyuk. The Sydney Morning Herald , June 2, 2016, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  4. ^ Sasha has the keys to the world. The Sydney Morning Herald , December 17, 2003, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Carsten Dürer: Alexander Gavrylyuk. The way to artistic truth. Pianonews , June 2014, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Alexander Gavrylyuk. Askonas Holt, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Bryce Morrison: Rachmaninov's Etudes-tableaux, Op 39 - which recording should you buy? Gramophone , April 8, 2016, accessed March 24, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Geoffrey Newman: 'Fasten Your Seat Belts': An Interview with Alexander Gavrylyuk. Vancouver Classical Music, April 2014, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Anna Picard: Proms 37 and 38 review: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Dausgaard; Latvian Radio Choir / Klava at the Royal Albert Hall. The Times , August 15, 2017, accessed April 27, 2019 : “Gavrylyuk's ease with Rachmaninov's passagework was startling. [...] His triplets and trills were pert and crisp, the dissolves from smiles to sadness, and the clarity and quietness were revelatory. "
  10. ↑ Intermediate group 1999. Horowitz Competition, accessed on March 10, 2019 (English).
  11. ^ History. Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, accessed March 10, 2019 .
  12. ^ Past Competitions. The Arthur Rubinstein International Music Society, accessed March 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gavrylyuk, Oleksandr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gavrylyuk, Oleksandr Mykolajowytsch; Гаврилю́к, Олександр Миколайович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-Australian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkiv